Living on the edge (of Rails) #18
April 27, 2008
This week’s report covers changes from 21 Apr 2008 to 27 Apr 2008 (the day the corresponding Rails Envy podcast was recorded).
Not much interesting to report this week - there were mostly a bunch of bugfixes and Ruby 1.8.7-compatibility commits.
Introduce ActiveResource::Base.timeout and rescuing from Timeout::Error in ActiveResource::Connection
These are 2 changes that I’d talked about earlier this week so I won’t repeat myself - take a read through ActiveResource timeouts and why it matters.
Smart integer datatype for the MySQL adapter in migrations
The MySQL adapter in Rails now maps the integer column type in your migrations to either smallint, int, or bigint depending on the :limit option.
This means that a migration like this:
def self.up
create_table :searches do |t|
t.integer :foo, :limit => 2
endwill create your foo column as a smallint(2) MySQL datatype (instead of int(2) before). (More information MySQL numeric datatypes.)
Credit goes to DHH for this patch.
Related changeset: http://github.com/rails/rails/commit/a37546517dad9f6d9a7de6e1dba4d960909d71e8
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Posted by: labria on April 27, 2008 7pm