Are ActiveRecord validations worth anything?

ActiveRecord, which is core component of Rails framework (at least before Rails 3.0 become reality) provides a lot features which developers do love. Validations are one of those features. They are methods which provide easy way to check if model is valid and protect consistency our data in database. Sounds good, but this is bullshit. …

Paperclip, passenger and “not recognized by the ‘identify’ command”

If You do use awesome :) Paperclip library, and on application served by Passenger You get errors like: Avatar /tmp/stream.1170.0 is not recognized by the ‘identify’ command. most probably Passenger does not have setup environment and is missing a path. On FreeBSD identify is placed in /usr/local/bin and AFAIR this path is not included by …