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How to Integrate JasperReports with Ruby on Rails - Move comment out to comments

Introduction

JasperReports is a powerful—and even more important—well known open source Java reporting tool that has the ability to deliver rich content in formats such as PDF, RTF, HTML, CSV and XML. It is widely used and appreciated in the Java community because of its flexibility and the availability of various GUI tools for rapid report design.

Video Interview with Anthony Eden, Local Surfer, Developer, and Speaker

We’re proud to announce the second video interview in our series is now up! We interviewed Anthony Eden, CTO of Chi.mp and a local surfer and long time developer.

Anthony will be presenting a talk on “Technical Debt”, what it is, how to avoid it, and what to do when you have it. Anthony also shares his one Must Do when visiting Hawaii. Guesses as to what it is?

A Ruby Couple: Interview with James and Dana Gray

It's another week without a Questions Five Ways discussion, but I've got another great interview that more than makes up for it. James Gray (@JEG2) is very well known in the Ruby community. His wife, Dana, is less well known, but won't stay that way for long. Fresh from her Ruby presenting debut, a lightning talk on Ruby regular expressions at MWRC, the two of them are embarking on a joint

Future Ruby!

The very nice folks at Unspace sent me a beautiful care package today - a “handwritten” note and a huge poster. It mentioned that Future Ruby is in mid-july in Toronto, and invited me to come with my team.

I’m such a sucker for this type of marketing, so take heed ye marketers. Send me posters and tshirts!

Rails Envy Podcast – Episode #084: 06/24/2009

Episode 84. This week Nathan Bibler joins me to talk about bug fixes of bug fixes, new libraries, video podcasts, Duke Nukem, and Zelda.

Rails Envy Podcast - Episode #084: 06/24/2009

Episode 84. This week Nathan Bibler joins me to talk about bug fixes of bug fixes, new libraries, video podcasts, Duke Nukem, and Zelda.

#316 | “The Best Environment for Rails on Windows” in Category: Installation/Setup/IDEs

»Rails 2.2 – Simpler Conditional Get Support (ETags)«

Double Shot #481

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Quickly export a table to CSV in the rails console with FasterCSV

You could do this in MYSQL, or you could do it in Ruby:

Amazon AWS EC2 RubyOnRails Rails-All-in-one | Rails Fire

Amazon AWS EC2 RubyOnRails Rails-All-in-one

As you may know, standard template “Amazon EC2 Rails-All-in-one-trial” by Amazon AWS is not good… yeap, it is.
Let me show you how fix it by your hads :)

Let’s start.
We have a useful EC2 based on CentOS 5.2. Great enterprise linux for the Rails application.
But Ruby 1.8.5 on aboard, it’s deeply out-of-date…

http://rubyonrails.org/download
We recommend Ruby 1.8.7 for use with Rails. Ruby 1.8.6, 1.8.5, 1.8.4 and 1.8.2 are still usable too, but version 1.8.3 is not.

Well, do you want to run Rails with old Ruby?
If, you have 2 ways to get newer Ruby version:

  • Ruby Enterprise edition as additional package, who need to install from sources (http://www.rubyenterpriseedition.com/download.html). Telling the truth, feel free to install it, very easy.
  • Use extra repo to the CentOS who include good version of Ruby 1.8.6 (patch 111) and other dependent libraries
    http://www.centos.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=1182
    or followed bash scrip 
    #!/bin/bash -e

cat< /etc/yum.repos.d/ruby.repo
[ruby]
name=ruby
baseurl=http://repo.premiumhelp.eu/ruby/
gpgcheck=0
enabled=0
EOF

yum update -y
yum --enablerepo=ruby install ruby -y
yum --enablerepo=ruby install ruby-mysql -y