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2006 Aug 23
5
validation, concurrency, and transactions
...saction. Although if this is done, perhaps it is not worth validating the model before saving it in the first place, since we would catch any errors in after_save. Is this the way that this problem is usually handled? Or am I seeing a problem where one does not really exist? Thanks, Michael McGreevy. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org To unsubscribe from this group, send...
2010 Mar 01
1
Why software fails in scientific research
...-invented? as the code writers move on to new jobs. This represents a tremendous waste of the already inadequate resources that are put into its development. We will investigate how this situation has come about, why it is important to the future of research, and what can be done about it. Robert McGreevy will draw on his extensive experience at the STFC ISIS Facility, and explain how these issues are being addressed for the benefit of research science globally. Nicholas Draper, consultant at Tessella, will then expand on this, using the example of the Mantid project at ISIS. " Tessella (www....
2006 Aug 18
1
Migration crashes when using braces to delimit blocks
Hi, I have been using a bit of ruby here and there for scripting jobs for a year or so, and more recently have started dabbling in rails. I was wondering if anyone can help me with a strange behaviour I am getting when trying to run a migration. If I delimit a block for the create_table method with braces, the migration crashes, whereas the exact same code with the braces replaced by