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<feed xml:lang="en-us" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><title>Simon Willison's Weblog: activerecord</title><link href="http://simonwillison.net/" rel="alternate"/><link href="http://simonwillison.net/tags/activerecord.atom" rel="self"/><id>http://simonwillison.net/</id><updated>2009-06-28T15:17:30+00:00</updated><author><name>Simon Willison</name></author><entry><title>cache-money</title><link href="https://simonwillison.net/2009/Jun/28/cachemoney/#atom-tag" rel="alternate"/><published>2009-06-28T15:17:30+00:00</published><updated>2009-06-28T15:17:30+00:00</updated><id>https://simonwillison.net/2009/Jun/28/cachemoney/#atom-tag</id><summary type="html">
    
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://github.com/nkallen/cache-money/tree/master"&gt;cache-money&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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.


    &lt;p&gt;Tags: &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/activerecord"&gt;activerecord&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/cachemoney"&gt;cachemoney&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/caching"&gt;caching&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/memcached"&gt;memcached&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/rails"&gt;rails&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/twitter"&gt;twitter&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;



</summary><category term="activerecord"/><category term="cachemoney"/><category term="caching"/><category term="memcached"/><category term="rails"/><category term="twitter"/></entry><entry><title>Is your Rails application safe?</title><link href="https://simonwillison.net/2008/Sep/22/rails/#atom-tag" rel="alternate"/><published>2008-09-22T20:28:12+00:00</published><updated>2008-09-22T20:28:12+00:00</updated><id>https://simonwillison.net/2008/Sep/22/rails/#atom-tag</id><summary type="html">
    
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://railspikes.com/2008/9/22/is-your-rails-application-safe-from-mass-assignment"&gt;Is your Rails application safe?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
update_attributes(params[:foo]) in ActiveRecord is an anti-pattern.

    &lt;p&gt;&lt;small&gt;&lt;/small&gt;Via &lt;a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=311345"&gt;news.ycombinator.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/small&gt;&lt;/p&gt;


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