Nah, probably not, but I do have a little something to brag about. A certain Rick Olson has kindly accepted a second patch of mine. Like the first couple of commits he merged, this new one is pretty small. It’s a simple update to the MasterFilter class in his Masochism plugin.

Masochism is a pretty specialized plugin, but extremely useful, small and easy to work with. In short Masochism provides a simple way to use a master/slave database configuration from a Rails project. It does this by delegating to different ActiveRecord connections based on the type of SQL you are generating, with reads going to the slave and writes to the master.

It’s also nice enough to provide a few extras classes under the ActiveReload namespace.The first two are abstract ActiveRecord::Base classes, MasterDatabase and SlaveDatabase, that will force the models inheritting from them work entirely in the implied database. The third is MasterFilter, a class designed to be used as an around filter in a controller. When this filter is executed your models will make sure to do all reads and writes from the master database.