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I have this assertion in my tests: assert_redirected_to :controller => ''user'', :action => ''change_password'' It fails with: response is not a redirection to all of the options supplied (redirection is <"http://test.host/user/change_password">), difference: <{:controller=>"user"}> The redirection was: redirect_to

In our app we''ve a number of singleton ruby classes that cache static data in hashes, things like string values, system config params, etc). In a webbrick environment this works ok, but we find in production we have a problem because we have 4 caches, one for each mongrel instance. This also isn''t a BIG problem, but our cache.reload() methods are kinda useless now, because we

Using the acts_as_paranoid plugin with rails 1.1.4 (model also uses acts_as_threaded and acts_as_taggable) and getting some unexplainable behavior. The following tests: assert_equal Conv.count, num assert_equal Conv.count_with_deleted, CONVS_TOTAL Produce the following SQL: SQL (0.000000) SELECT count(*) AS count_all FROM convs WHERE (( convs.deleted_at IS NULL OR convs.deleted_at

I have a common situation and would like best practice suggestions from some of you more experienced rails developers. In my DB I''ve normalized tables in a traditional manner, e.g. I have Posts which have authors stored in a Users table. My problem is when I go to show a list of Posts and I want to display the author name (e.g. post.author.name) ActiveRecord appears to do a SELECT