Monthly Archives: August 2006

Rails and Static Lookup Tables

8/17/2006 – 4:54 pm

Rails’ ActiveRecord provides several methods to map relationships between database tables. If you need a simple lookup table, such as the following, you’re actually looking for :has_one.

# \d person
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By jasonb | Posted in Rails | Comments (1)

Tampa Electric Died

8/5/2006 – 12:23 am

Sigh. As is seemingly usual, on a clear night I lost power. DSL is apparently still up. My old APC Back UPS Pro 1100 is still running my two servers and firewall without incident after 20 minutes. My smaller UPS lost my desktop after less than ten minutes, though I had [...]

By jasonb | Posted in Rants | Comments (0)