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Index your tables people.

by on 15. Jul, 2008 in Rails

A good read on table index. http://www.railway.at/articles/2008/04/24/database-agnostic-database-ignorant Sometimes, it is easy to forget when someone or something else handles it for you. For instance, ActiveRecords. Rails does not  create foreign keys for you. It only creates the primary key. It does not impose constraint on the database level. The association is handled on the application [...]

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Note to self

by on 14. Jul, 2008 in Programming, Rails

Do not name your database column with the name ‘no’. You’ll get this error when you try to run your test ActiveRecord::StatementInvalid: Mysql::Error: Unknown column ‘false’ in ‘field list’

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