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...ses i want to keep about 10 things around, eg recent searches, new items (spanning multiple classes), referers, page views, without logging them for perpetuity. so i guess this isnt a normal queue, more like a pipe with a burning substance at one end.. my initial thoughts are 1) disable id auto-incremenet, find the oldest record out of 10, and overwrite that with the newest (doing this via normal model callbacks). or 2) use acts_as_list, and reorder all the records whenever one is added (acts_as_nested_set seems to do this, but it seems like a bit of a kludge). any other obvious and simple solu...

Hi Folks, I've a Linux server that has a disk on a Windows NT-based machine mounted via samba so that it appears as /share/pd on the Linux box. I am trying to automate a backup procedure that pushes files from the NT disk to another site as a ZIP file using scp. All is working OK, but I'd now like to make the backup 'incremental' so can anyone think of a way I can grab files off

Hi, I''m having some problems using ActiveRecord to update records in a sqlite database. This isn''t exactly as rails question, since I''m doing this initial import outside of rails, but I''m hoping someone hear might have an idea as to what my problem is. The basic problem is with the following code (which is run in a big loop) m = Movie.find_by_title_and_year