thechrisoshow

class Banana < ActiveRecord::Base; end

banana = Banana.new
banana.valid? #=> true

banana.singleton_class.validates_presence_of :name
banana.valid? #=> true - why did the validation not work?  

banana.class.validates_presence_of :name
banana.valid? #=> false - as we'd expect...but now...

julik

Ensure that your ~/.inputrc contains this

set convert-meta off
set input-meta on
set output-meta on

Install the REAL GNU readline from source

   $ curl ftp://ftp.cwru.edu/pub/bash/readline-6.2.tar.gz | tar xfz - && cd readline-6.2 && ./configure --enable-multibyte && make && sudo make install

josevalim

# In your test_helper.rb
class ActiveRecord::Base
  mattr_accessor :shared_connection
  @@shared_connection = nil

  def self.connection
    @@shared_connection || retrieve_connection
  end
end