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Moving a Rails app from 1.2.6 -> 2.0.2

July 5, 2008

Recently I was tasked with upgrading a working Rails 1.2.6 application to version 2.0.2. Here are the majority of issues I found and their fixes/workarounds: Old reverse_proxy_plugin = broken functional tests: The units tests were fine, but all the functional tests were broken. Something like this: post :list, { :site_id => site.id }, { :user_id => user.id ...

Responses to "benny the rock" on Zend Framework

June 20, 2008

Another misguided individual, benny, put some rather pointless opinions about Zend Framework on my blog post . I replied to them, here, in a new blog entry: > It probably took you lots of time to rant about this why not use the time more productively? In my defense, I had been coding in Rails all that day, so my increased productivity had me out ahead of the game. I...

Benchmarking Rails: Mongrel versus mod_rails

June 1, 2008

After I setup one of my Rails applications to use mod_rails yesterday, I decided today to benchmark the new setup against my old Mongrel setup. In a nutshell, I found mod_rails to be slightly faster. It certainly wasn't a huge margin of victory, but I'll take it. :) I ran these benchmark tests three times each and took the best ones. I did this to account for other tr...

Zend Framework core developers continue to dismay

May 31, 2008

So while learning Zend Framework, I realized I would need two different doctype statements in my two different view layouts, since I would be using a frameset in my admin, but then regular XHTML everywhere else. I found out pretty quickly I was unable to setup the proper logic directly in the view layout. I also noticed the buggy Zend Framework doctype() helper was allowing n...

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Zend Docs.. much suckage

May 28, 2008

Don't count on the Zend Framework documentation to ever be very accurate. Within 24 hours I've uncovered two case sensitivity issues: http://www.nabble.com/layout-content-not-rendering-to17504992.ht ml and: http://www.nabble.com/helper-%27DocType%27-not-found-to17516508. html If they can't get the simple stuff right, why on earth should anyone have any trust ...