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How to write C extensions easily in Ruby

Posted on November 21, 2012 by Muriel Salvan 2 Comments

Lots of Ruby libraries suffer from performance. It is in fact one of the biggest criticism that is being made to Ruby. There are lots of ways to improve Ruby’s performance: use latest Ruby version, use JRuby, use Ruby Entreprise … Continue reading →

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Howto add email notifications to your Redmine install on Heroku

Posted on October 4, 2012 by Muriel Salvan Leave a comment

After my last post (Howto install Redmine on Heroku), I wanted to enable email notifications on my Redmine install on Heroku. Here is the quick howto. Please note that Heroku does not have its own SMTP server (at least for … Continue reading →

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Howto: Install RMagick on Windows 64 bits

Posted on September 19, 2012 by Muriel Salvan Leave a comment

I ran into a lot of problems trying to install RMagick on my 64bits Windows, but finally succeeded. Here is how: Install ImageMagick: version 6.6.9-5 32 bits. The version is important: I tried with 64bits versions, and also with 6.6.9-9 … Continue reading →

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Full stack integration testing with Rails3: browser-oriented, JavaScript, continuous integration

Posted on July 12, 2012 by Muriel Salvan 4 Comments

This post is a complete summary of all my efforts to have a complete and decent solution to test Rails applications. As it is a long post, here you have the table of contents: Introduction Prerequisite for this tutorial Ruby … Continue reading →

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