Archive for February 2008

ImageScience on Windows without the pain

Posted by Rob Anderton on February 18th, 2008 @ 19:55 – 30 comments

Tagged with compiler, imagescience, rails development, ruby, rubyinline, win32, windows

Back in December I posted about ImageScience and RubyInline on Windows. Turns out I wasn’t the only one trying to get this combination working: according to Google Analytics it has become our second most popular blog entry (for the naturally curious this is the most popular).

A Simple Faith.. Monitoring by God!

Posted by Chris Anderton on February 12th, 2008 @ 11:10 – 6 comments

Tagged with availability, centos, development, god, init.d, linux, mongrel, mongrel_cluster, monit, monitoring, mysql, nginx, rails, rails development, ruby, ruby on rails, services, sysadmin, uk, uk rails, webfellas, webfellows

I'll try and get all my puns out of the way up front.. In the past, we've used monit to monitor our applications and servers - while we've been aware of God for some time - then it was a case of better the devil we knew as we didn't allocate any time to converting to God.

Now, my new found religion hasn't been born of any material failings with monit, more a case of getting round to seeing what God is all about.

Rails plugin round-up

Posted by Rob Anderton on February 4th, 2008 @ 16:10 – 2 comments

Tagged with attachment_fu, geocode, imagescience, plugin, rails, rails development, rmagick, ruby, time zone, tzinfo, validation

Over the last year we’ve been involved in a wide variety of projects using Ruby on Rails and in that time we’ve had to use many different plugins. As you’d expect some have been better than others, so here’s a quick round-up of a few that I have found particularly useful.

ruby on rails, jruby, aws, ec2, exalead