similar to: mongrel memory usage ballooning and process stomping

I''m going to be generating thumbnails from user uploaded images. I''m looking around at the libraries available to do this sort of thing and there are three that look promising. ImageScience -- http://seattlerb.rubyforge.org/ImageScience.html Mini-Magick -- http://rubyforge.org/projects/mini-magick/ RMagick -- http://rmagick.rubyforge.org/ It looks like a lot of people are

I''ve tried migrating acts_as_attachment to attachment_fu (just to see if I could replace RMagick with ImageScience+FreeImage), but the quality of the thumbnails is just horrendous, blurred beyond recognition (downscaling a 1280x1024 to a few considerably smaller thumbnails). Changing attachment_fu to use RMagick again and the thumbnails were crispy sharp again. I was wondering

I know that Zed has made mention of the fact that using RMagick with mongrel and rails is a bad thing. I''m currently using FlexImage (which in turn uses RMagick) on my application and really haven''t had too many problems. We get a restart for memory usage every 8-10 hours on one mongrel of twelve running, but I''m not sure if that''s an RMagick issue. Either way,

Hi, I am trying to spec helper methods in a Rails project, but it seems the specs fail with the error: You might have expected an instance of Array. The error occurred while evaluating nil.<< if the restful routes helper are used either in spec files, or the helper file. What can I be doing wrong? Or how can I fix this. Thanks! -- Surendra Singhi http://ssinghi.kreeti.com,

Hello, When I am trying to run rake migration tasks, I get the error as shown below. I am using ruby 1.8.4 and edge rails. What am I missing or doing wrong? C:\rails\temp1>rake db:migrate (in C:/rails/temp1) rake aborted! no such file to load -- rails_version Thanks for your help. -- Surendra Singhi http://ssinghi.kreeti.com, http://www.kreeti.com Read my blog at:

Hello, Earlier in my rails application, I was using the convention of writing the following to refer to templates and/or views in the view folder. "./blah/blah" But in the Edge rail, it doesn''t work and the page doesn''t shows any output there is no error in the development log as well. But changing the above to "/blah/blah" seems to fix things. Was I

Hello, I am using rails 1.0 and I have following questions. Please help me. [1] How can I do logging in the rails models? I checked the wiki but didn''t find anything which I explained how to do logging in models. [2] Say I have a certain model, when I declare a function in the model, and try to use that function from a view or a unit test, I get an error. For views the error occurs

Hello, I am pleased to announce the availability of the plugin acts_as_classifier which allows using the ''classifier'' gem in a Rails application. This plugin can be downloaded from http://opensvn.csie.org/sksinghi/acts_as_classifiable/ This plugin is useful in scenarios where you want to distinguish between spam or non-spam comments, Or maybe you want to track the

Hello, I am using RJS and Edge Rails and I was wondering if the page object should be available in helpers also. For example if I have a helper function def update_flash_messages page.replace_html ''flash_messages'', (show_flash_messages :textilize => true) page.visual_effect ''flash_messages'', :appear end and then in my RJS files I call

Hello, Say, I have a pictures table, and there are many objects which can have pictures, so I define a picturable type. Now, to make the query for pictures more efficient I should index the picture table using both picturable_type and picturable_id. Is this the correct approach to indexing the table, or can things be done better? I want the database retrieval operation to be extremely fast (I

Hello, I have created a ticket for an enhancement of the autocompleter to show the options immediately when the field gets focus. Right now at least one character must be typed for autocomplete to kick in. http://dev.rubyonrails.org/ticket/5435 I have also made some code changes directly in the script Event.observe(this.element, "blur", this.onBlur.bindAsEventListener(this));

I am having issues loading imagemagick and rmagick on webfaction. I have installed a rails app called balder that organizes images. my main problem is that i can''t seem to upoload the image sthrough balder. balder uses imagemagick and rmagick when i use the console and do this: irb(main):003:0> require ''RMagick'' => nil I don''t think rmagick is

Hello, I need to put an AJAX, form such that it is inside a table, and spans across few rows. But, what I am noticing is that, while submitting the form, the data in the fields is not submitted. If I move the form outside the table or inside a cell, things work OK, but not when the form is inside the table and spans few rows. This problem is only with AJAX forms, regular forms work perfect. I

Hello, I was wondering if there was any automated (may be scaffolding) way of exposing Model CRUD via web services. I found this ticket for django, but nothing for Rails. http://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/115 Thanks in advance for your opinions and suggestions. Regards. -- Surendra Singhi http://ssinghi.kreeti.com, http://www.kreeti.com Read my blog at:

Hello, I want to start my rails application in production mode. But for some reason in spite of uncommenting this line in ''config/environment.rb'' ENV[''RAILS_ENV''] ||= ''production'' when I run ''ruby script\console'' it says loading development mode. Also, the webrick sends log messages to development.log file instead of

Hello, Rails provide counter cache field for associations, I want a similar cache for totaling up values (say account_balance = sum_of_deposits - sum_of_withdrawals). I was wondering if rails, already has another surprise in store for me, or is there any plug-in or how-to for doing these kind of things. Thanks. -- Surendra Singhi http://ssinghi.kreeti.com, http://www.kreeti.com Read the

Hello, When I am writing rails migrations, quite often I make mistake in them which causes the migration tasks to stop halfway with error. This causes lots of problem, because it results in half of the things in migrations changed and other half not. Also, as the schema number is changed, so things cannot be rolled back. Is there any way to make the entire migration action atomic, i.e.,

Hello, I am learning rails and ruby and I have some questions about how should I go about doing certain things. [1]Many of my models have some functionality which is common, and instead of duplicating it across models, I want to store it in a single file, and then import the file into the models. Should I do this using modules, and then store them in the `lib'' directory? What is the

Hello, While sending email notifications from ThoughtNotifier, I am getting weird exceptions, which sometimes occur on the production machine, but I haven''t been able to reproduce on my development machine. There should be no error while rendering `thought_notifier/share_notification.rhtml'' template, but if for some reason it is rendering

Hello, I needed to add custom cache field for one of my application. I thought I will share the code showing how to do this. This code below creates and maintain a custom cache field, for keeping track of totals. Say, you have accounts, and for each account there are transactions (either deposit/withdrawal), and one will like to keep track of the total balance for an account. So, let there be a