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Comment on Javascript play sound (wav, MP3, etc) in one line by John G

John G — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 22:34:12 +0000

Thanks for this. Some of the techniques out there are so freaking excessive, especially for making one simple sound file play.

Comment on Determine location of ruby gems by Abe

Abe — Tue, 06 Sep 2011 20:49:06 +0000

Just wanted to say this helped me out. Thanks

Comment on Rails 3 Autoload Modules/Classes - 3 Easy Fixes by Aaron Scruggs

Aaron Scruggs — Sun, 07 Aug 2011 19:01:35 +0000

Thank you. Point 3 is maddening and possibly the most poorly documented aspect of rails I have run into.

Comment on Paypal Masspay Ruby Example by Mathew vivek

Mathew vivek — Wed, 03 Aug 2011 14:11:02 +0000

Thank u very much.. Works fine.. I have been searching for materials for more than a day.

Comment on Paypal Masspay Ruby Example by Dharin

Dharin — Wed, 27 Jul 2011 22:35:32 +0000

@Gargron
Hi Gargron,

I am working with rails 3.0.5 and have sandbox account and want to do mass payment with WPP and soap. Can you help me out with this?

Thanks,
Dharin

Comment on Rails 3 Autoload Modules/Classes - 3 Easy Fixes by Rahil Sondhi

Rahil Sondhi — Tue, 26 Jul 2011 11:55:52 +0000

#1 didn’t work for me.

Instead, I made a new file config/initializers/requires.rb:

# Require modules in lib
Dir[File.join(Rails.root, 'lib', '*.rb')].each do |f|
require f
end

Comment on Paypal Masspay Ruby Example by Gargron

Gargron — Tue, 05 Jul 2011 20:51:25 +0000

Thank you very much! I have been fiddling with this for about 5 hours, at last my code looked almost exactly like yours, but a few small details lacked. Now it works

Comment on Rails Thinking Sphinx Plugin: Full Text Searching that’s Cooler than a Polar Bear’s Toenails by How do I do full-text searching in Ruby on Rails? - Programmers Goodies

How do I do full-text searching in Ruby on Rails? - Programmers Goodies — Mon, 04 Jul 2011 21:22:56 +0000

[...] plugin for Sphinx is Thinking Sphinx which has a lot of positive feedback. It is a little easier to get started using Thinking Sphinx than Ultrasphinx. I would suggest [...]

Comment on Rails 3 Performance: Abysmal to Good to Great by rails3 unbearably slow view rendering: use REE with GC tuning | Bibliographic Wilderness

Tue, 28 Jun 2011 19:13:04 +0000

[...] Then I found this post which had the answer. They were seeing symptoms much like mine, partial views taking pathological amounts of time to render (although there’s weren’t nearly as crazy bad as mine). And they discovered the problem was Ruby’s Garbage Collector. (Aha! Why didn’t that remind me of very similar problems I’ve had in the past when I worked with Java, with GC? Probably because I’ve blocked it out of my memory to preserve my sanity). [...]

Comment on Rails 3 Performance: Abysmal to Good to Great by Jonathan Rochkind

Jonathan Rochkind — Mon, 27 Jun 2011 20:56:36 +0000

I ran into this same issue upgrading an app from Rails2 to Rails3. Was going crazy trying to figure out what it was — thanks for this blog post, using REE and GC tuning fixed it.

But here’s the thing… I was wondering, the date on your post is only a couple months ago, Rails has been out forever…. nobody else noticed this until now?

Out of curiosity, I ran my app under rails 3.0.0 instead of the latest 3.0.8… and there was no slowness problem even without using REE at all. (I never used to use REE in my rails2 app, I was getting acceptable performance without it and didn’t need another thing to deal with).

Looks to me like something has crept into Rails recently to cause this.