2009-01-24 - Today’s Ruby/Rails Reading
More stuff moved into rack middleware, script/performance/request deprecated and replaced by a plugin, ActionController::Base#session_enabled? also deprecated and local caching refactored to make use of any store.
Scraping Google Trends with Mechanize and Hpricot
Another scraper from the biodegradable geek. This one scrapes google trends using mechanize, hpricot and tempfile or will when it is done - a bunch of it is incomplete with implementme comments.
What I’ve Been Up To Of Late - A new Ruby iCalendar Library
Interesting description of the difficulties of an in-progress ruby iCal implementation involving time zones and recurring events
Simple tip for suppressiing irb output - append ;0 to the talkative line.
Mass inserting data in Rails without killing your performance
A comparison with benchmarks of various methods of mass loading data into your DB. ActiveRecord, ActiveRecord with transactions, Raw SQL, Single Mass Insert and ActiveRecord extensions.
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