legacydata

Is there a way to avoid automatically updating Rails timestamp fields?

If you have DB columns created_at and updated_at Rails will automatically set those values when you create and update a model object. Is there a way to save the model without touching those columns? I am bringing in some legacy data and I would like to set those values from the corresponding values in the (differently named) legacy data...

Parsing CArchive (MFC classes) files in Ruby

I have a legacy app that seems to be exporting/saving files with CArchive (legacy MFC application). We're currently refactoring the tool for the web. Is there a library I can look at in Ruby for parsing and loading these legacy files? What possible libraries could I look into? Problems with the file format according to XML serializati...