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WyeWorks Blog - The Team's Voice
http://blog.wyeworks.com
Web 2.0 development firm blog specialized in agile development using Ruby on Rails and agile methodologies, mainly Scrum with some XP practices like TDD and pair programming.
Recent Posts
Modifying Recurring Billing Transactions
Ok, it’s been some time we don’t post something in the blog, past weeks have been crazy at the office but now everything is back to normal, hopefully. In this post I just want to tell that we added an extra ability to the recurring billing for...
Active Merchant Recurring Billing
Working on a payment system we had to sort some difficulties when making recurring payments using active merchant. Why? Because we needed to use BeanStream gateway and active merchant does not support recurring billing for this gateway yet. So I just...
Generating PDF with odf-report and images support
Well i guess many of you might have checked the last edition of the Rails Magazine. If not, you may should. In particular one of the articles by Rodrigo Rosenfeld Rosas talks about PDF generation with odf templates, something I’ve been playing a...
My Emacs for Rails
I’d like to share with the community my emacs init file and a set of plugins to give a nicer experience on Ruby on Rails development, which you can checkout from http://github.com/spastorino/my_emacs_for_rails/tree/master. I have been using this e...
Scheduling in Ruby
Scheduling tasks is something we all need to know to do, for it’s quite common in applications. Fetching feeds, indexing some data, processing files at a periodical time, that happens a lot. You are probably quite familiar then with the linux cron,...
Method missing to simplify queries to an external service
I know there are several discussions on the usage of method_missing in Ruby. In this post i’ll present a pretty simple, yet useful solution that uses method_missing to interact with the Brightcove Media Read API (you don’t need to be familiar wit...
