Category Archives: deployment

MySQL Triggers w/Rails

I recently incorporated db-triggers with a Rails app to maintain some counts that were otherwise fairly expensive to retrieve.  Rails wasn’t super-pumped about the idea (what with the “keep all the logic in the app” approach and all), but sometimes… you … Continue reading

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What Time(stamp) is it?

The app I am currently developing (in Java, not the Ruby tutorial I’ve been talking about) relies on a timestamp to report only the most recent activity to it’s clients. So, why was it not properly reporting our test data? … Continue reading

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