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rb_iterate replaced by rb_block_call API between Ruby 1.8 and 1.9

Posted on January 10, 2013 by Muriel Salvan Leave a comment

You may have noticed that some Ruby libraries using C extensions were suddenly having core dumps when compiled using Ruby 1.9, whereas compiling with Ruby 1.8 got no problems. A good culprit might be the usage of rb_iterate method in … Continue reading →

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Migrating big applications from Rails 2 to Rails 3

Posted on December 19, 2012 by Muriel Salvan 1 Comment

Today will have a rather long and technical post, focused on all the steps needed for migrating big applications from Rails 2 to Rails 3. First question: why bother? Rails 2 is great, but Rails 3 is awesome. Apart from … Continue reading →

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