Cookieless sessions in Rails

We’re running an application on Facebook and are using the iframe setting. One of the disadvantages of this approach is that certain browsers, by default, will not accept cookies from third parties. In our situation, the third party is our application. Somewhat surprisingly the default privacy settings on the various browsers are not as you’d [...]

links for 2008-04-17

The Thing About Git
(tags: git versioncontrol)

Git - Fast Version Control System
(tags: git)

Passenger users guide
(tags: apache rails passenger)

IMageMagick on Ubuntu 7.04 - libMagickWand.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

The Rmagic docs have this FAQ:
Help! I’m getting the message “libMagickWand.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory” I know ImageMagick is installed! What should I do?
The full text of the message is:
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rmagick-2.2.2/lib/RMagick2.so:
libMagickWand.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or
directory - /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rmagick-2.2.2/lib/RMagick2.so
(LoadError)
The message will be slightly different if you are [...]

Facebook development: choosing FBML or iframe as your application type

After lots of deliberation on the subject of which application type to use - FBML or iframe - we settled on a kludgey iframe/FBML hybrid, which basically means selecting ‘FBML’ as the app type and then making use of the <fb:iframe/> tag. This was in large part due to the fact that iframe didn’t [...]

Upgrading to Rails 2.0: template considerations

Rails 2.0 has better support for multiviews. I was aware of this having briefly read about it in the Rails blog, but didn’t pay a ton of attention until something wasn’t working the way it used to. I had a controller action that I wanted handeled by two different templates depending on the request [...]