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ActiveRecord's confusing Single Table Inheritance behavior with NULL type

bymltsy

2016-03-25

Recently I spent hours debugging an issue in a Rails project where ActiveRecord was causing MySQL errors trying to create a User object of a class at the top level of a Single Table Inheritance model structure. It turns out `.create` behaves differently based on the default value of the type field!

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How to process returned pointer structure data from Windows DLL in Ruby

byhuacat

2011-11-05

In Ruby, Call or invoke a API DLL library is easily via Win32API class, win32-api gem or other gems.…

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Ruby Lambda

bynarshlob

2010-09-30

If you've ever programmed in Ruby and have come across either a proc or a lambda, you might have …

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Starting with Ruby on Rails

byriaancornelius

2010-02-08

I recently rediscovered rails when I needed a holiday project and decided to build a management …

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Ruby is an open-source dynamic object-oriented interpreted language that supports multiple programming frameworks including functional, object oriented and imperative. It also has a dynamic type system and automatic memory management. Ruby focuses on simplicity and productivity. Ruby's market share spiked due to Ruby on Rails, a model-view-controller (MVC) framework for building web applications.