Irene

I agree with you that perhaps an id of joe_m_black would work better but we opted to use usernames instead of ids for friendlier URLs (I should have specified t...

Lets say I allow my user ids to match the id regular expression required below and I define the following route structure in my routes.rb:

map.resources :user...

Same with the drop database:

def drop_database(name) #:nodoc:
  execute "DROP DATABASE IF EXISTS #{name}"
end

Should be:

def drop_database(name) #:nodoc:
 ...