Category Archive: ruby

Mar 11

Mysql 4.x and Rails : RELEASE SAVEPOINT issue

Today with a project using mysql 4.1.22 that I have to implement some tests, I ran this error with rails 2.3.5 and I think for 2.3.x branch. Mysql::Error: You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near ‘RELEASE SAVEPOINT …

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Oct 08

gettext 2.0.4 and rails 2.3.4

Rails 2.3.4 broke gettext_activerecord 2.0.4 Well I did not test other gems of the mutoh gettext set of libraries but here is the gulty code that breaks rails. Since Activerecord::Errors changed its implementation a bit, an error like this is raised : NoMethodError: undefined method `gsub’ for #<ActiveRecord::Error:0×00000002919738> from /home/hallelujah/Jail/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/gettext_activerecord-2.0.4/lib/gettext_activerecord/validations.rb:165:in `localize_error_message’ from /home/hallelujah/Jail/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/gettext_activerecord-2.0.4/lib/gettext_activerecord/validations.rb:112:in `block (2 …

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Sep 23

Inspectable accessors

Hey, it’s been a while I posted here. So what’s the purpose ? I commonly use script/console to debug my rails applications. Today I wanted to see the values of my custom attributes model without typing model.custom_attribute. So I took a look at ActiveRecord::Base#inspect method. and the default inspect method shows me database fields. Well, …

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Jul 24

Blocks are Proc : Les procédures Proc et les blocks en ruby.

( For non-french readers : I am not giving up writing in english … Read the next post! ) Si vous venez d’un autre langage, le terme procédure (associé au terme fonction) doit vous dire quelque chose. Vaguement …. Allez quelques connaissances (méconnaissances) tirées de ma mémoire pour poser les bases. Par exemple, en PHP …

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Jul 10

Class : to_s or not to_s ? That is the name !

Many rubyist use the method Class#to_s instead of Class#name My purpose (shared by some programmers) is that to_s is just a String representation of the Class not its name!! Imagine you want to store an ordered list of inherited subclasses as a String so you can retrieve the inheritance order of each subclass. class Parent …

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