Backstory So, I had a respond_to block handling PDF and HTML. Without an explicit format, the RESTful route returned HTML. With an explicit PDF format, it returned PDF (using Prince XML and Princely to keep DRY). Straightforward stuff. Then the client requested that the documents also be downloadable in MS Word format. So, after building [...]
Archive for March, 2010
Windows + Word + IE + respond_to = trouble
Posted in Ruby on Rails on March 31, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
OpenID Integration Testing in Rails
Posted in Ruby on Rails, Testing on March 17, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Overview Providing the option of OpenID for account creation and sign-in helps keeps things easy on your users. It may even lower the barrier to people signing up for (and continuing to use) your service. Authlogic implements user authentication beautifully, and it is readily extensible. By way of illustrating how to extend Authlogic, its author, [...]
Migrating MySQL to PostgreSQL in Rails
Posted in Ruby on Rails on March 15, 2010 | 1 Comment »
The AR-DBcopy gem, by Michael Siebert, made this very easy. The ReadMe doesn’t cover use of the gem, so I’ll cover that here. Overview: AR-DBcopy uses ActiveRecord to achieve database agnosticism. Both the source and target databases are accessible a single instance of Rails (in my case, both databases were on the same machine, but [...]
