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Hi, everyone, Just wondering if someone had come up with a good way to do fuzzy searches if you use MySQL as your database (we tried switching to PostgreSQL, but that ended up adding even more problems). Ferret sounds great, but reading through the discussion it looks like we need to solve the problem of write conflicts. I just wrote a post in ruby-talk about using KirbyBase maybe to solve

I have everything working and I am really excited about learning Ruby and Rails. But whenever I access my different defs in my controller it takes ~ 5 seconds before they are returned. I am working locally so I don''t know what the issue is. System Details: Windows XP Apache 2.0.55 Ruby 1.8.2 Rails 1.0 Seth Buntin Web Resources Coordinator Kentucky Academy of Technology

Hi, I am a Rails noob. Suppose you have: --- class Animal < ActiveRecord::Base end class Mammal < Animal end class Cow < Mammal end --- I provide Animal,Mammal and Cow controllers with the scaffolding, just to test and to fill up the Animal table. I can see the "type" column getting it''s value set with the class name. So far, soo good. Now, since listing Animals

I override some Rails'' configuration options in my project, like: config.database_configuration_file = "#{RAILS_ROOT}/local/config/ database.yml" But they aren''t picked up in BackgroundRB because Rails ActiveRecord is just initialized directly in MasterWorker#load_rails_env: db_config_file = YAML.load(ERB.new(IO.read("#{RAILS_HOME}/

My application has one central database + Rails server and many distributed GUI clients. The remote clients need to read and update different collections of ActiveRecords. They also need to submit fairly demanding calculation + database update requests. Have you designed a similar Ruby application? What did you do? I''ll try to summarize the approachs I''m considering

Does anyone have an idea of the rates being charged by Rails developers (or salaries for FTEs)? I''m curious to see whether rates will become comparable to those paid to more experienced Java/.NET developer types, or if rates will be lowered by the free/open source mentality, and the possible perception that Rails makes Web development "easy." Sometimes rates are more

I noticed that ActiveSupport::CoreExtensions::Time::Calculations::ClassMethods.end_of_month() returns a new Time with the time set to 00:00:00. I expected it to return 23:59:59. Am I missing something? Should this be changed? Scott