Vpim::InvalidEncodingError: ... =OD=0A= when parsing vcf files in ruby ...   more »

Well, it is not leaks, it's just the way how Ruby and Rails works. The problem in templates , Proc, GC and scope. Read more ...   more »

Rails taking care for your to handle UTF-8. How about when you need to generate a CSV file? It can't be UTF-8. It has to be one of the localized encodings. There is no javascript way to know what is a default locale on the windows client. You may assume it based on your major audience location, (still wrong assumption). ...

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Just demo

$ irb
irb(main):001:0> require 'yaml'
=> true
irb(main):002:0> YAML.load(YAML.dump("\n New Paragraph\nNew Line"))
ArgumentError: syntax error on line 3, ...

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Gmail account of one of my friends got hijacked and pretty much the same minute all her contacts from contact ...   more »

Another 'work/sales' representative scam. Turkish company with email address on Spanish Yahoo. Apparently Finland, Cyprus and UK is not part ...   more »

I would never thought that russian OLIGARH'IE name will be used in the old-old scam

To: (Recipient List Suppressed)
Sender: ...   more »

REF:KIR/02.
Dear Sir/Madam,

We avail ourselves of this opportunity to approach you for the
establishment of business relations with you. We are presently
searching for Representatives/Collection Agents who can help us
establish a medium of getting to our customers in the America,
precisely USA and Canada. If interested, Please contact us via email;
for more information. ...

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ActiveMerchant Paypal gateway doesn't like 'SuccessWithWarning' from Paypal. How to handle it and save your face (or your website face)   more »

The scammers and identity thefts becoming more sophisticated. That email came through google spam check and spamassassin I run locally.   more »

Stop big file upload before it hits your application server

• Apache 2
• ModRewrite
• Ruby on Rails

When you have a form to upload a file, you may want to limit the ...

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Scam with elements of social engineering.
How scammers using craigslist  to fool you, mislead and deceive you ...   more »

Curl retry easy with alias_method_chain ...   more »

Some time you need a debugger with ability to  step-by-step execution,
inspection and evaluation, not just watch. I use small shell script to achieve this

#!/bin/sh
mongrel-cluster stop
sleep 5
cd $ROR_HOME
/usr/bin/xterm -e "rdebug -n -- ./script/server -p 4001" &
/usr/bin/xterm -e "rdebug -n -- ./script/server -p 4002" &
/usr/bin/xterm -e "rdebug -n -- ./script/server -p 4003" &

The server will stop execution right at the line debugger if defined? Debugger

I don't know how Safari identifies a content-type for the file before it uploaded (extension or magic bit). But when it failed to identify it - nothing is passed to server Example upload CSV file from Safari on Windows ...   more »

I need to parse uploaded vCard (vcf) file for one of the project, I am
working on. There is not that many libraries for Ruby around there.
Well, actually there is only one - vpim

Everything was working just fine with test files I found on the Internet,
until I hit the wall with vcf from Apple Address book. Few surprises:
accent characters or non US ASCII in general plus EMAIL and TEL
without a value ...

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You need to render partial with a collection of hashes (or kind_of?). Probably you control the code, which generate the collection

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Imagine, you have created a great module/class for rails interacting with 3rd party service provider over TCP/IP or you build a ruby extension to one of the libraries, where work with IO is done outside of the ruby itself. While you was building it you didn't pay a lot of attention to handling timeouts, network latency, IO blocks or you name it.

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I posted a new photo to GrandCanyon.

I posted a new photo to GrandCanyon.

When logs doesn't help to troubleshoot and you need to use an interactive debugger with rails and ruby (1.8.5)

1. install ...   more »

auto_scope plugin for rails has_many with_scope   more »

if you do rename_column/add/remove in your migration, don't forget to call reset_column_information in the changed class. Otherwise you may have a problem with running migration on an empty DB if you pre-seed data in the migration after change ...   more »

One of our custmers noticed that our server doesn't responsd sometimes if body of the request is 2048, or 4096 ...   more »

OpenSRS RCL, perl 5.8, UTF-8 and Blowfish. How I can make it work?   more »

If you happens to use ruby and in particular IO/Reactor, then I think you should be aware of the ...   more »

Unix version of libfcgi has a nasty bug when fast_cgi process working as an external server and communication between Apache ...   more »