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Re: Light as a Feather

edraper — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 17:59:48 -0000

You know it dude!

Re: Light as a Feather

MIchael Leung — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 17:57:42 -0000

Thanks for the mention brother, and great job on Feather so far. We're going to take the blogosphere by storm with this one!

Re: Adventures in Merb

edraper — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 11:34:38 -0000

Absolutely, you're right - however as a Rails guy looking into Merb, one of the most interesting aspects is it's performance, and it's ability to handle requests in a thread-safe manner, improving things like file uploads. Unfortunately, with the "mutex" config option turned off, ActiveRecord isn't usable with Merb currently, and so the natural choice for me, and anyone else interested in getting the best out of Merb at the minute, is probably going to be DataMapper as far as I can see. So the issues I came across, while mostly related to DataMapper, are pertinent really to the whole Merb experience.

However besides what I mentioned in the post, I haven't really run into too many other problems - I definitely think that over time Merb has the potential to become a really powerful framework.

Re: Adventures in Merb

Michael Leung — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 11:22:56 -0000

Frazer, I haven't really had that many issues with DataMapper save for the lack of non-destructive migrations. I actually am starting to prefer the syntax of DataMapper to AR. In fact I've always like the Fowler's DataMapper design pattern more than ActiveRecord anyhow.

What kind of problems have you run into use it?

Re: Adventures in Merb

Frazer — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 11:12:54 -0000

most of your issues here are with Datamapper - you may be best to start with AR and sql sessions and then you'll find Merb to be quite stable!!

Re: Tyred

edraper — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 17:22:25 -0000

Thanks for your comment. Ah I guess it's a hazard of the job for you then! But yeah, I think that had the bolt not gone in completely straight, it could have shredded the tyre, and that certainly wouldn't have been nice to deal with. Fairly lucky really.

I've tried to find out today who is responsible for sweeping the local roads, to see how often they are swept (the road I picked the bolt up on is one of the main routes on the way to the local dump for a lot of the local area, so should be swept more regularly than most). I was told that no-one has a responsibility for sweeping the road itself, only the gutter/verge. I was also told that this is "where most of the stuff in the road ends up anyway" - except for the bolt that ended up in my tyre of course!

Re: Tyred

Mitchell Blankenship — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 05:06:50 -0000

My wife and I work for a RV manufacturer. We pick up screws and bolts on a daily basis. The local tire place knows us by name as a matter of fact and often times doesn't charge us for small repairs. I feel your pain as I have two tires on my SUV right now. One had a 3" self tapping screw in it and the other had two of the same screws. It's good though that it didn't completely blow and make the car uncontrollable.

Re: Updates

edraper — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 04:50:49 -0000

threaded reply, nice!

Re: Updates

edraper — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 04:49:36 -0000

This is a test comment, to test the Disqus comment stuff.