I recently switch from a mod_proxy / thin setup to Phusion Passenger and my application started to do the funniest things and the production.log was full with errors related to memcached. It seems, that passengers spawn method “smart” isn’t compatible with memcached. Within seconds on a lightly loaded server the cache gets corrupted big time. […]
Ruby on Rails I18n infrastructure did a great job to internationalization in Rails applications. Most things work right out of the box. Daily Fratze is fully internationalized and i wanted to use ordinal day numbers in the English version. Pity, there is no template for strftime that works that way. As i already hat monkey […]
Again, the MySQL ruby gem totally annyoed me trying to install it on a fresh Mac OS X 10.5.5 install and MySQL 5.0.67. This time the following command brought it to life: sudo env ARCHFLAGS="-arch i386" gem install mysql — \ –with-mysql-dir=/usr/local/mysql –with-mysql-lib=/usr/local/mysql/lib \ –with-mysql-include=/usr/local/mysql/includesudo env ARCHFLAGS="-arch i386" gem install mysql — \ –with-mysql-dir=/usr/local/mysql –with-mysql-lib=/usr/local/mysql/lib […]
If you followed the instructions here and used the method named PDF::Writer (Austin Ziegler), you we’re out of luck when Rails 2.1 appeared. With Rails 2.2.2 once again the rendering mechanism seems to have changed big time and my previous post on how to make the pdf/writer gem work with a custom template handler doesn’t […]
I couldn’t find this in the documents, but Geoff Buesing showed me the hooks to turn off Ruby On Rails’ automatic timezone conversions for some columns of a model or a complete model: # Turn it off for just some columns class Picture < ActiveRecord::Base def self.skip_time_zone_conversion_for_attributes [:created_at, :published_at] end end # Turin it […]