Luke Melia

AFAIK, this was already applied: http://github.com/rails/rails/commit/60122e81a3504ed171a761573ed16c... and http://github.com/rails/rails/commit/54984f0f245cd...

I never got anywhere on the Rails 3 compatible approach due to lack of time. We're upgrading our app to Rails 3 soonish, so hopefully I can dig in and take a cr...

Agreed, Jose. When I ran into this problem, I initially set out to unify the interfaces, but quickly saw that the internals are so different that it was not an ...

I think the common use case is building an API for your web app that supports output in either xml or json. Ideally, you could use the same types of options bot...

We have about 300 models in our app. About a third of them are subclasses. I started looking at this today because these queries popped up in some New Relic tra...

@foca, yep, my proposed solution actually takes advantage of that "feature" of class variables. It uses a single hash for the entire inheritance hierarchy, with...

ActiveRecord looks up the columns for a table each time it loads a class using that table
With STI, this means repeated calls to 'SHOW FIELDS FROM table_name' f...

I'll take a look at implementing on top of rack-mount. Handling (1) on 2.x will require major surgery the routing engine that seems dubious given a different ap...

If I have a class Project and a subclass SpecialProject, but only map.resources :projects defined in routes, it seems natural that polymorphic_url(@special_proj...

Our app uses CookieStore but I noticed that ActiveRecord::SessionStore was still being loaded (with the DB reflection overhead associated with loading an AR cla...