Hi, I am Jan. This is my old Ruby blog. I still post about Ruby, but I now do it on idiosyncratic-ruby.com. You should also install Irbtools to improve your IRB.

Three little tips for slimmer Rails migrations

July 2011, ruby · gem · rails · rails2 · rails3 · plugin · hints · one-liners

Rails migrations are easy to understand and easy to write. However, you can save some unnecessary key strokes by applying these three tips :)

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The has_many_booleans Rails plugin

July 2010, ruby · gem · rails · rails2 · rails3 · plugin · activerecord

has_many_booleans is an ActiveRecord plugin which creates virtual boolean attributes for a model. When the object gets saved, the plugin transforms all attributes into a single integer, using a bitset. So you can easily add new attributes without changing the database structure.

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