Monthly Archives: April 2010

setting word bookmarks from ruby

%B %e%q, %Y – %I:%M %p

The easy solution to set a bookmark inside a Word-document: This will work, and will replace the bookmark with the text you wanted to insert. Recently i had to convert a document that was first built using mail-merge. I am not very familiar with mail-merge, but it seems a specific field can occur multiple times [...]

By nathanvda | Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged , , | Comments (0)

mongrel_service alternative: using thin and srvany

%B %e%q, %Y – %I:%M %p

So i am developing and deploying Ruby on Rails applications on Windows. Recently i started experimenting with the newer versions of ruby (mingw32 platform). One of the side-effects is that the mongrel-service, which i always used to deploy my rails-applications no longer works on mingw32. And aside of that, i have read on various instances [...]

By nathanvda | Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged , , , , | Comments (8)

ruby-oci8 on x64: not a valid win32 executable

%B %e%q, %Y – %I:%M %p

working on Windows Server 2008R2 64-bit, installing ruby 1.8.7, ruby-oci8 ran into the following error, after requiring ‘oci8′ : LoadError 193: %1 is not a valid Win32 application On this machine a 64bit version of Oracle was installed. So the OCI.dll was a 64-bit version. The fix seemed easy: copy a 32-bit version of the [...]

By nathanvda | Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged , , , , | Comments (3)