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Anyone have advice for loading seed data in both regular and test environments? One of our projects has some data that is necessary to bootstrap the app into a working state and they'd like it to be in the database for all their tests as well.
EngineYard Cloud installs a weird version of JRuby. Some of the standard command line options don't seem to work. Anyone have a pointer to a good chef recipe for getting JRuby up and running on EYCloud?
Interesting Things
- Ever get a UTF-8 file with messed up encoding? If all the bytes are still in the right order, try using iconv to fix it. Telling iconv to convert from UTF-8 to UTF-8 fixed a file that had been emailed to one of our projects.
iconv -f UTF-8 -t UTF-8 es.yml > es2.yml
Interesting Things
One of our teams saw a significant (20%+) speedup on their product by switching to Amazon's Cloudfront service. They're using Paperclip and it only took about 20 minutes to switch from S3 to Cloudfront.
If you have an integer column in MySQL that does not allow NULL values and you update a row and set that column to NULL the column ends up being set to 0. This was very surprising to one of our teams.