From Mysql to Oracle: Grails application migration

Today I have finished migration of our Grails prototype. Originally we did develop it for MySQL, but the final system have to work with Oracle. This post summarize troubles and differences I was facing. User creation Since I am not Oracle administrator, it took me some time to put together script that creates user and… Continue reading From Mysql to Oracle: Grails application migration

Full text search in Ruby on Rails 2 – MySQL

My previous post compared MySQL and ferret full text search engines. For our project, the ferret was the winner. Nevertheless, I will try to show the beauty and simplicity of using MySQL indexes. Create table and indices First of all it is necessary to create table and the corresponding index. Create table articles( id integer… Continue reading Full text search in Ruby on Rails 2 – MySQL