Rails developers aren’t exactly known for getting their indexes right (or even at all) on their databases. Granted, databases are a tough subject, and some people and companies make their living dealing with only databases, and some only with one database (like MySQL or Oracle). If you coming to web development with no formal background in databases, and it’s all new to you, then it’s totally understandable to maybe forget about indexes initia...

A quick post for today. Want to get rid of transactions from ActiveRecord for something? Here’s a cheap way to do it. It only works for MySQL obviously, but you can roll your own if you are on postgres. I’ll make it a bit less crappy and make it a gem or something.