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I currently have a fairly simple Rails application running on FreeBSD under Apache 1.3 and normal CGI, and the performance I''m getting is alarmingly poor. I realize CGI or WebBrick are quite a bit slower than FastCGI, and I''ll probably use one of those instead when I have the time. However, I''m just curious if CGI is really supposed to be that slow, or if

Search doesn''t seem to be working, so forgive me if I''m covering old ground here, but I''m having a difficult time figuring out how to implement a "SUM()" function using Active record. Obviously, I could just create a query, but I''d rather make it part of my active record object. Basically I have an object called "Report <

It''s not clear to me how to save data to only some of the fields of a table. To update individual fields I can do something like this: @foo = Foo.new @foo.bar = "hello!" @foo.anotherbar = "hello again" @report.save However what if I only want to save the field "anotherbar" and don''t want the final insert or save query to contain the field