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Posts from April 2007

Cleaning ActiveRecord Sessions

We realized recently that we never setup a job to clean up our active record sessions. So this accounts for our database size growing rapidly:

mysql> select count(*) from sessions;
+———-+
| count(*) |
+———-+
| 2188080 |
+———-+
1 row in set (24.64 sec)

Derp!
Not a big deal, really, except for the size its taking up for backups. Its [...]


Quick Note on zentest 3.5

Ryan released zentest 3.5 last week, and for some reason a normal ’sudo gem update’ wasn’t picking it up. Searching remote gems for ‘zentest’ reveals why:
*** REMOTE GEMS ***
ZenTest (3.4.3, 3.4.2, 3.4.1, 3.4.0, 3.3.0, 3.2.0, 3.1.0, 3.0.0)
ZenTest provides 4 different tools and 1 library: zentest,
unit_diff, autotest, [...]


Ze Frank at Rails Conf!

Ze Frank is doing a keynote at Rails Conf!
The rest of the newly announced speakers aren’t too shabby, either.

David Heinemeier Hansson, Creator of Ruby on Rails
Dave Thomas, The Pragmatic Programmers
Avi Bryant, Creator of Seaside
Tim Bray, Co-creator of XML and Atom

Still, having ze there is simply awesome. If you’ve never seen the show, you really [...]


TurboTax vs TaxCut online

Its tax time again, which means its time to scramble to figure out the some sort of capable tax package for my increasingly complicated finance situation. Working from home doesn’t lend itself to the easiest tax situation, but I’m holding off on hiring a CPA for another year.
This year I tried both TaxCut Premium [...]