Starting a new Rails app? Here's my skeleton...

Not meant to be a “this is what should be done” as much as a “this is what Matt uses, based largely on community popularity, best practice, and Matt’s personal tastes.”

Take it for what it is: a point of discussion.

Of course, the skeleton of any Rails app will vary from project to project, depending on [...]

Mongo Beauty #1

Frequently, while working with MongoDB and MongoMapper, I run across an implementation of something that blows me away with its beauty. This, my friends, is one of those times.

Given: a Users collection where the users’ names are stored in an Array key called name. i.e. :name => ["Patterson", "Matt"]. It [...]

Mongosphinx with MongoDB and MongoMapper

Can that title have the word ‘mongo’ in it any more times? Well, fear not, I’m about to use it even more…

So, I had to fool around a bit to get the so-called “Mongosphinx” gem working with my app architecture. Thought it might be helpful to others to demonstrate how I did it. [...]