olla conferencia rails I am Julian Fischer CEO of the Avarteq GmbH. After speaking in 2009 and enjoying an awesome conference I was very interessted to come back again. This time it will happen at this wonderful park. It’s a wonderful conference at a wonderful location. So why not having a wonderful journey to it [...]
I am very pleased that my talk at Conferencia Rails has been accepted. Spain has one of europe’s strongest Ruby and Rails communities so shouldn’t miss this awesome conference happening in Madrid July 13 – July 15 2011. I’ve been speaking at a prior Conferencia Rails event and it was a great event. This year’s [...]
After being pretty busy for months we’ve recently made some text changes to our enterprise-rails.de site. There is still some work to do but after receiving some useful information we decided to shorten descriptions of our managed single server, two server cluster and four server cluster. They’re all based on high end Thomas Krenn hardware and are deployed to [...]
Since Rails 2.3.5 you can easily load new routes to your app anytime. So using RouteSet#add_configuration_file to load a separate route file can me extremly useful when creating a rails plugin or engine that needs to define some extra routes.
When trying to create a rails project you might encounter the following error: /Users/jfischer/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.1-p378/gems/rails-3.0.0.beta3/bin/rails:1:in `require’: no such file to load — rails/cli (LoadError) from /Users/jfischer/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.1-p378/gems/rails-3.0.0.beta3/bin/rails:1:in `<top (required)>’ from /Users/jfischer/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.1-p378/bin/rails:19:in `load’ from /Users/jfischer/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.1-p378/bin/rails:19:in `<main>’ The problem can be solved by uninstalling all prior rails and active* beta versions using the gem command: gem uninstall railties actionpack [...]
If you encounter an error like the following when trying to install rails 3 prerelease: ravel:~ jfischer$ gem install rails –prerelease Successfully installed rails-3.0.0.beta3 1 gem installed Installing ri documentation for rails-3.0.0.beta3… ERROR: While executing gem … (Errno::ENOENT) No such file or directory – lib then you might want to try skipping the ri and [...]
Really impressed by the beauty of scottish architecture I was wondering how the Scottish Ruby Conference will be like.It has been held at the Royal College of Physicians in Edinburgh a really impressive location. With a history of more than 300 (!) years it is an organization contrasting the the baby aged computer science fraction. The contrast of talks [...]
This year’s Ruby en Rails conference in Amsterdam was a great success. A lot of great speakers came together with an amazing audience. Besides the two Rails talks from Jeremy Kemper and Yehuda Katz there were a lot of really interesting talks. Jonathan Weiss’ Talk about Rails Security, for instance, was very interesting and should [...]
In a recent project I experienced a RTeX::Document::GenerationError only when using Phusion Passenger. After a closer look I’ve seen that the PDF has been successfully created but the redirect to the following request failed. Everything works fine with mongrel. However, the error messaged looked like the following: RTeX::Document::GenerationError in BillsController#index</h3> <pre>Could not find result PDF [...]
In order to create PDFs with unicode (utf8) support within a Ruby on Rails app on Mac OS X, you need a fully working Latex installation including the ucs.sty extension. The best way to install Latex on a Mac OS X is using MacPorts. The following command will install Tex, Latex and a whole bunch [...]