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I''m building a system with two Apple RAIDs attached. I have hardware RAID5 configured so no RAIDZ or RAIDZ2, just a basic zpool pointing at the four LUNs representing the four RAID controllers. For on-going maintenance, will a zpool scrub be of any benefit? From what I''ve read with this layer of abstration ZFS is only maintaining the metadata and not the actual data on the

I have a case where I am abstracting the creation of models. After a fair bit of indirection, I eventually get around to making a .new call. I need to be able to pass params to that .new call. I know I can''t use def initialize() in an AR model (rather frustrating). So, I have found some references to after_initialize, but that doesn''t work either. I see several threads on

Hi, Is rails supposed to support referential integrity? That is rails either support to be able to ensure that when a new contact is created this can only happen if a valid suberb is associated with it, and which mechanisms of the below are supposed to do this? (a) using DB foreign key constraints information as a basis? (b) using the "has_one" line in the model file to enfore? If