Entries tagged: activerecord

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Using Named Scopes Across Models with ActiveRecord#Merge

23 May 2014

After years of working with ActiveRecord and watching it change so much, it is exciting to find new features you didn't know about. The one I discovered this week is ActiveRecord#merge. It is one of the most underused methods in ActiveRecord, due in part, to the name. It isn't necessarily clear what they mean by "merge" but it's simply a way of using a named scope on a joined model.

I ran into this exact issue in a project recently and had no idea there was a way to use scopes from joined models like this.

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Fixing Wordpress URLs When Using Rack

27 Mar 2014

Tip to fix WordPress URLs

In my last article I detailed how to run PHP through a Rack server. This works fairly well until you try to sign into the Wordpress admin section.

The problem is that Wordpress stores site URLs in the database and it will use these for some redirections. Luckily, with a few Rake tasks you can painlessly override them.

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