Tag Archives: rails

Using migrations to transform data

Usually I use migrations to just add and remove columns. But today I needed to modify the database schema of a live app and should thus preserve the data already present. Although not hard implementing it revealed some pitfalls. The … Continue reading

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BackgroundRB versus Beanstalkd

This seems to be a recurring problem. Sending a lot of emails from Rails is still a bit murky. You can’t really use ActiveMailer for this because when you are trying to send 12.000 emails the request does not return … Continue reading

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