Archive for January, 2008
Nesting ActiveRecord transactions
1 Comment Published by peter January 24th, 2008 in active_record, ruby, transactions.I was experimenting with transactions in Rails/ActiveRecord to see what they can and what they can't do. At first it seemed I couldn't get transactions to work at all. I made sure I was using the InnoDB storage engine. I rechecked my code. But the test kept failing.
This, by the way, is the test:
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While waiting for eclipse/subversion to finish its' tasks I decided to install Did You Pass Math? (DYPM). DYPM asks the [...]
Januari 28 will be the day of the first gathering of the Amsterdam's Ruby User Group. I'd like to be there but due to the fact that at that time my wife will be over 40 weeks pregnant... I just wont...
Still, I think it's a great idea and will certainly be joining future gatherings! For [...]
Learning Ruby at the Free Online Ruby Programming Course
0 Comments Published by peter January 10th, 2008 in online_learning, ruby.A couple of weeks ago a I read about the free online Ruby course by Satish Talim. The course is aimed at people who want to start learning Ruby. I've probably passed the 'starting stage' a while ago, but was intrigued and registerd (as did over 2000 enthousiasts from all over the globe).
At the beginning [...]



















