Rick Olson’s attachment_fu is my favorite file upload plug-in because let’s you use three different image manipulation tools [rmagick, mini-magick, image science] and storage options [file system, database, amazon s3]. However it doesn’t yet support two features I use on every CMS I build, Flash/Flex file upload (images will upload but won’t be resized) and [...]
Tons of new stuff, my favorite is Cookie store sessions
The default session store in Rails 2.0 is now a cookie-based one. That means sessions are no longer stored on the file system or in the database, but kept by the client in a hashed form that can’t be forged. This makes it not only a [...]
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SWX Ruby is a port of SWX (originaly PHP), which claims to be “Ruby’s fastest library for exchanging data with Flash” I haven’t tried it because it doesn’t yet support Flash player 9 but I wouldn’t doubt it’s the fastest as many other methods aren’t too speedy (Although RubyAMF is much quicker lately).
as3yaml, you guessed [...]
Jobs that combine Flex and Rails don’t come down the pike too often. Even more rare is one from a start up with a lot of buzz like Blist.
Speaking of pikes the job is in Seattle so all you Northwest Flex/Railers send in your resume and the solution to Blist’s programming challenge.
Without using any built [...]
If your Rails app uses Rmagick to resize images on shared hosting you may have had your app shut down because of a RAM spikes (the spike can be > 40mb when processing an image > 2mb).
MiniMagick to the rescue!
MiniMagick accesses ImageMagick directly, similar to exec(’my ImageMagick command’); in PHP. Since shared hosts are looking [...]
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Merb gets a slick new site.
and it’s not me
Part of the brief was the ability to print at small sizes and to work in black and white, it might be sour grapes coming through, but I don’t think the winner would hold up. The ruby masses don’t seem too pleased…
Update: actually I know why I lost my logo [...]
RubyAMF now can be used as a Rails plugin or you can run it as a Mongrel process. There’s a nice screencast on Rails integration here.
The one-man RubyAMF show that is Aaron Smith also has a Super Simple Remoting class to get you up and running super simply.
Ruby has gone from no AMF support to [...]
Merb was originally created by Ezra Zygmuntowicz to avoid some Rails upload issues.
This is one of the things that Merb was written for. Rails doesn‘t allow multiple concurrent file uploads at once without blocking an entire rails backend for each file upload. Merb allows multiple file uploads at once.
I’ve built ‘multiple’ file uploaders for Rails [...]
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Yes every new framework sets my heart a flutter, but this time it’s for real.
Developing Flex/Flash on top of Rails? What if you could get ActiveRecord and RESTful routing at almost eight times the speed with 75% less RAM? How about all that and real concurrency, including true multiple file upload? All of the above [...]
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