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We had an excellent tech talk on Vertebra from Ezra Zygmuntowicz and the folks at EngineYard. If you've ever been a sysadmin responsible for many boxes, you'll appreciate the awesome potential of Vertebra...
NetBeans and symlinks: a team was having problems with symlinks in SVN disappearing after a client edited the project in NetBeans. No, he was not using Windows...
Here are some tips for working with acts_as_paranoid (We have helpers for some of these in our common libraries):
Add :scope for validates_uniqueness_of
validates_uniqueness_of :user_id, :scope => :deleted_at
Add :conditions for named_scope with :joins
named_scope :friends,
:select => "users.*",
:joins => :paranoid_relation,
:conditions => 'paranoid_relations.deleted_at IS NULL',
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acts_as_paranoid isn't upgrading well as we move to newer Rails versions. What are the best alternatives?
A team was is having problems getting PHP to read php.ini...

"A team was is having problems getting PHP to read php.ini"
make sure you're editing the right one, if there are multiple copies on the machine? e.g. /etc/php.ini