Joseph Palermo's blog
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"When using the wkhtmltopdf library via the PDFKit gem, if you use an HTML snippet that does not have a height defined, it generates a PDF that appears to only be an image, the text is not searchable or selectable. If you give your element a height however, it behaves as you would expect. Both PDF documents visually look the same though."
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"Trying to write a custom Rails I18n exception handler to catch MissingTranslationData exceptions"
The API didn't seem to do what it claimed it should.
"RubyMine EAP undo behavior seems broken, it only wants to undo a file deletion, and then go back no farther in history."
It was suggested that RubyMine undo is context sensitive, and having focus on the file browser has a different undo stack from the editor window.
"mysql2 gem on Lion is giving us an error: "Library not loaded... Image not found" and then a path pointing down into our RVM directory."
Building the gem with options pointing to your mysql directory was suggested.
Interesting Things
"git checkout -" will toggle you between your last two checkouts (branches or just plain SHA's). Handy if you are switching back and forth. Can't seem to find it mentioned anywhere in the docs though.