Counting Business Days in Ruby on Rails

In case it’s helpful, here is a simple helper to count business days (as weekdays) going forward in rails.

New Site Launch!

It’s been a long time coming, but I’ve finally launched the new site.  Running on a wordpress platform, the site takes advantage of a few very cool plugins.  While I hadn’t worked with wordpress in nearly a year, I have to say I’m very impressed with how far it’s come in that short time and where it appears to be heading.  I remember when I first started using wordpress for development, it was one of several competing bloging engines.  Since then, it’s grown to dominate in terms of self-hosted bloging engines and has grown to be much more adept at handling simple CMS functionality for smaller scale sites.

I hope you like the site!  Please share any feedback you might have!

Migrate Image Files in Paperclip to use id_partition

One of paperclips very cool features is the :id_parition.  By default, ubuntu servers can only store a maxium of 32000 objects in any given directory.  This presents a problem when working with large image sets, like our client GreatAmericanArt’s art catalog.  While our initial server set-up was fine, we migrated to a REE/nginx/passegner set-up on Ubuntu hit this limit.  I wrote the follow ruby script to help migrate from a simple :id asset directory structure to utilizing :id_partition.  It’s pretty basic, but in case it helps anyone out I wanted to put it out there.  Full script after the jump.

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