Rails is just an interface to the memcached?
Cache the Hell out Everything
90% API Requests — cache them
Read the Scaling Twitter.
Rails is just…
Posted by Dmytro Shteflyuk on under Ruby & Rails
Testing mailers with RSpec
Posted by Dmytro Shteflyuk on under Ruby & Rails
Unfortunately, RSpec does not provide helpers for testing mailers like TestUnit. But it is easy to add them to your application, and here you could find code snippet for testing mailers.
Using sub-queries to avoid multiple DB requests in Rails
Posted by Dmytro Shteflyuk on under Ruby & Rails
When I worked on Best Tech Videos with Alexey Kovyrin, we faced a problem of filtering videos by category with selecting posts categories in the same query. It was easy to solve the problem, but there is one query optimization trick exists.
Sphinx Search Engine 0.9.7, Ruby Client API 0.3.0
Posted by Dmytro Shteflyuk on under Ruby & Rails
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It’s happened! We all waited for Sphinx update and finally Andrew Aksyonoff has released version 0.9.7 of his wonderful search engine (who does not know about it, look my previous posts here and here).
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Свершилось! Мы все ждали обновления Sphinx, и вот наконец Andrew Aksyonoff выпустил версию 0.9.7 своего замечательного поискового движка (для тех, кто не понимает, о чем я говорю: посмотрите мои предыдущие заметки здесь и здесь).
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CodeColorer updated to version 0.5.1
Posted by Dmytro Shteflyuk on under WordPress
Right after publishing my previous post about WordPress plugins updates, I found that GeSHi library has been updated, therefor I have updated CodeColorer too.