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I''m looking for best practices / ideas on how to refresh large external data sources. What if your rails app relies on a large data set that you get via some service and it needs to be updated periodically. For instance, lets say your rails app uses weather report and airline flight information. You can get both data sets via some feed mechanism and you would like to use data that

Courtesy of The Robot Co-op. $ yes | sudo gem install cached_model Or, you can download cached_model and memcache-client (our zippy-fast memcache library, required) from: http://rubyforge.org/frs/?group_id=1266 I don''t have the README posted for making cached_model work online yet, so here it is: = CachedModel Rubyforge Project: http://rubyforge.org/projects/rctools/ == About

It looks like cached-model is broken again under rails 1.1. Can anyone confirm? Note that the exception below indicates it''s trying to treat CachedModel as the class name of the model, rather than using the proper class name (which is Entry in this case, and the table called entries). This is a model using Single Table Inheritance and acts_as_tree, and worked just fine under 1.0 and

Hi there, I''ve got a Rails app that''s a little unusual in that it maintains a database representation of a filesystem (for an image gallery). Thus, if the filesystem is essentially ''out of date'' then the controller''s list action will end up invoking a model update (which involves a filesystem scan). I''m using sqlite3 as this app will be

Hi - Just downloaded and installed the memcache-client and cached_model gems and am trying to test it out on a development setup. I added this to my environment/development.rb CACHE = MemCache.new :c_threshold => 10_000, :compression => true, :debug => true, :namespace => ''eztrip'',

I started using robotcoop''s CachedModel class in my project but have encountered problems when using it with the acts_as_ferret plugin. It seems it doesn''t index everything in my STI model, also if I do a search from my base STI class I get a result count but no results. If I run the same search from one of the children STI models I get the appropriate results (if the information

Can any one help explain this output in my log. I have memcache-client and cached_model setup for a model City but when I run my app, this is the output I get (this is on a second pass so theoretically the data is already in the cache). MemCache Get (0.000469) active_record:City:1802387 City Load (0.001015) SELECT * FROM cities WHERE (cities.id = 1802387) LIMIT 1 MemCache Set (0.000776)

Is a find_by_sql query cached with memcached and cached_model (http://dev.robotcoop.com/Libraries/)? Looks like the answer is no. Is there a reason for this? I have a lot of very complicated querys with a lot of unions, subquerys and joins that would greatly benefit from the cache. Going through the code I can see that the find_by_sql method is changed in cached_model.rb, but it does not call

I''m looking at an application that has 30+ lookup tables. By that I mean your typical (id, description, created_on) affairs that contain locations, zip codes, contract types and what not. Things that rarely change, and are maintained by administrators. It''s well known that when you have many lookup tables in the schema, eager loading is not good enough anymore, and you need to

The new version of cached_model features bug fixes and tests! Bugs fixed: Updating a model no longer stores associations into the cache. This could cause strange, hard-to-debug bugs when an invalid set of assocations was retrieved along with a cached model. Reloading a model refreshes the cache. When CachedModel::find can''t understand query params and a single result is

Hi! I''m trying to extend ActiveRecord''s find method (Rails 1.0, Ruby 1.8.2), but I recognize a strange behaviour of the "alias_method" call. I wrote a very simple script to explain my problem: ------------------------------------------------------ module ActiveRecordExtension def self.included(base) base.extend(ClassMethods) base.class_eval do

Hi All, I am developing a RoR app for managing community information and would like to have an summary of current events and interests mailed out monthly. The tickler email would be a basic summary of items and links back to the site. I would like to schedule the email delivery dates and have the app send out email to registered users that opted for this service. Once scheduled, a monthly

Hey All ! I ended up browsing to Eric Hodel''s blog the other night, and found his entry about the new cache_model and memcache-client. Now, it looks like it''s "officially" out in the open: http://weblog.rubyonrails.com/articles/2006/01/20/caching-models-with-memcached In my application, I''ve been staying away from caching my models, and instead just doing

Can acts_as_ferret search only one of the inherit models in the hierarchy of STI models? Say you have Contents, with types articles and comments. I know that you do Contents.find_by_contents, but can you also create indexed for Comment and Articles? Thanks for you help Miguel -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

Hi list, I have problems with the as.numeric function. I have imported probabilities from external data, but they are classified as factors as str() shows. Therefore my goal is to convert the colum from factor to numeric level with keeping the decimals. I have googled the problem for a while now and kept to several advices like

Running Samba 2.2.6 on RedHat 7.2 in a Microsoft NT4 Domain, trying to create or copy a text file to a share from a MS Windows 2000 Professional workstation (client2k) gives 'Access denied' Reading the log file (level 3) for samba.client2k (not an activity I feel much comfort in doing correctly) it looks like I am being recognized as a 'guest user' which is a problem but for

I am making a browser-based game using ruby on rails and I am having trouble implementing a ranking system for my game. Each player has five skills: intelligence, creativity, strength, charisma and technological. I want the player to have a rank for each skill. The ranking I have in place right now gives the same rank if two players have the same amount of skill. SELECT COUNT(*) AS [rank] FROM

Full_Name: John P Cavanaugh Version: .99 OS: linux Submission from: (NULL) (24.116.10.99) dataset$ema12 <- EMA (dataset$Close,12) dataset$ema26 <- EMA (dataset$Close,26) dataset$MACD_fast <- dataset$ema26 - dataset$ema12 dataset$MACD_slow <- EMA(dataset$MACD_fast,9) dataset$MACD_hist <- dataset$MACD_fast - dataset$MACD_slow # This line doesnt work!!! But... if I does work if I

Hello all, GSOC is around the corner, and the LLVM projects plans to participate again this year. For those who don’t know about GSOC, students are proposing a project that they will work on for 3 months. Amongst other, one goal for LLVM is to mentor students to become good developers and also contributors to the LLVM project (or user/advocate of LLVM for building other cool projects). A key

How do I write a test which proves something like "Post :has_many Comments" and "Comment :belongs_to Post"? It doesn''t seem to be covered in "A Guide to Testing the Rails" on manuals.rubyonrails.com. Cheers, Robert. -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.