The Wonsys Blog

If you’re spreading constants around your environments files to configure your Rails apps based on the environment it is running on, stop immediately! Let’s say it’s not very wise… ;) There’s no point in having lots of different constants all around your code that basically all do the same thing: configure your app.

Instead, you should do [...]

We’re finally ready to announce another client project we’ve been working on since the end of Spring: Pixménage.

Pixménage allows photographers to manage their digital — or digital-ized, as I prefer them ;) — photos with ease. You can create an online portfolio and share photos with clients and colleagues, or even family. It’s a great archiving tool, [...]

Last week, we officially closed the beta for a client project we’ve been working on for the past 5 months. The project is called Episode39: it’s a website for TV shows lovers. Unfortunately, it’s in Italian only, so most of you won’t be able to use it.

We were in charge of the development of the platform [...]

Tomorrow, we’re heading towards Pisa, where, on Friday and Saturday, Rails to Italy will be held.

A lot of smart people are talking and I’m sure it’ll be a great conference. We’re organizing a Web development panel on the second day, so make sure you stop by if you can.

If anyone is coming, we’ll be very happy [...]

There’s one thing that has always bugged me: when using Sendmail to deliver email from Action Mailer in Ruby on Rails, it always takes a few seconds for the email to be sent, thus slowing down whatever task the user is trying to accomplish. When, for example, a user signs up for your service, you might [...]

Update (05/10/2007): we’ve moved the plugin to Google Code.

We’ve never been really happy with what was available to perform full-text searches in Rails. We tried a whole bunch of different plugins — most notably actsasferret and actsassphinx –, but none seemed to work as expected.

Ferret is great, but we couldn’t determine why it was throwing all [...]