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So I’ve been using open source for a long time. I’m a huge fan of Linux, Ruby, Rails, Audacity, Firefox, Adium, Pidgin, OpenOffice, etc. That said, I haven’t really given much back to any of those projects. I just kinda mooch. Which is cool, it’s what almost all of us do.

Recently, however, I’ve started playing more on GitHub and have started writing a lot more code for public consumption. While right now it’s just been Rails plugins, it’s been a lot of fun starting to work through the Rails codebase and start seeing how other people think.

Anyways, I … Continue Reading

We recently upgraded our product at work from Rails 1.1.6 to 2.1.1 (that’s another post, coming shortly), and we ran into this error: A copy of TagObserver has been removed from the module tree but is still active!

TagObserver runs any time a Tag gets created, and is referenced in one of our plugins, but after the upgrade, had decided to blow up any time it was run. After a lot of reading, my hypothesis is that the Observer was being referenced from a thread (we do no threading on purpose, but I’ve read that Rails 2.1.1 is working to get … Continue Reading