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Daily Archives: August 7th, 2008

The Trifecta of FAIL; or, how to patch Rails 2.0 for Ruby 1.8.7

It’s an oft-stated fact that most disasters result not from a single point of failure but from a combination of failures reinforcing each other. I wouldn’t term the problem I ran into last Friday a disaster, but it certainly cost me several hours of time trying to find a workaround.

Culprit #1: Rails

Rails’ ActiveSupport added […]