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Assuming you have Person that has_many :messages, what will it happen if it has 10000 messages? Will rails attempt to initialize @person.messages with 10000 rows from database? If that is the case, is combining finder_sql and counter_sql the common practice to avoid this? Bogdan _______________________________________________ Rails mailing list

Hi Everyone, I figured out this weekend that Ruby''s Thread implementation causes the Ruby/Event binding I wrote to completely stall and go dead. After reviewing the Ruby source and watching several strace runs, it''s clear that the Ruby Thread implementation uses select in a way that--while not being bad--just isn''t compatible with libevent. The second a thread is

Some of my earlier questions may have hinted ever so slightly in the direction that I''m trying to implement "enumerations". By an enumeration here I mean a class that has a fixed number of immutable instances, which in turn have essentially only a name and a position. Requirements I''ve tried to meet are - Enumeration instances should only be loaded once from the

If I do: script/generate controller Photo I get a controller named photo_controller. OTOH, if I do: script/generate scaffold Photo I get a controller named photos_controller. (Note that the controller name is pluralized). I realize that I''m specifying the controller name explicitly in the first case, but it seems odd to me that the scaffold command generates a pluralized