Mar 4 2010

jruby-openssl gem issue

While playing with the awesome Ruby-processing library recently, I had issue loading any rubygem inside the processing code. Whenever I would try to load one, it would throw this Jruby exception:

Exception in thread "Animation Thread" file:/*/.rvm/gems/jruby-1.4.0/gems/ruby-processing-1.0.8/lib/core/jruby-complete.jar!/META-INF/jruby.home/lib/ruby/site_ruby/shared/jruby/openssl/autoloads/ssl.rb:8: OpenSSL::SSL requires the jruby-openssl gem (LoadError)

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Sep 2 2009

Tibhar Nianmor Review

Recently, I got to try out this new Tibhar rubber that has been hyped(maybe over-hyped) in Europe. The main selling point of course is unlike those ESN rubbers, Nianmor is made in Japan and can be a good rival to Tenergy series from Butterfly. Although I have used max version of Sinus and tenergy 05 before, for some reason I decided to pick 2.0 version Nianmor for my forehand(in Jpen). Continue reading


Aug 13 2009

Recaptcha undefined problem

There are various places where we have added recaptcha in our rails app. Afer deploying to staging environment, I realized it wasn’t working properly and Firebug captured this error:

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Apr 1 2009

Objective C/Cocoa Learning curve

Lately I have been getting pretty motivated to learn Objective-C and it’s been a fun process so far. However, having done Ruby and rails for over a year now, it’s definitely a challenge to grasp Objective-C. Ruby definitely spoils you, and I feel I have fallen in that trap and now slowly trying to get out of the hole. On more than one occasion I have been tempted to do this: Continue reading