Author Archives: Bill Leeper
Hiring a Ruby on Rails programmer
I work for Onyx Government Services. We are a small privately owned Government services company. We have a number of clients already and are landing more using our Ruby on Rails experience to bring rich UI and fast delivery times … Continue reading
Glassfish + jRuby + Rails3 + Multistage environments
Deploying to a multistage environment stack is so common there is even a nice Capistrano extension for it. However, if you decide to run Rails3 in jRuby with a deployment on glassfish forget all that nonsense. Glassfish is coded to … Continue reading
Revising my position on jRuby
In my earlier article Ruby on Rails vs. Java I put down jRuby and kind of being a niche option for organizations that want to get around their limitations put on my management. In the months since writing that article … Continue reading
My 10 Year old picks the Falcons to win the superbowl
My 10 year old is 4-0 in picking Super Bowl winners. This years pick: Atlanta Falcons. Continue reading
Freedom of Speech Online
I live in the United States. As such I enjoy an immense amount of freedoms both online and in the real world. I have been doing some research lately into other areas of the world and how people get their … Continue reading
Validating against LDAP in Ruby on Rails
How I setup Ruby on Rails to authenticate my site using an LDAP server like a Windows Domain Server. Continue reading
prawnto, prawn and partials
Ran into some interesting gotchas with partials and the prawnto library. Prawn is a powerful low level PDF coding library for ruby. The prawnto plugin creates a template method for generating PDFs using templates and prawn. I was coding along … Continue reading
Issue with Nokogiri on Ubuntu 10.04 and JRuby
Switched to JRuby recently and have entered a whole new world of unsupported libraries. While Ruby seems to be quite well supported, getting information on JRuby specific issues is much harder. The problem I encountered could very well be an … Continue reading
Setup Netbeans on OSX and Oracle OCI8 for Ruby on Rails
I switched over to Netbeans on OSX from TextMate after using Netbeans a lot on my ubuntu setup. First thing I ran into was the following error when I started the application. oci8lib.c:98:in oci8lib.bundle: OCI Library Initialization Error (OCIError) The … Continue reading
Gather Statistics for Oracle
Oralce requires that you periodically gather statistics on the queries you are running. The following command will do that for your local schema. It can be run as the schema owner or sysdba exec dbms_stats.gather_schema_stats(ownname=> '<schema name, upper case>', cascade … Continue reading
