Try using Mongo

November 14, 2012 Rajan Agaskar

Helps

AR/PG silently not saving commits under heavy load

  • People wondered if the transaction was getting rolled back, etc, everything seemed normal, but about 1 in 5 times the record wouldn’t write after an update_attributes.

Slanger for Pusher testing?

  • Nobody has used Slanger.

Interestings

Rspec and_call_original

New with Rspec 2.12, rspec mocks now have the ability to call through to the original implementation.

example:
banana.should_receive(:split).and_call_original

asserts that banana.split was called, and also executes banana.split

Don’t commit Gemfile.lock in your gems

See http://yehudakatz.com/2010/12/16/clarifying-the-roles-of-the-gemspec-and-gemfile/

tl;dr

ACCORDING TO YEHUDA … if you are maintaining a GEM

git rm –cached Gemfile.lock
echo “Gemfile.lock” >> .gitignore
git add .gitignore
git ci -m “Remove Gemfile.lock — cf. http://yehudakatz.com/2010/12/16/clarifying-the-roles-of-the-gemspec-and-gem”

(this advice may be controversial)

AWS ELB overwrites X-Forwarded-Proto and X-Forwarded-Port

http://aws.typepad.com/aws/2010/10/keeping-customers-happy-another-new-elastic-load-balancer-feature.html

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