Entries from September 2006

September 21, 2006

Send an image

You’d think it would be easy to send an image to a client with a framework as wonderful as Rails. After doing quite a bit of searching for the simple way, I really didn’t turn up too much. Finally, I decided I would just open the file and write it out the old fashioned way: [...]

September 15, 2006

String Concatenation

A reporting application I am working on requires the results of some quite large queries to be parsed and presented to users via a web page. The query timings are an issue themselves, requiring some creative SQL, indexes, views, and some batch jobs to shape the data for the web application to efficiently utilize it [...]