Postgres doesn’t seem to handle imports very well. At least not as gracefully as MySQL. When the primary key sequence of a table gets out of whack, you can reset it via psql directly: SELECT setval(‘table_name_id_seq’, (SELECT MAX(id) FROM table_name)+1); But that doesn’t see to solve the problem for my rails application. This does: ActiveRecord::Base.connection.reset_pk_sequence!(‘table_name’) [...]

First deployment on a brand new machine is never without a little frustration, eh? If you see this error, be sure to change the ownership of your environment.rb file to ‘www-data’.

If you aren’t analyzing your traffic, you’re crazy, especially since such a powerful and free solution exists in the form of Google analytics. I’m blown away by the depths of the reporting. I’ve just scratched the surface of what’s available it seems, too. We have an unlimited number of sub domains that we wanted to [...]