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Archive for April, 2008

Announcing the release of this tiny useful plugin AutoTags. A couple of weeks ago I travelled to Mumbai in train which was a long 17hrs journey… and I utilized that by coding down the idea while travelling. So here it comes… AutoTags, an open source project, is a plugin for  [ Read More ]

New in Ruby 1.9: Threads

The ruby is getting changed and improved a lot with every release. No doubt the existing demerits of rails are soon going to be history. Currently for my rails applications I am running Ruby1.8… and exploring 1.9 to get ready as we are heading with nice speed in the rails  [ Read More ]

Avoiding the Distractions

I was reading something about how to avoid the distractions and the article exemplified it using a scene from the Indian mythology ‘Mahabharata’ where the Guru Dronacharya asked all the students to aim at the bird’s eye sitting at a branch of the tree, then he asked what you can  [ Read More ]

There are a couple of ways described in acts_as_solr documentation for the logical search, with AND or OR operations. But I needed to dig a bit into the code as the documentation is not complete and doesn’t suggest all the possible implementations of making the complex Logic Gates for searching.  [ Read More ]

Mongrel to THIN

For Rails applications I am using THIN on my local machine since a couple of weeks and found it better than Mongrel. I’ve started replacing mongrel with THIN on servers as well. THIN leverages the best of the available resources… It uses mongrel’s parser along with the Eventmachine and the  [ Read More ]