What would my ideal Operating System look like? Really small minimal installation. You know, like OpenBSD. Thorough and comprehensive help pages. You know, like OpenBSD. The ability to simply administer the OS remotely. You now, like SSH on OpenBSD. Excellent, easy to configure firewall. You know, like pf on OpenBSD. Easy to configure network redundancy.… Continue reading My Ideal Operating System
Month: January 2011
The problem with renaming a model in Rails
So you’ve decided to rename a model in Rails. What could be simpler than renaming and editing a bunch of files? You make your edits in development, run migrations and so on. There’s a potential issue you might hit though. Suppose you have model Foo, which you want to modify (e.g. add a column). So… Continue reading The problem with renaming a model in Rails