New inflectors in Rails 3.0.5 may break your ActiveRecord models

I decided to write on this in the hope it will help someone else.  I lost too much time on this problem. I have a Rails application that I migrated from 3.0.3 to 3.0.9.  Suddenly, all my tests were failing on my Media model with this error: ActiveRecord::StatementInvalid: Could not find table ‘media’ I went [...]

Rails 1.2.x + Ruby 1.8.6 + OS X Lion: 10 easy steps

One of my most popular blog posts is this one, where I explain how you can have an old Rails application running on Snow Leopard. Well now that Lion is out, it’s time to update and again make sure our old projects are still maintainable (yes, I have customers that don’t need to move to [...]