Abnormalities

Squid…

Sun, 07 Mar 2010 21:23:27 -0400

Squid…

Ruby PDF Reports

Wed, 03 Mar 2010 01:55:00 -0400

RGhost and RGhost-Rails

I really like the report resulted from an EPS Template. RGhost do this with perfection - lines and elements very good defined on the document. Quick, precise and light - yeah - do all the job without a lot of processing and memory consumption.

I started on a project with RGhost, but some issues with my environment after installing the last version of Xcode or after removing the MacPorts made me change the library - unfortunatelly - because I really enjoyed in using it and because I didn’t find other so cool like this one.

Ok, it isn’t so easy to draw each item on your position - we are talking about PDF reports on web - with Rails - without that bloated IDEs and without report design tools. :P

Prawn and Prawnto

Simplicity and no dependencies. There are a lot of missing features - but it works. There are some examples of Prawn use on the Prawnto homepage.

No EPS support yet - but it does the work fine. I enjoyed the result but there are some issues with the cpu processment from these gems - took a lot of time to generate the report here - maybe this impression was caused by the RGhost - since was my first attempt with Ruby and PDF reports.

So - both tools do the job - if you want EPS support and a ghostscript dependency isn’t a problem for you - RGhost is the perfect tool. But if you need a pure implementation and no advanced formatting text features - Prawn works fine too.

Prototype: A kind of mix between InFAMOUS and Hulk

Sat, 20 Feb 2010 03:18:00 -0400

Yeah, I played Prototype until the end. Nice game, not the best that I already played, but you can have a lot of fun with this game.

New York is the city, the year I can’t remember, but you start the game trying remember what happened to you and who are you.

As you can see at the screenshot, the game is very violent, with a lot of scenes with blood and mutilated bodies.

You can upgrade your biological weapons, upgrade your movements, well, many new abilities can be unlocked completing the missions and side missions.

There is a network that you can build consuming people that have some important information about you. Each time you hurt and consume people and some hunters - a kind of super man without skin and that walk like monkey - you can upgrade your abilities or see what is in his mind - like messed memories or special training (helicopters and tanks needs these special abilities to be piloted).

You can disguise yourself as some people that you consumed. This is required on some missions - so you can access military buildings.

In a nut shell: a great game to you spend some time. Worth each cent.

iphone-style-checkboxes: Turn boring checkboxes into iPhone-style toggle switches

Fri, 12 Feb 2010 15:02:09 -0400

iphone-style-checkboxes: Turn boring checkboxes into iPhone-style toggle switches:

thechangelog:

Progressively enhance your forms by turning boring old checkboxes into stylish iPhone-style toggle switches.

Dependencies: jQuery or Prototype + Scriptaculous

[Source on GitHub] [Homepage]

"To run a find command limited to only the current directory and not search through any..."

Sun, 07 Feb 2010 20:04:15 -0400

“

To run a find command limited to only the current directory and not search through any subdirectories, use the -maxdepth 0 option:

find . -maxdepth 0 -print

To search one level of directories below /usr, use:

find /usr -maxdepth 1 -print

The maxdepth option can be used in conjunction with other find options such as -name, -nouser, -atime, etc.

”

- Limit the depth of search using find | UNIX | Tech-Recipes

RMagick issues with ImageMagick 6.5.6-5 on Leopard

Sun, 07 Feb 2010 19:04:00 -0400

I know, RMagick is a pain in the ass. But sometimes you need handle with old projects or some dependencies that makes you do it. So, for these cases, you need it installed.

Normally you just do something like:

$ sudo gem install rmagick

But at this time, didn’t. My installation was not able to find the MagickWand.h file.

I decided remove all ununsed stuff from my computer, like MacPorts, and other libraries to try solve that (this was decided after compile ImageMagick from the source 2 times and the error persisted), updated paths, changed some params, etc.

After remove all dependencies, compile a lot of things again, the result was: nothing.

Actually, no, nothing is something that didn’t happen. My ruby install started give me segmentation fault with some gems. Ok, reinstall ruby, right? Wrong.

My issue was related with ImageMagick 6.5.6-5, downloading and compiling 6.5.6-10 from the source solved my problem.

So, with all this mess, at least, I updated all my gems, libraries, ruby version and started to use Homebrew, a nice package manager for Mac. But this is the subject from the next post.

Welcome to Journally's Blog

Fri, 05 Feb 2010 20:57:53 -0400

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directus: Boa flow has been designed to accommodate the various...

Mon, 21 Dec 2009 11:34:32 -0400

directus:

Boa flow has been designed to accommodate the various working environments and changing requirements of creative professionals. Integral to the bag’s flexible design is its collapsible bottom compartment, which serves as a protected, separate place for your camera or large headphones. When those items are not needed, collapsing the compartment maximizes the main volume for books, documents, or other large items.

$200

"For Rails 2.3 In line 619 you must to have: my_options = FileColumn::init_options(options,..."

Fri, 18 Dec 2009 19:22:46 -0400

“For Rails 2.3 In line 619 you must to have:
my_options = FileColumn::init_options(options, ActiveSupport::Inflector.underscore(self.name).to_s,
attr.to_s)
(as the first response) Then you should go to the file: file_column_helper.rb, go to line 79, and change the line: url”

- uninitialized constant FileColumn::ClassMethods::Inflector — WhatDoesThisErrorMean.com

Build It With Me

Wed, 09 Dec 2009 00:49:26 -0400

Build It With Me

Working with different time zones? in_time_zone can help!

Fri, 04 Dec 2009 22:35:21 -0400

>> d = Time.now => Fri Dec 04 23:12:59 -0200 2009 >> d.in_time_zone("Buenos Aires") => Fri, 04 Dec 2009 22:12:59 ART -03:00

"Using Rails and SQLite and this error is showed:uninitialized constant Encoding So you have the..."

Fri, 04 Dec 2009 08:51:01 -0400

“

Using Rails and SQLite and this error is showed:
uninitialized constant Encoding

So you have the wrong sqlite3 GEM installed. Please run: gem uninstall sqlite3
gem install sqlite3-ruby

”

- Retrospectiva / Ticket #731

Async Observer

Tue, 01 Sep 2009 01:29:14 -0300

Async Observer:

If you need talk with beanstalk… :-)

"Prefiro morrer de pé que viver sempre ajoelhado."

Sun, 30 Aug 2009 15:27:51 -0300

““Prefiro morrer de pé que viver sempre ajoelhado.””

- Che Guevara

"Getting RMagick, Leopard-Style sudo port install tiff -macosx #disables the linkage with..."

Mon, 17 Aug 2009 20:02:12 -0300

“Getting RMagick, Leopard-Style
sudo port install tiff -macosx #disables the linkage with Apple’s open gl
sudo port install ImageMagick
sudo gem install rmagick”

- How to build ImageMagick and install RMagick with MacPorts on Mac OS X Leopard | Educate. Liberate.

HandBrake - Convert video to your iPhone/iPod

Mon, 17 Aug 2009 15:59:19 -0300

HandBrake - Convert video to your iPhone/iPod

How do I upload an image with Sinatra (like Paperclip)? - Ruby Forum

Mon, 17 Aug 2009 14:50:19 -0300

How do I upload an image with Sinatra (like Paperclip)? - Ruby Forum:

  post '/upload' do
    unless params[:file] &&
           (tmpfile = params[:file][:tempfile]) &&
           (name = params[:file][:filename])
      @error = "No file selected"
      return haml(:upload)
    end
    STDERR.puts "Uploading file, original name #{name.inspect}"
    while blk = tmpfile.read(65536)
      # here you would write it to its final location
      STDERR.puts blk.inspect
    end
    "Upload complete"
  end

---------
  %h1 Upload

  %form{:action=>"/upload",:method=>"post",:enctype=>"multipart/form-data"}
    %input{:type=>"file",:name=>"file"}
    %input{:type=>"submit",:value=>"Upload"}

iClarified - Where To Download iPhone Firmware Files From

Fri, 14 Aug 2009 23:04:27 -0300

iClarified - Where To Download iPhone Firmware Files From:

Thanks to @caffo for the tip.

Configure Phusion Passenger to test Rails asset_host in development environment - tjhanley.com

Fri, 07 Aug 2009 12:45:48 -0300

Configure Phusion Passenger to test Rails asset_host in development environment - tjhanley.com

Deployment Script Spring Cleaning - GitHub

Wed, 05 Aug 2009 04:06:27 -0300

Deployment Script Spring Cleaning - GitHub