The idea behind scrooge is both surprisingly simple and powerful: instead of forcing the developer to manually specify each attribute...

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

Store schema-less data in MySQL.

So here’s an overview of how things are going to work in Rails 3.

Ambitious Query Indexer is a Rails plugin to identify database indexes that are missing. Rather than looking at tables and...

A simple implementation of an Identity Mapper for Active Record.

They don't teach you this in college, but the fundamental theorem of the software industry is the idea that...

Just assign the existing attachment to another record: new_photo = Photo.new new_photo.image = old_photo.image Paperclip will duplicate the file when saving...