Snow Giraffe Tech

The health monitor gem allows you to monitor your rails application through a single controller action. In addition to built in database and server environment checks, health monitor allows you to quickly add your customized health checks to the mix.

Been a long time. shouldn’t of left ya without a dope plugin to step to. meh. But for reals, I’ve been working way too much. Here’s a tasty sampler of some new and revived github projects:

ActiveRecord Dumper
Asset Tag Extensions
Ruby Prof Request Filters
Google Base4r extensions

ActiveRecord Dumper
script/plugin install http://github.com/blythedunham/ar_dumper
Dumper. I barely know her! I wrote this ages [...]

Join the club: Rails Devs for Data Integrity
Some ways to handle unique and foreign key violations database exceptions gracefully in rails.

The ar-extensions plugin extends ActiveRecord to help developers scale, optimize, and customize Rails interaction with the database. New ar-extensions is the ability to fine tune queries by specifying MySQL database options from ActiveRecord find and save methods.

The ar-extensions plugin, which extends ActiveRecord to help optimize interaction between Rails and the database, now provides support for MySQL INSERT SELECT functionality.