Rails Metal has been available on Rails since version 2.3 – it’s old news. But if you haven’t used it or heard about it, you can find out more about Rails Metal on the RoR weblog and on Jesse Newland’s blog
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Don’t kill your app when using ActiveRecord in Rails Metal, release your database connections
I've been on friendfeed for almost a year now and have been fairly active on it. For those on Twitter and other media sites, here's what you are missing. http://friendfeed.com/e/ef6c06a2-9a9b-448c-ad0b-334437b0ffdf/The-Alex-Scoble-Yo-Dawg-Meme/ The conversations that you have on friendfeed just aren't possible with Twitter
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Friendfeed: Or one example of why it’s so awesome and what you are missing
I’m a heavy tabbed browsing user – I have around 30 tabs open in my day-to-day Firefox profile all the time. Since the day Firefox 3 was released, I’ve noticed Firefox progressively getting slower with this particular Firefox profile (I use a different profile for web development)
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Optimize Firefox’s memory usage by tweaking session preferences
In Beaverton and looking for a good deal on Barbies, household items, a bed, computer items, electronics, etc.? Come by my house tomorrow, Thursday, Aug 7 from 9am to 6pm or Friday, Aug 8 from 9am to 4pm. Any reasonable offer will be accepted.
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Beaverton Garage Sale – Tomorrow, Thursday 7 Aug and Friday 8 Aug
Something I noticed completely by accident today when I clicked on the titlebar of QuickTime Player today with the Cmd key held down. The “titlebar” is this thing here – I’m not sure that’s the right name for it: Anyway, if you hold down the Cmd key (aka the Apple key), a menu pops up that shows the folder hierarchy of where the currently opened QuickTime movie is in your filesystem: This works in all Mac apps that display the filename of the currently open/focused file in the titlebar
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Reveal currently open files in Mac OS X
You may have heard of it , but just in case, Living on the Edge is now going to be published on the official Ruby on Rails weblog . Big thanks to Gregg Pollack for getting me the new “gig”, and more importantly, for reviving and freshening up the content on the official Rails blog. Catch the new first edition – this one’s about the API changes since Rails 2.1 .
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Living on the Edge (of Rails) has a new home at the Official Ruby on Rails weblog
No mind-blowing changes in Rails this week prior to RailsConf – as Gregg mentioned last week in the Rails Envy podcast , it’s pre-2.1 days (Rails 2.1 will probably be released at RailsConf) so it’s pretty easy to see why. Oh and all Rails tests now pass in Ruby 1.9 after a long-standing #module_eval bug got fixed in Ruby 1.9’s trunk (see thread for more details).
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Living on the edge (of Rails) #22 – pre-Railsconf 2008 edition