Archive for the ‘Boarding the Rails Train’ Category

attachment_fu problems in Windows

Saturday, August 23rd, 2008

If anyone has tried using attachment_fu on Windows (with ImageMagick + RMagick already installed), they may find that they are able to upload the images, but their app is not making the thumbnails they have specified. The reason for this is because Ruby is working faster than Windows and the files ...

Setting up a full Rails development environment in Windows

Tuesday, August 12th, 2008

I wrote this article as I was a Rails developer working on both Linux and Windows - both of which include package management programs that ease the installation of a Rails developments stack. I was recently forced to use Windows at work as I needed to test my applications ...

GemRunner Error in Rails while freezing gems

Tuesday, January 15th, 2008

If you have upgraded Rails from 1.2 to 2.0, you may encounter a GemRunner error while trying to freeze your Rails gems to the latest version. I had tried to upgrade one of my Rails applications that had Rails frozen to 1.2.3 to 2.0.2. I first did a rake rails:unfreeze, but ...