Posted in Ruby on Rails (RoR) on July 27, 2007 | No Comments »
Caching!
Caching, in the web application world, is the art of taking a processed web page (or part of a webpage), and storing it in a temporary location. If another user requests this same webpage, then we can serve up the cached version.
Loading up a cached webpage can not only save us from having to do [...]
Posted in Ruby on Rails (RoR) on July 27, 2007 | No Comments »
log rotation in Ruby on Rails is as simple as an extra line in your config/environment.rb file:RAILS_DEFAULT_LOGGER = Logger.new(”#{RAILS_ROOT}/log/#{RAILS_ENV}.log”, 20, 10.megabyte)
I put this line right BEFORE the Rails::Initializer.The above line will automatically rotate your logs when they hit 10 megabytes, and it will keep the 20 most recent logfiles.
Posted in Ruby on Rails (RoR) on July 27, 2007 | No Comments »
rcov is a code coverage tool for Ruby. It is commonly used for viewing overall test coverage of target code. It features:
fast execution: 20-300 times faster than previous tools
multiple analysis modes: standard, bogo-profile, “intentional testing”, dependency analysis…
detection of uncovered code introduced since the last run (”differential code coverage” 
fairly accurate coverage information through code linkage inference [...]
