A specially crafted JPEG or TIFF image could force EXIFR in an endless loop. The problem is solved in release 0.10.6. If you are using EXIF Reader without having control over the images fed to it, upgrade as soon as possible.
Write a comment ››The recent Ruby 1.9 release adds a lot of new stuff but unfortunately some of the changes prevented EXIF Reader from working. A slight case-syntax change (colon being deprecated), String no longer being Enumerable and IO becoming more character aware, broke my code.
The new 0.10.5 release runs on both 1.8 and 1.9.
Write a comment ››EXIF Reader includes the ability to read thumbnails from JPEG again. This feature disappeared from EXIFR when in rewrote most of it to support TIFF reading.
Write a comment ››I’ve released a new version of EXIF Reader. Just one small change; JPEG and TIFF objects can now be safely loaded and dumped from and to YAML. To get this to work I made a change to the orientation property; it returns an instance of Orientation now instead of a module. The returned object responds to the same methods as the module did so the upgrade should be painless.
Write a comment ››Last week at RailsConf Europe I met some people who are using my ActiveForm code to make forms in their Rails sites. It’s about time to wrap it up as a plugin, so here it is.
From the README:This plugin provides a base class for making forms with ActiveRecord validations without having a corresponding database table. You can use ActiveForm for:Installation:
- making forms which don’t needed storage, like simple email forms
- provide extra validations on existing ActiveRecord models
- make forms for composite objects
script/plugin install http://svn.remvee.net/plugins/active_form
I know, there already is a plugin called active_form but I don’t like it. It doesn’t provide a “real” AR object causing all kinds of things to not work (like ActiveRecordHelper#form and DateHelper#datetime_select for instance), it doesn’t include any tests and my version is a lot simpler (flog score 20 versus 74).
Why not change the name? I like it! If you can come up with something better, please leave a comment.
Both JRuby super hero’s, Charles and Thomas, will be talking about JRuby tomorrow at Stroom Hotel in Rotterdam. Come and find out why having a Ruby interpreter on the Java platform is a “good thing”.
Registration seminar@finalist.com.
I’ve released a new version of EXIF Reader between changing diapers;
Check it out:
gem install exifr
Fueled by a post by Danny. My take on the Java versus Ruby hype.
I am growing more and more tired of the comparison between Java and Ruby. They just don’t match.
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