Cake 1.1’s documentation is a little lacking, again.

I was having a bug where a model was updating instead of inserting, even though I was sending in an array with all of the model’s attribute except for the id. In order to get the save function to insert instead of update, I had to explicitly set the model’s id to ‘null’.

For about a half hour i wrestled with a model’s $useDbConfig variable not working in a CakePHP project.

The answer came buried in the comments of the cakebook: the database connection has to have ‘persistent’ set to ‘false’ in order to work!

In order to get debugging working with Adobe Flex Builder for Linux Alpha, I had to install the debugger version of the Flash 9 firefox plug-in.

I ran into a strange issue where after installing the Flash 9 debugger plug-in, the next instance of Firefox opened would use this correct flash version, but any other instances of firefox I opened after that would revert back to the regular version of Flash 9.

A quick post to the Ubuntu Forums revealed that running sudo apt-get remove flashplugin-nonfree fixes this without a hitch.

In Chapter 4 of Sitepoint’s Simply Rails 2, you are told to run the command

sqlite3 db/development.sqlite3


then execute the sql query

CREATE TABLE `stories` (
`id` int(11) NOT NULL auto_increment,
`name` varchar(255) default NULL,
`link` varchar(255) default NULL,
PRIMARY KEY (`id`)
);


Unfortunately, following these directions you get the error: Unable to open database "db/development.sqlite3": unable to open database file.

After searching a sitepoint post I found that you have to run rake db:migrate first in the command line from the shovell directory project first, and then run this SQL query instead:

CREATE TABLE `stories` (
`id` int(11) autoincrement NOT NULL,
`name` varchar(255) default NULL,
`link` varchar(255) default NULL,
`created_at` datetime DEFAULT NULL,
`updated_at` datetime DEFAULT NULL,
PRIMARY KEY (`id`)
);