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Gem Tip: Unpack RJB Into a Rails App

The RJB gem has been insanely useful to me over the past few weeks. I’ve been developing with it on my local machine and things have been going well (that is, after finally figuring out how to get it properly installed). However, I’ve run into an issue when packaging the gem for remote deployment. Continue reading…

Spree Tip: Adjust Permissions for Extended Controllers

I’ve been working with Spree over the past few weeks for my senior project. So far, I’ve really enjoyed working with it. For being a below-1.0 software, it is very stable, and very full-featured. Even better, it’s very easy to create extensions and integrate them into the e-commerce framework. However, I was running into a permissions issue with an extended controller method. Continue reading…

Tutorial: Setting Up iText and RJB in Mac OS X

I’ve been looking for a solid PDF library to use with Ruby on Rails. After researching various possibilities, including prawn and Ruby Ghostscript, I finally decided on iText. Continue reading…