Tag Archives: ruby on rails

Attachment Fu vs Paperclip: S3 Death Match

By Bryan Woods | May 29, 2009

This is a screenshot from our New Relic RPM performance analysis.
The CoversController uses Paperclip for file attachments, while the ImagesController uses Attachment-Fu.
While these results don’t strike me as particularly surprising, they’re certainly compelling.
Switching to Paperclip was a decision I made for Covers due to some slightly unusual requirements, but I decided to leave Attachment-Fu in [...]

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Beautiful Moments in Programming: Phusion Passenger

By Bryan Woods | December 1, 2008

 

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Writing PDFs with Ruby on Rails Using Prawn and Prawnto

By Bryan Woods | November 30, 2008

I’ve had the opportunity to spend the last few days working with the amazing Prawn Ruby gem and the equally stellar Prawnto Rails plugin., which allow you to dynamically create PDF files from a Ruby on Rails application. It’s elegant, fun, and stupid simple, and since I’ve never written a tutorial before, these libraries inspired [...]

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We need an open source iPhone community like, now.

By Bryan Woods | November 17, 2008

Recently I’ve downloaded a few iPhone applications that have used the UITableView in ways I could have never even imagined. Really classy, brilliant interfaces that make using the software a real delight.  Check out Tweetsville, Facebook, and Twinkle to see what I’m getting at.
Tweetsville in particular is outstanding. The amount of work Ed Voas put [...]

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