February 2009
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Three changes I'd like to see to DataMapper before...
DataMapper is an excellent Ruby ORM, brought to you by (roughly) the same rock stars who built Merb and are now working on building the first production-ready version of Rails. DataMapper boasts some obvious advantages over ActiveRecord - a small core with a gem-based plugin framework, an object store (to enforce one-object-per-row within a session), and a very clever strategy for implicitly...
Why you see hundreds of "SHOW TABLES" queries when...
As part of my continuning quest to make ruby-prof a useful part of my optimization toolkit, I decided to finally investigate why, when running the profiler, I was seeing the SQL query “SHOW TABLES” output over and over, hundreds of times, in the log. And it was super-slow - over a minute to finish a request that otherwise clocked in around a second.
After digging around in ruby-prof...
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Sunspot 0.0.2 released
Finally, another release of sunspot, my library for awesome interaction with Solr in Ruby. I haven’t had much time to work on it in the past couple of months, so version 0.0.2 isn’t exactly earth-shattering. The good news is that, starting in a couple of weeks, my employers have me slated to spend much of my workday developing Sunspot, with the goal of putting it into production early...