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Learn how to set up a one-to-many or many-to-many association which is entirely embedded into a...

A rails plugin to store a collection of boolean attributes in a single ActiveRecord column as a bit field.

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I cringe every time I hear about someone who has spent years writing their ‘killer app’, but still hasn’t...

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After some deliberation, we decided to implement a "schema-less" storage system on top of MySQL rather than use a...