Some handy links from my rails conf presentation on search techniques in Rails.
The Presentation itself (pdf format) - CRUD isn’t spelled with an S: Advanced Searching in Rails (or original powerpoint format - much larger)
Railsconf Resources 8
Posted by science
on May 30, 2008
Carbon footprint
Posted by science
on May 21, 2008
“The concentration of C02 measured by scientists at the Mauna Loa Observatory in Hawaii now stands at 387 parts per million, the highest level for at least 650,000 years.”[1] “It’s getting kind of hot back here”[2]
Deep_merge: Ruby Recursive Merging for Hashes
Posted by science
on May 19, 2008
Science happily releases “deep_merge” - a ruby lib to help merging complex hash structures.
Ruby provides some nice merge capabilities in hash and array. But it rightly doesn’t give us recursive merging, because it’s too poorly defined to standardize. However, recursive merging sometimes solves problems that can’t be solved other ways. Continue reading…