March 22nd, 2008
Version 1.90.0 of GetText for Ruby has quite some memory leaks in its Rails support files. In my case, the memory Mongrel used increased by 1 MB with each request it served… Quite amazing that you don’t really find someone else having the problem… Well there’s at least a bug report on rubyforge…
Monkey-patching gettext.rb with the following code made things quite more relaxed:
def bound_target(klass = self) # :nodoc:
ret = nil
if klass.kind_of? Class or klass.kind_of? Module
ret = klass
else
ret = klass.class
end
ret = GetText if ret.name =~ /^\#<|^$/
ret
end
The memory usage grows extremly slow now and is acceptable for our current web site traffic.
Plus: It helps to “every now and then” call GetText.clear_cache - which I don’t like because you have to do it “manually”. It would be much better if GetText did its own garbage collection …
Tags: ruby, rails, gettext, memory leak
Posted in Ruby on Rails |
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December 2nd, 2007
Ryan gave the idea and some code for a new ShadedBorder feature. Fat semi-transparent borders:
And thanks alot NewTrax for fixing the hover issues on IE6. It needs a bit more CSS to get going, but will solve any issues. Check out the CSS included in test.html on how to use it.
Ah, right: it’s version 0.6 which has all these features. 
NewTrax and loads of others asked about the progress with the Safari 2 performance. Well… There isn’t… Apparently the problems result from the poor rendering performance of Safari 2 when lots of semi-transparent elements are on your page. As for ShadedBorder, there are millions. 
So maybe it’s a good approach, as NewTrax suggested, to disabled ShadedBorder on Safari 2 - not that bad, at least we’ve got the graceful degradation feature…
Tags: fat transparent borders, shadedborder, ruzee, rounded corners, javascript
Posted in JavaScript, Web Design |
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October 21st, 2007
Yeah well, it was raining… And I’ll be on holiday for quite some days from Tuesday on - without any computer. So this weekend was kind of the perfect time to hack a little bit on my neat little fun project ShadedBorder.
The result: after version 0.3 yesterday, today comes version 0.4. The new features:
- Graceful Degradation: If JavaScript is disabled, your page will look almost as good as if ShadedBorder could do its job.
- Simplified Usage: You no longer have to manually set the “sb” class to the elements you wish to round.
- New example: Not really a feature, but it may help to see what’s really required to use ShadedBorder. Have a look at the source code of this page.
Plus: maybe the IE7 bug is gone… Not really sure about that, because it seems to depend on how you use ShadedBorder…
Tags: shadedborder, ruzee, round corners, drop shadow, javascript, css
Posted in JavaScript, Web Design |
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