nathaniel bibler

January 29

December 30

You have found null^2. Oh yeah!

November 21

Steelhead Brewery Sampler

November 16

October 5

Named Scopes with PostgreSQL

When using chained named scopes that modify the :select finder option, the PostgreSQL adapter appears to give SELECT query preference to the first scope defined:

named_scope :foo, {:select => "foo.*"}
named_scope :bar, {:select => "bar.*"}

Tester.bar.foo.all #=> SELECT bar.* FROM tester...

While it seems somewhat straightforward in this example, when chaining multiple scopes, it is somewhat counter-intuitive that the first takes precedence.

September 28

Pushing to a different git remote branch

If you have the need to push a local git branch to a differently named remote branch, try this:

git push origin master:refs/heads/experimental

Where “origin” is the remote name, “master” is your local branch name, and “experimental” is the remote branch to push into.

August 18

Ignoring database.yml

When database.yml is already in the repository, but you must have a modified local copy:

git update-index --assume-unchanged config/database.yml

July 25

Snow Hill Bridge

July 2

Google Friend Connect can’t handle my awesome.

June 30

Mail can’t verify the identity of “imap.gmail.com”.