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Random Ideas from a Rails Developer and German Historian
I just spent a few minutes in la-la-land trying to figure out when an instance variable assigned in the controller stopped showing up in the view, despite all evidence that it was getting set correctly in the controller.
The answer was that there were several conditions that would case an update action to render :action => [...]
We’ll find out. Saw this today, can’t wait to give it a try:
http://github.com/flyerhzm/rails_best_practices
A program that checks your Rails code against the “best practices”.
Over the past month I’ve been obsessed with speeding up a Rails app that I perceived to be slow (http://stopfamilyviolence.org). Requests would take half a second minimum and only 50 db queries if lucky. One I saw one at 183, I went on a mission.
Most of the work was implementing fragment caching and chasing down [...]