Boomtime Development Log – Episode 1

I remember reading about has_many_polymorphs a couple of years ago, then again last year. Each time around when I wanted some sort of polymorphic has_many :through. Each time I figured, “Eh, it’s just another couple of tables” or “I can just map them in a method in the model, there’s not that much data”. But…

You know those adjectives that come after nouns? Well, sometimes you may want to pluralize them correctly in your Rails App. I might have been able to get by with “work_in_processes”, but “bill_of_materialsses” just wasn’t going to cut it. Here’s the technique I used: # Add new inflection rules using the following format: ActiveSupport::Inflector.inflections do…

This is something that I’ve often needed to do: add a new column to the DB that has a non-null constraint, but also doesn’t have a default value. There are a some options: Forget the DB constraint and use `validates_presence_of` in the model Add a default value for the new column with non-null and then…