LoadError: no such file to load – Addressable::URI
I went to test the URI class from the Addressable gem, looking for a replacement for the URI of the standard ruby library. The gem installation went smoothly, but as soon as I tried to use it, I got...
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As I’ve noted before, in addition to running Ruby and Rails on my Linux boxes, I’m also running them on my Windows boxes. Dave Keener, a colleague from NovaRUG, e-mailed me asking for advice on how to...
View ArticleHow to Render a Rails View in a Rake Task
We recently took over maintenance of a Rails 2 project for a new client. The application had a view in CSV (comma separated value) format to allow exporting of data. The client wanted to automate the...
View ArticleInstalling Ruby Gem ImgKit on Mac OS X 10.7 (Lion)
I’m working on a project to convert HTML pages into images. It’s written in Ruby, so I started looking for a gem to convert HTML to an image. The StackOverflow thread that I found led me to IMGKit....
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