I was fiddling with migrations, and found these regarding the use of MySQL-ish ENUMs in Migrations:

• Enum fields in migrations? [rails.techno-weenie.net]
• HowtoUseSetAndEnumColumns [wiki.rubyonrails.com]

Basically, ENUMs aren't supported, and using Validations might be a good work-around, but is dependent on you putting (and keeping) all of the logic in your Rails app. If you need to go cross-app (with some other thing that ain't rails), then use CHECK or other DB constraints to enforce desired values.

Got a new T60 yay!, here's my brain dump on getting it to work with gentoo (2006.1).

See also (Updated as new parts are added):

• Part 2: NTFS
• Part 3: Networking
  

I've been borking blog-things around so I can share more code between the thingies that I keep running, and I guess I didn't come and look here!

Did you go? Did you vote? You people in the U.S.of A. - did you? I did. I did! And what a turnaround...

• Democrats 'win control of Senate' [bbc.co.uk]
• Dems Complete Election Sweep of Congress [npr.org]
• The Election Heard 'Round the World [npr.org]

Google has made a statement on their blog about pranksters producing results that seem politically slanted - what they don't mention is that, perhaps, the current search result matches actual American opinion, i.e. that many in America actually DO think GWB is a miserable failure. I certainly do.