Pay attention to what you ask for

I have been busy debugging stuff on my rails project. I had a horrendous performance issue caused because I was retrieving way too much informaiton when I did x.find(). The development.log generated by rails is a god send to debug that stuff.

When you run into performance issues, it turns out that most of the time, rails does the right thing. If you putz around with the arguments to find and endup being greedy, thats when you get bitten in the ****.

The other cool thing I ended up using for this implementation is before_save() handler to allow me to do a webservice request while saving some data. That is so cool because now I dont have to track down all the places where save is being called or worse, implement save in the model.