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How to use a RAM / memory disk for MySQL in Rails

29 September 2007 - 2 comments

I wanted to use a RAM disk for my MySQL data files when running my tests for a Rails project. I succeeded, but it only cut 2 seconds off of my ~30 second test suite for my functional tests, and didn’t cut any time off of my unit tests. But nevertheless, here is how I [...]

Are you amazed and horrified that the Ruby standard library does not have a fold/reduce function?

5 April 2007 -

Enumerable#inject Enjoy.