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I searched the archives and found a thread about it, but I didn''t understand: are prepared statement used by ActiveRecord on those databases that could handle them (Postgresql, Mysql, Oracle etc)? In case they are not used, are they planned? Is there a roadmap about Rails I can find somewhere?

Can I update an object without "finding" it? I mean I think that @outing = Outing.find(@params[:id]) if @outing.update_attributes(@params[:outing]) ... will select the Outing object from the db and then update it. But suppose I want to update the object without selecting it (and knowing that all the properties of my object are in "@params[:outing]"). Could I do

Hello, I''m a Java developer and I''m looking at Rails as a very interesting thing. I read the article http://theserverside.com/articles/article.tss?l=RailsHibernate and saw a couple of things that I didn''t like too much: 1) The N+1 problem This has been discussed in the thread (or should I say "flame"?) "Java people want to beat us". It seems

I''m having hard time convincing my boss that a Rails app would be better than a php one, but the fact that in php changes you make at the code are seen as soon as you modify the code is pushing him towards php. In Rails (in production mode) you have to restart the server somehow if your model has changed (am I wrong?). Hot deploy is important in our app. What I don''t understand