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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hello, BEWARE: this is not a Rails question, but a SwitchTower question. I am asking here because SwitchTower is usually employed with Rails. I am developing what we may call a "distributed video player" in Ruby (this is NOT a Rails application). It works this way: I have several boxes that play videos and one server, where I store the

I have a problem with running Rails 0.13.1 with scgi_rails 0.4.3 and Apache. After running for some time (more than a day), the SCGI process stops with the following error (from scgi.log): -- [ERR][24189] Collecting thread: Too many open files [ERR][24189] /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/scgi_rails-0.4.3/lib/scgi.rb:188:in `accept''

Trying out the imagemagick helper by Gijs van Tulder, I''ve run into a bit of a problem. In environment.rb, I placed: require_gem ''actionpack-imagemagick'' I''ve set up my controller as such: class ProfileController < ApplicationController # ..SNIP.. class Photo < ApplicationController imagemagick_for '...

Hi, I am looking for the best solution to resize images to fit within a certain area. The images will only be made smaller if they will not fit within a fixed size area. It is important to maintain the same proportions. This ImageMagick extension looks promising: http://vantulder.net/rails/magick/ However, I believe it may be overkill for just resizing images sometimes. I have also seen a few javascript examples for resizing, but may not degrade nicely. Also, these images are stored externally and are accessed via http://somesite.com/someimage.gif syntax which the ImageM...