Kurt Stephens

Gah.. that should have been formatted as:

def cached_value
  (@cached_value ||= [ computed_value ]).first
end
def computed_value
  something.that.might.return....

We've used patterns like the following to allow caching of computed nil and false results:

def cached_value

(@cached_value ||= [ computed_value ]).first

end ...

The real issue is to let whatever PG client libary Rails is using do the job of quoting and unquoting data. There's no good reason for quoting rules to be handl...

gem list --remote postgres REMOTE GEMS postgres (0.7.9.2008.01.28) postgres-pr (0.5.1)

The issue is not with the postgres gem. The hacked-up test for checking...

gem list postgres LOCAL GEMS postgres (0.7.9.2008.01.28)

"\" is a valid PostgreSQL escape for a literal backslash. This causes very serious data round-trip problems.

The fix is to let the PostgreSQL client lib do the ...