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Standup 2012-08-07: Poltergeist is kinda like the devil

Mark Rushakoff
Tuesday, August 7, 2012

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  • Poltergeist – Kinda like the devil

Poltergeist is a gem that replaces capybara-webkit and handles iframes better supposedly. The unfortunate side-effect of using it is that it modifies how exception handling works even within your controller actions. This was incredibly hard to debug. We recommend not using it for a while.

  • Rails time columns always trigger change

If you have a nil time column and you set it to nil, model.changed? now returns true.

The same is true for any values which are equal.

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Mark Rushakoff

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