Monthly Archives: February 2009

ImageMagick + rmagick + unknown format: png

By etagwerker | Published: February 24, 2009

Recently I ran into a problem with ImageMagick, rmagick and my Rails application. Somehow my environment was messy and it included varied versions of ImageMagick. This is what I did to solve the problem: 1. Removed all installations of ImageMagick There was one version that was compiled and installed. I uninstalled it doing this: # [...]

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setting up sendmail in EC2

By etagwerker | Published: February 22, 2009

Somehow I noticed that our Drupal wasn’t sending email notifications as it was supposed to. We just migrated a CMS to one of our EC2 instances. I figured that Drupal was using sendmail, as I couldn’t find any SMTP configuration in the administration section. First of all, I checked if sendmail was running: ps -aux [...]

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Rails/Ruby integration with SOAP

By etagwerker | Published: February 15, 2009

The other day I needed to integrate with Lyris ListManager using their API. Their API uses SOAP and my application is on Rails. I started looking for information about Ruby/Rails + SOAP integration and found this article first: http://wiki.rubyonrails.org/rails/pages/HowToUseSOAP4RWithRails That’s how I started. Assuming that you have a running SOAP service on mylistmanager.com:82, here are [...]

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