PDF in rails using prawn library

by sandipransing, posted in Ruby

Building PDF Document in ruby & rails application using prawn LibraryBriefBefore getting started with this tutorial, I would like to thanks Greg and Prawn team for their awesome work towards ruby and rails community.Installing prawn (core, layout, format, security)gem install prawnorAdd following line in rails environment file inside initializer block.config.gem 'prawn'Optionally you can specify version … Continue reading PDF in rails using prawn library

Load Testing and Setting Benchmarks

by Gautam Rege, posted in Ruby on Rails

A lot has been said about load testing and performance testing already -- I do not intend to repeat the dose. However, I have found that there is indeed very little information about what is a good test for load and performance.  Services like NewRelic are awesome but they will monitor performance and the ideal … Continue reading Load Testing and Setting Benchmarks

Video encoding with Encoding.com and Rackspace Cloudfiles

by Gautam Rege, posted in Ruby on Rails

We have been working with a couple of media centric web-portals which require video encoding, storage and streaming. Initial guidance and research showed us a couple of successful approaches: Heywatch! with Amazon S3 / Amazon CloudFront encoding.com with S3 / Cloudfiles / Limelight CDN solution After some deliberation and talks we finally settled on encoding.com … Continue reading Video encoding with Encoding.com and Rackspace Cloudfiles