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  • Fastest way to calculate a 128-bit integer modulo a 64-bit integer

    - by Paul Baker
    I have a 128-bit unsigned integer A and a 64-bit unsigned integer B. What's the fastest way to calculate A % B - that is the (64-bit) remainder from dividing A by B? I'm looking to do this in either C or assembly language, but I need to target the 32-bit x86 platform. This unfortunately means that I cannot take advantage of compiler support for 128-bit integers, nor of the x64 architecture's ability to perform the required operation in a single instruction.

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  • What is the difference between an Abstract Syntax Tree and a Concrete Syntax Tree?

    - by Jason Baker
    I've been reading a bit about how interpreters/compilers work, and one area where I'm getting confused is the difference between an AST and a CST. My understanding is that the parser makes a CST, hands it to the semantic analyzer which turns it into an AST. However, my understanding is that the semantic analyzer simply ensures that rules are followed. I don't really understand why it would actually make any changes to make it abstract rather than concrete. Is there something that I'm missing about the semantic analyzer, or is the difference between an AST and CST somewhat artificial?

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  • Programmer productivity by programming language?

    - by Jason Baker
    In code complete, there's a nice table listing how productive a programmer is depending on language. Jeff Atwood has a nice blog post about it. This chart is at least 4 years old by now. I'm curious: have there been any more recent studies done on this? (insert standard anti-flamewar boilerplate here... we're all adults) Update: I appreciate everyone's opinions on the subject and whether or not this is a relevant question or not. But that's not really what I'm asking for. I'm wanting any studies on the subject. I'm inclined to agree with most of the opinions posted thus far, but I'd like to see if there's any research to back that up. And I'm also aware that choice of programming language is a complicated subject that depends on other factors like developer familiarity. To me, this is all the more reason to have these kinds of discussions backed by research. Also, thanks for the link, Robert Gamble.

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  • Best way to learn SQL Server

    - by Jason Baker
    So I'm getting a new job working with databases (Microsoft SQL Server to be precise). I know nothing about SQL much less SQL Server. They said they'd train me, but I want to take some initiative to learn about it on my own to be ahead. Where's the best place to start (tutorials, books, etc)? I want to learn more about the SQL language moreso than any of the fancy point and click stuff.

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  • Significant figures in the decimal module

    - by Jason Baker
    So I've decided to try to solve my physics homework by writing some python scripts to solve problems for me. One problem that I'm running into is that significant figures don't always seem to come out properly. For example this handles significant figures properly: from decimal import Decimal >>> Decimal('1.0') + Decimal('2.0') Decimal("3.0") But this doesn't: >>> Decimal('1.00') / Decimal('3.00') Decimal("0.3333333333333333333333333333") So two questions: Am I right that this isn't the expected amount of significant digits, or do I need to brush up on significant digit math? Is there any way to do this without having to set the decimal precision manually? Granted, I'm sure I can use numpy to do this, but I just want to know if there's a way to do this with the decimal module out of curiosity.

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  • Why is Oracle using a skip scan for this query?

    - by Jason Baker
    Here's the tkprof output for a query that's running extremely slowly (WARNING: it's long :-) ): SELECT mbr_comment_idn, mbr_crt_dt, mbr_data_source, mbr_dol_bl_rmo_ind, mbr_dxcg_ctl_member, mbr_employment_start_dt, mbr_employment_term_dt, mbr_entity_active, mbr_ethnicity_idn, mbr_general_health_status_code, mbr_hand_dominant_code, mbr_hgt_feet, mbr_hgt_inches, mbr_highest_edu_level, mbr_insd_addr_idn, mbr_insd_alt_id, mbr_insd_name, mbr_insd_ssn_tin, mbr_is_smoker, mbr_is_vip, mbr_lmbr_first_name, mbr_lmbr_last_name, mbr_marital_status_cd, mbr_mbr_birth_dt, mbr_mbr_death_dt, mbr_mbr_expired, mbr_mbr_first_name, mbr_mbr_gender_cd, mbr_mbr_idn, mbr_mbr_ins_type, mbr_mbr_isreadonly, mbr_mbr_last_name, mbr_mbr_middle_name, mbr_mbr_name, mbr_mbr_status_idn, mbr_mpi_id, mbr_preferred_am_pm, mbr_preferred_time, mbr_prv_innetwork, mbr_rep_addr_idn, mbr_rep_name, mbr_rp_mbr_id, mbr_same_mbr_ins, mbr_special_needs_cd, mbr_timezone, mbr_upd_dt, mbr_user_idn, mbr_wgt, mbr_work_status_idn FROM (SELECT /*+ FIRST_ROWS(1) */ mbr_comment_idn, mbr_crt_dt, mbr_data_source, mbr_dol_bl_rmo_ind, mbr_dxcg_ctl_member, mbr_employment_start_dt, mbr_employment_term_dt, mbr_entity_active, mbr_ethnicity_idn, mbr_general_health_status_code, mbr_hand_dominant_code, mbr_hgt_feet, mbr_hgt_inches, mbr_highest_edu_level, mbr_insd_addr_idn, mbr_insd_alt_id, mbr_insd_name, mbr_insd_ssn_tin, mbr_is_smoker, mbr_is_vip, mbr_lmbr_first_name, mbr_lmbr_last_name, mbr_marital_status_cd, mbr_mbr_birth_dt, mbr_mbr_death_dt, mbr_mbr_expired, mbr_mbr_first_name, mbr_mbr_gender_cd, mbr_mbr_idn, mbr_mbr_ins_type, mbr_mbr_isreadonly, mbr_mbr_last_name, mbr_mbr_middle_name, mbr_mbr_name, mbr_mbr_status_idn, mbr_mpi_id, mbr_preferred_am_pm, mbr_preferred_time, mbr_prv_innetwork, mbr_rep_addr_idn, mbr_rep_name, mbr_rp_mbr_id, mbr_same_mbr_ins, mbr_special_needs_cd, mbr_timezone, mbr_upd_dt, mbr_user_idn, mbr_wgt, mbr_work_status_idn, ROWNUM AS ora_rn FROM (SELECT mbr.comment_idn AS mbr_comment_idn, mbr.crt_dt AS mbr_crt_dt, mbr.data_source AS mbr_data_source, mbr.dol_bl_rmo_ind AS mbr_dol_bl_rmo_ind, mbr.dxcg_ctl_member AS mbr_dxcg_ctl_member, mbr.employment_start_dt AS mbr_employment_start_dt, mbr.employment_term_dt AS mbr_employment_term_dt, mbr.entity_active AS mbr_entity_active, mbr.ethnicity_idn AS mbr_ethnicity_idn, mbr.general_health_status_code AS mbr_general_health_status_code, mbr.hand_dominant_code AS mbr_hand_dominant_code, mbr.hgt_feet AS mbr_hgt_feet, mbr.hgt_inches AS mbr_hgt_inches, mbr.highest_edu_level AS mbr_highest_edu_level, mbr.insd_addr_idn AS mbr_insd_addr_idn, mbr.insd_alt_id AS mbr_insd_alt_id, mbr.insd_name AS mbr_insd_name, mbr.insd_ssn_tin AS mbr_insd_ssn_tin, mbr.is_smoker AS mbr_is_smoker, mbr.is_vip AS mbr_is_vip, mbr.lmbr_first_name AS mbr_lmbr_first_name, mbr.lmbr_last_name AS mbr_lmbr_last_name, mbr.marital_status_cd AS mbr_marital_status_cd, mbr.mbr_birth_dt AS mbr_mbr_birth_dt, mbr.mbr_death_dt AS mbr_mbr_death_dt, mbr.mbr_expired AS mbr_mbr_expired, mbr.mbr_first_name AS mbr_mbr_first_name, mbr.mbr_gender_cd AS mbr_mbr_gender_cd, mbr.mbr_idn AS mbr_mbr_idn, mbr.mbr_ins_type AS mbr_mbr_ins_type, mbr.mbr_isreadonly AS mbr_mbr_isreadonly, mbr.mbr_last_name AS mbr_mbr_last_name, mbr.mbr_middle_name AS mbr_mbr_middle_name, mbr.mbr_name AS mbr_mbr_name, mbr.mbr_status_idn AS mbr_mbr_status_idn, mbr.mpi_id AS mbr_mpi_id, mbr.preferred_am_pm AS mbr_preferred_am_pm, mbr.preferred_time AS mbr_preferred_time, mbr.prv_innetwork AS mbr_prv_innetwork, mbr.rep_addr_idn AS mbr_rep_addr_idn, mbr.rep_name AS mbr_rep_name, mbr.rp_mbr_id AS mbr_rp_mbr_id, mbr.same_mbr_ins AS mbr_same_mbr_ins, mbr.special_needs_cd AS mbr_special_needs_cd, mbr.timezone AS mbr_timezone, mbr.upd_dt AS mbr_upd_dt, mbr.user_idn AS mbr_user_idn, mbr.wgt AS mbr_wgt, mbr.work_status_idn AS mbr_work_status_idn FROM mbr JOIN mbr_identfn ON mbr.mbr_idn = mbr_identfn.mbr_idn WHERE mbr_identfn.mbr_idn = mbr.mbr_idn AND mbr_identfn.identfd_type = :identfd_type_1 AND mbr_identfn.identfd_number = :identfd_number_1 AND mbr_identfn.entity_active = :entity_active_1) WHERE ROWNUM <= :ROWNUM_1) WHERE ora_rn > :ora_rn_1 call count cpu elapsed disk query current rows ------- ------ -------- ---------- ---------- ---------- ---------- ---------- Parse 9936 0.46 0.49 0 0 0 0 Execute 9936 0.60 0.59 0 0 0 0 Fetch 9936 329.87 404.00 0 136966922 0 0 ------- ------ -------- ---------- ---------- ---------- ---------- ---------- total 29808 330.94 405.09 0 136966922 0 0 Misses in library cache during parse: 0 Optimizer mode: FIRST_ROWS Parsing user id: 36 (JIVA_DEV) Rows Row Source Operation ------- --------------------------------------------------- 0 VIEW (cr=102 pr=0 pw=0 time=2180 us) 0 COUNT STOPKEY (cr=102 pr=0 pw=0 time=2163 us) 0 NESTED LOOPS (cr=102 pr=0 pw=0 time=2152 us) 0 INDEX SKIP SCAN IDX_MBR_IDENTFN (cr=102 pr=0 pw=0 time=2140 us)(object id 341053) 0 TABLE ACCESS BY INDEX ROWID MBR (cr=0 pr=0 pw=0 time=0 us) 0 INDEX UNIQUE SCAN PK_CLAIMANT (cr=0 pr=0 pw=0 time=0 us)(object id 334044) Rows Execution Plan ------- --------------------------------------------------- 0 SELECT STATEMENT MODE: HINT: FIRST_ROWS 0 VIEW 0 COUNT (STOPKEY) 0 NESTED LOOPS 0 INDEX MODE: ANALYZED (SKIP SCAN) OF 'IDX_MBR_IDENTFN' (INDEX (UNIQUE)) 0 TABLE ACCESS MODE: ANALYZED (BY INDEX ROWID) OF 'MBR' (TABLE) 0 INDEX MODE: ANALYZED (UNIQUE SCAN) OF 'PK_CLAIMANT' (INDEX (UNIQUE)) ******************************************************************************** Based on my reading of Oracle's documentation of skip scans, a skip scan is most useful when the first column of an index has a low number of unique values. The thing is that the first index of this column is a unique primary key. So am I correct in assuming that a skip scan is the wrong thing to do here? Also, what kind of scan should it be doing? Should I do some more hinting for this query? EDIT: I should also point out that the query's where clause uses the columns in IDX_MBR_IDENTFN and no columns other than what's in that index. So as far as I can tell, I'm not skipping any columns.

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  • (partial apply str) and apply-str in clojure's ->

    - by Jason Baker
    If I do the following: user=> (-> ["1" "2"] (partial apply str)) #<core$partial__5034$fn__5040 clojure.core$partial__5034$fn__5040@d4dd758> ...I get a partial function back. However, if I bind it to a variable: user=> (def apply-str (partial apply str)) #'user/apply-str user=> (-> ["1" "2" "3"] apply-str) "123" ...the code works as I intended it. I would assume that they are the same thing, but apparently that isn't the case. Can someone explain why this is to me?

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  • When should I use git pull --rebase?

    - by Jason Baker
    I know of some people who use git pull --rebase by default and others who insist never to use it. I believe I understand the difference between merging and rebasing, but I'm trying to put this in the context of git pull. Is it just about not wanting to see lots of merge commit messages? Or are there other issues?

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  • Fluent NHibermate and Polymorphism and a Newbie!

    - by Andy Baker
    I'm a fluent nhibernate newbie and I'm struggling mapping a hierarchy of polymorhophic objects. I've produced the following Model that recreates the essence of what I'm doing in my real application. I have a ProductList and several specialised type of products; public class MyProductList { public virtual int Id { get; set; } public virtual string Name {get;set;} public virtual IList<Product> Products { get; set; } public MyProductList() { Products = new List<Product>(); } } public class Product { public virtual int Id { get; set; } public virtual string ProductDescription {get;set;} } public class SizedProduct : Product { public virtual decimal Size {get;set;} } public class BundleProduct : Product { public virtual Product BundleItem1 {get;set;} public virtual Product BundleItem2 {get;set;} } Note that I have a specialised type of Product called BundleProduct that has two products attached. I can add any of the specialised types of product to MyProductList and a bundle Product can be made up of any of the specialised types of product too. Here is the fluent nhibernate mapping that I'm using; public class MyListMap : ClassMap<MyList> { public MyListMap() { Id(ml => ml.Id); Map(ml => ml.Name); HasManyToMany(ml => ml.Products).Cascade.All(); } } public class ProductMap : ClassMap<Product> { public ProductMap() { Id(prod => prod.Id); Map(prod => prod.ProductDescription); } } public class SizedProductMap : SubclassMap<SizedProduct> { public SizedProductMap() { Map(sp => sp.Size); } } public class BundleProductMap : SubclassMap<BundleProduct> { public BundleProductMap() { References(bp => bp.BundleItem1).Cascade.All(); References(bp => bp.BundleItem2).Cascade.All(); } } I haven't configured have any reverse mappings, so a product doesn't know which Lists it belongs to or which bundles it is part of. Next I add some products to my list; MyList ml = new MyList() { Name = "Example" }; ml.Products.Add(new Product() { ProductDescription = "PSU" }); ml.Products.Add(new SizedProduct() { ProductDescription = "Extension Cable", Size = 2.0M }); ml.Products.Add(new BundleProduct() { ProductDescription = "Fan & Cable", BundleItem1 = new Product() { ProductDescription = "Fan Power Cable" }, BundleItem2 = new SizedProduct() { ProductDescription = "80mm Fan", Size = 80M } }); When I persist my list to the database and reload it, the list itself contains the items I expect ie MyList[0] has a type of Product, MyList[1] has a type of SizedProduct, and MyList[2] has a type of BundleProduct - great! If I navigate to the BundleProduct, I'm not able to see the types of Product attached to the BundleItem1 or BundleItem2 instead they are always proxies to the Product - in this example BundleItem2 should be a SizedProduct. Is there anything I can do to resove this either in my model or the mapping? Thanks in advance for your help.

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  • Strong name validation failed on VB.NET Assembly

    - by Matt Baker
    I have a VB.Net 1.1 application works just fine after compiling in Visual Studio. However, I want to use ILMerge to combine all the referenced assemblies into a single executable just to make it easier to move around. After I send it through ILMerge and try to run it I get the error "Strong name validation failed for .exe" ..... But none of my stuff is strong named! I saw this post here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/403731/strong-name-validation-failed and tried running it through 'sn.exe -Vr .exe' but that gives me this error: ".exe does not represent a strongly named assembly" Has anyone else had this problem before? How do I fix it?

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  • How do I introspect things in Ruby?

    - by Jason Baker
    For instance, in Python, I can do things like this if I want to get all attributes on an object: >>> import sys >>> dir(sys) ['__displayhook__', '__doc__', '__excepthook__', '__name__', '__package__', '__stderr__', '__stdin__', '__stdout__', '_clear_type_cache', '_current_frames', '_getframe', 'api_version', 'argv', 'builtin_module_names', 'byteorder', 'call_tracing', 'callstats', 'copyright', 'displayhook', 'dont_write_bytecode', 'exc_clear', 'exc_info', 'exc_type', 'excepthook', 'exec_prefix', 'executable', 'exit', 'flags', 'float_info', 'getcheckinterval', 'getdefaultencoding', 'getdlopenflags', 'getfilesystemencoding', 'getprofile', 'getrecursionlimit', 'getrefcount', 'getsizeof', 'gettrace', 'hexversion', 'maxint', 'maxsize', 'maxunicode', 'meta_path', 'modules', 'path', 'path_hooks', 'path_importer_cache', 'platform', 'prefix', 'ps1', 'ps2', 'py3kwarning', 'pydebug', 'setcheckinterval', 'setdlopenflags', 'setprofile', 'setrecursionlimit', 'settrace', 'stderr', 'stdin', 'stdout', 'subversion', 'version', 'version_info', 'warnoptions'] Or if I want to view the documentation of something, I can use the help function: >>> help(str) Is there any way to do similar things in Ruby?

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  • HTTP 1.0 vs 1.1

    - by Jason Baker
    Could somebody give me a brief overview of the differences between HTTP 1.0 and HTTP 1.1? I've spent some time with both of the RFCs, but haven't been able to pull out a lot of difference between them. Wikipedia says this: HTTP/1.1 (1997-1999) Current version; persistent connections enabled by default and works well with proxies. Also supports request pipelining, allowing multiple requests to be sent at the same time, allowing the server to prepare for the workload and potentially transfer the requested resources more quickly to the client. But that doesn't mean a lot to me. I realize this is a somewhat complicated subject, so I'm not expecting a full answer, but can someone give me a brief overview of the differences at a bit lower level? By this I mean that I'm looking for the info I would need to know to implement either an HTTP server or application. I realize that this can be a somewhat complicated subject (based on what I know about HTTP as of right now), so I'm not necessarily looking for a full answer. I'm really more looking for a nudge in the right direction so that I can figure it out on my own.

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  • Which CouchDB API to use for Rails?

    - by Matt Baker
    I am currently investigating possible applications of CouchDB on my current project (written in Rails) and would like to get some feedback from people who have actually used these APIs. Which would you recommend and why? ActiveCouch CouchFoo CouchRest CouchRest-Rails CouchPotato

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  • Am I immoral for using a variable name that differs from its type only by case?

    - by Jason Baker
    For instance, take this piece of code: var person = new Person(); or for you Pythonistas: person = Person() I'm told constantly how bad this is, but have yet to see an example of the immorality of these two lines of code. To me, person is a Person and trying to give it another name is a waste of time. I suppose in the days before syntax highlighting, this would have been a big deal. But these days, it's pretty easy to tell a type name apart from a variable name. Heck, it's even easy to see the difference here on SO. Or is there something I'm missing? If so, it would be helpful if you could provide an example of code that causes problems.

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  • socket.shutdown vs socket.close

    - by Jason Baker
    I recently saw a bit of code that looked like this (with sock being a socket object of course): sock.shutdown(socket.SHUT_RDWR) sock.close() What exactly is the purpose of calling shutdown on the socket and then closing it? If it makes a difference, this socket is being used for non-blocking IO.

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  • Is information a subset of data?

    - by Jason Baker
    I apologize as I don't know whether this is more of a math question that belongs on mathoverflow or if it's a computer science question that belongs here. That said, I believe I understand the fundamental difference between data, information, and knowledge. My understanding is that information carries both data and meaning. One thing that I'm not clear on is whether information is data. Is information considered a special kind of data, or is it something completely different?

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  • Can I make fast forwarding be off by default in git?

    - by Jason Baker
    I can't really ever think of a time when I would use git merge rather than git rebase and not want to have a commit show up. Is there any way to configure git to have fast forwarding off by default? The fact that there's an --ff option would seem to imply that there's a way, but I can't seem to find it in the documentation.

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  • Explaining persistent data structures in simple terms

    - by Jason Baker
    I'm working on a library for Python that implements some persistent data structures (mainly as a learning exercise). However, I'm beginning to learn that explaining persistent data structures to people unfamiliar with them can be difficult. Can someone help me think of an easy (or at least the least complicated) way to describe persistent data structures to them? I've had a couple of people tell me that the documentation that I have is somewhat confusing. (And before anyone asks, no I don't mean persistent data structures as in persisted to the file system. Google persistent data structures if you're unclear on this.)

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  • Is there anyway to enable MultiSelect in the StyledTextCtrl

    - by John Baker
    I've noticed that the StyledTextControl (Scintilla basically) in wxWidgets has a great feature that allows multi-selections of text, just like TextMate. However wxRuby doesn't seem to have the function calls to support that feature. I'm wonder if there is a way to enable it or if there might be a way I could rewrite that wrapper to include that function. It seems strange that they would purposely omit that since they are seemingly pretty exhaustive on most functions calls. Any insight on this would be greatly appreciated. I'm trying to write an open source TextMate clone in Ruby and it's gonna be pretty hard without MultiSelect, I could probably hack something together but it'd be ugly. Thanks ahead of time.

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  • Help Modifying Generic REST Helper PHP Example Code to Support XML DOM

    - by Jennifer Baker
    Hi! I found this example PHP source code at HTTP POST from PHP, without cURL I need some help modifying the example PHP source to support XML DOM for manipulating a REST API. I thought that if I update the CASE statement for the XML section below from $r = simplexml_load_string($res); to $r = new DOMDocument(); $r->load($res); that it would work but it doesn't. :( Any help would be appreciated. function rest_helper($url, $params = null, $verb = 'GET', $format = 'xml') { $cparams = array( 'http' => array( 'method' => $verb, 'ignore_errors' => true ) ); if ($params !== null) { $params = http_build_query($params); if ($verb == 'POST') { $cparams['http']['content'] = $params; } else { $url .= '?' . $params; } } $context = stream_context_create($cparams); $fp = fopen($url, 'rb', false, $context); if (!$fp) { $res = false; } else { // If you're trying to troubleshoot problems, try uncommenting the // next two lines; it will show you the HTTP response headers across // all the redirects: // $meta = stream_get_meta_data($fp); // var_dump($meta['wrapper_data']); $res = stream_get_contents($fp); } if ($res === false) { throw new Exception("$verb $url failed: $php_errormsg"); } switch ($format) { case 'json': $r = json_decode($res); if ($r === null) { throw new Exception("failed to decode $res as json"); } return $r; case 'xml': $r = simplexml_load_string($res); if ($r === null) { throw new Exception("failed to decode $res as xml"); } return $r; } return $res; }

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  • CakePHP 1.3 Plugin Shortcut Route

    - by Cake Baker
    Hi, I searched a lot around the web but I couldn't find any specific sollution to this. In CakePHP 1.3, different from 1.2, if you had a controller inside a plugin, and both had the same name, you could access through "<plugin>/<action>", and it would call the 'default' controller. But in 1.3, according to this: http://cakeqs.org/eng/questions/view/setting_up_magic_routes_for_plugins_in_cakephp_1_3 It was removed, and only the 'index' action in the default plugin controller can be accessed this way. I thought about adding extra code in my routes.php file, and loop through all the plugins in my app, making such routes for every action in the controllers named after the plugin, but it doesn't seem like it's the right thing to do... any other suggestions to make this work in 1.3? or at least some very specific code documentation of this particular change? I've already read something in the 1.3.0-RC4 annoucement, but it was not clear enough.. thanks

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  • Unit Testing Model Classes that inherit from NSManagedObject

    - by Matt Baker
    So...I'm trying to get unit tests set up in my iPhone App but I'm having some issues. I'm trying to test my model classes but they inherit directly from NSManagedObject. I'm sure this is a problem but I don't know how to get around it. Everything is building and running as expected but I get this error when calling any method on the class I'm testing: Unknown.m:0:0 unrecognized selector sent to instance 0xc2b120 If I follow this structure (http://chanson.livejournal.com/115621.html) to create my object in my tests I end up with another error entirely but it still doesn't help me. Basically my question is this: how can I test a class that inherits from NSManagedObject?

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