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ChartDirector, the flagship (only?) product from a company called Advanced Software Engineering, is remarkably good. It's not the prettiest thing around, but I've been working with it extensively recently in high-intensity graphing software I've been writing. This little sucker is fast and flexible. It has libraries and documentation for an array ...

I was attempting to watermark an uploaded image using attachment_fu for uploads and the mini_magick gem for processing. I received an odd little error that Google doesn't seem to have many answers for. That error is Error 256. This is what I was doing: after_attachment_saved do |image| if image.thumbnail.nil? ...

In my latest Rails project I needed a quick way to return a string if that string happened to be blank, and also a way to return a different string if the existing string is set. Here's the solution I came up with which I placed in extras.rb in my ...