Rails 2.3: Weird multipart form bug

I don't know about everyone else, but i never never jump on the "work on edge version" cart.
Edge versions, such as the latest Rails 2.3 RC0 release often break a lot of core operations, and that's why it's called RC
Yesterday at #rubyonrails on freenode, some dude came by with weird weird bug regarding one of it's application's forms:
When he has 2 file upload columns, and a free text field between them, upon submitting the form the text area value is no where to be found on the params hash.
After trying to help him and try to approach this matter from several directions with no success, he came up with this ticket he found on the Rails code ticket report system - "Posting a multipart form with file data can break params assignment (in 2.3)".
My advice: wait a while before you use edge, unless you really intend of finiding these bugs, that's OK... just don't try that for production.

Ruby 1.9 is out

source Ruby Inside

Benchmarks say it's twice as fast as 1.8.7, but developers worn not to use it as a production ruby rght away becouse it may a lot of libraries and Gems.
so, be worned.

attachment_fu and minimagick resize bug

In one of my latest projects i was using the attachement_fu plugin to handle image uploads.
The attachement_fu plugin enables the option to select an image processor engine between ImageScience, Rmagick add MiniMagick:

1. Rmagick
   Kinda bulky, leaking but fully functional
   
2. MiniMagick
   Simple version of Rmagick, simple and small.
3. ImageSceince
   Small, nice, and quick.

i decided to use MiniMagick as my processor, i installed the gem:

 sudo gem install mini_magick

and added a specific :processor option to my Logo model.

has_attachment :content_type => :image, 
                   :storage => :file_system, 
                   :max_size => 2.megabytes,
                   :resize_to => 'x100',
                   :processor => :mini_magick

but when i was uploading an image, i was was expecting it to be resized based on the options i specified in the model. imagine how surprised i was when i found out that the image is not being resized.

checking the log found the following error:

Exception working with image: ImageMagick command (identify "/var/folders/Bv/Bvbna8-OH548ZWju8naF4U+++TI/-Tmp-/minimagick11451-0") failed: Error Given 32512

Googling it didn't help me much (except from finding other people with the same problem), so i decided to switch to ImageScience instead (RMagick is out of the question of course).

 sudo gem install image_science

this will include all most all dependencies, the freeImage dependency is also needed.
us mac/darwin users can simply use port:

  sudo port selfupdate
  sudo port install freeimage

now change the processor in the model

has_attachment :content_type => :image, 
                   :storage => :file_system, 
                   :max_size => 2.megabytes,
                   :resize_to => 'x100',
                   :processor => :image_science

and now it's working. yeah!.

IE Testing: Internet Explorer cannot open the Internet site. Operation aborted.

haaah... the joy of working with IE never ceases to amaze me. I was trying to test one of my pages on IE7 when this ruthless message arrived uninvited, needless to say that the immediate action that IE preforms is to redirect you to a 404 default page, discarding from you the option of viewing some Javascript errors and basically take care of the problem.

The Issue:
Internet Explorer 6 and 7 are getting really upset when you don't give them the chance to render the entire HTML, and preform a DOM related actions (appending/removing child elements for an instance).
This is mostly a response to a >script< tag containing a DOM changing javascript.

Solution:
If you are using JQuery like i am, use the document.ready function around your inline