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The Doctor What

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Tuesday, November 09 2010
5941 SQLite3::BusyExceptions are raised immediately in some cases, despite settin... was created in Ruby on Rails
  • The Doctor What
    The Doctor What created the ticket at 9:01 PM

    This is complicated, so bear with me.

    We had a setup using multiple thin servers using SQLite3 as the
    backend. We were getting occasional SQLite3::BusyException...
Tuesday, April 27 2010
4480 Active* filenames is too long for windows usage... was updated in Ruby on Rails
  • The Doctor What
    The Doctor What commented at 8:24 PM

    So I still get these errors from other utilities, when running find, even though I've shortened the overall path significantly:

    find: ./lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/doc/...
  • The Doctor What
    The Doctor What commented at 6:11 PM

    I can confirm that I can work around the win32 problem by changing the directory path to something shorter.

    I'll check the win64 problem shortly.

    This isn't a p...
  • The Doctor What
    The Doctor What commented at 5:04 PM

    Okay, trying to create the full path via Explorer:

    Directory:
e:\checkouts\holtje\externals\rubygems\dists\1.9.1-v1\windows-i386\lib\ruby\gems\1.9.1\doc\active...
  • The Doctor What
    The Doctor What commented at 2:58 PM

    Try 2 -- Sorry, not used to bug systems that have formatting.

    win64

    Here is an example to get an error in win64. Note: ruby handles this fine in win64, this is ...
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    • Title changed from ActiveRecord filename is too long for windows usage... to Active* filenames is too long for windows usage...
    by The Doctor What at 2:55 PM

    Fudge...can I edit
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  • The Doctor What
    The Doctor What commented at 2:54 PM

    ==win64 Here is an example to get an error in win64. Note: ruby handles this fine in win64, this is an external tool.

    Using cygwin's find:
    $ find . > /dev/null ...
  • The Doctor What
    The Doctor What commented at 3:20 AM

    First you have to custom-build ruby 1.9.1 using Visual Studio 8.

    Then using that copy, install it to a directory like:
    c:\checkouts\external\ruby

    Then run "gem....
Monday, April 26 2010
4480 ActiveRecord filename is too long for windows usage... was created in Ruby on Rails
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    The Doctor What created the ticket at 7:31 PM

    When using ruby on windows built via VS8, I have a very hard time dealing with the file "cdesc-HasManyThroughCantAssociateThroughHasOneOrManyReflection.yaml" be...
Saturday, March 27 2010
1339 AR::Base should not be nuking its children, just because it lost interest was updated in Ruby on Rails
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    The Doctor What commented at 4:17 AM

    I also would like to know what the status is. At the moment, setting config.cache_classes = false is useless because you get random weird crashes that are impos...