Simon Willison’s Weblog

cache-money. A “write-through caching library for ActiveRecord”, maintained by Nick Kallen from Twitter. Queries hit memcached first, and caches are automatically kept up-to-date when objects are created, updated and deleted. Only some queries are supported—joins and comparisons won’t hit the cache, for example.

# 28th June 2009, 3:17 pm / activerecord, cachemoney, caching, memcached, rails, twitter

Is your Rails application safe? (via) update_attributes(params[:foo]) in ActiveRecord is an anti-pattern.

# 22nd September 2008, 8:28 pm / activerecord, antipattern, rails, security