James

Yeah -- that makes perfect sense -- forgot that count and size actually modify the query and return a single row.

So what about my specific case with update_all...

Turns out it has nothing to do with the joins.

Animal.limit(1).count
=> 1297

Is that expected behavior?

Found this by trying to do (essentially) Animal.limit(1)...

Limit is being ignored in the following case. When calling to_sql on the ARel object, it returns the correct SQL. Then, calling that query with find_by_sql retu...

Login.where(:date => Date.today).select("DISTINCT player_id").all

As expected, this produces the following query:

SELECT DISTINCT player_id FROM `logins` WHE...

The following route should pick up any route for the application and provide params[:path].

My::Application.routes.draw do |map|
  match '*path' => 'public#go'...

Is there any reason we should need to explicitly set the namespace in the :to when we're within the namespace block? Seems like it should know about the namespa...

Josh,

Previously it provided the "admin_root_url" named route, which seems to me like a great convention as it kept everything (including the index) within the ...

Use ruby railties/bin/rails --dev to build an app from the edge source.

In Rails 2.3.x, you could do the following:

map.namespace :admin do |admin|
  admin.root :controller => "admin"
end

It appears this functionality is missing i...

I'm getting inconsistent results when using default_scope. What are its limitations? Right now I'm only trying to use it for default ordering, but it doesn't se...