Here is my HTML number formatter. Sometimes the browsers wrap the numbers along thousand separator or decimal pont, but this function prevents this event.

function html_number_format($number, $decimals = 2, $dec_point = '.', $thousands_sep = ',') {
  if ($number === FALSE) {
    return '---';
  }
  return '<span style="white-space: nowrap;">'.number_format($number, $decimals, $dec_point, $thousands_sep).'</span>';
}

See the following code:

Make config.ru with following content:

require 'rubygems'
require 'sinatra'
require './my_sinatra_application.rb'

run Sinatra::Application

You have to run bundle command. This will be install all necessary gems that listed in Gemfile.

You find debug log in default apache 2 error log files. This is /var/log/apache2/error.log in my case.

This small tutorial work on Ubuntu Hardy (8.04), Lucid 10.04 and Maverick (10.10)

Install Imagemagick and GraphicsMagick

apt-get install imagemagick graphicsmagick

Install Image Magick development files

apt-get install libmagickcore-dev libmagickwand-dev

gem install rmagick

On Hardy:
Install imagemagick from source and after it install development files:

Padrino is a ruby framework built upon the excellent Sinatra Microframework.


$ padrino g project blog -d mongomapper -t rspec -s jquery -e haml -c compass
create
create config.ru
create public/favicon.ico
create config/apps.rb
create config/boot.rb
create app
create app/app.rb
create app/controllers
create app/helpers
create .components
create Gemfile
Applying 'mongomapper' (orm)...
apply orms/mongomapper
inject Gemfile

I've read a great article about 960.gs and compass comparison. This article may help you chose the right CSS framework for your project.

There are some easy steps to install Phusion Passenger for ruby 1.9.2 and apache2 on Ubuntu Linux.

1. Install rvm system wide

sudo bash < <( curl -L http://bit.ly/rvm-install-system-wide )


2. Install ruby 1.9.2

rvm install 1.9.2


3. add new line in /etc/bash.bashrc

[[ -s /usr/local/lib/rvm ]] && . /usr/local/lib/rvm


4. install passenger

sudo -i # you need root shell
rvm use 1.9.2-p0@global # or your version, use: rvm list

I share my Timer class with you. This is an easy to use class. If you use this you will never have to think about the way of execution time measuring.

You can read about two popular thumbnail generating methods in this article. The first method requires GD library. If you select the other way you need Imagick which is a native php extension to create and modify images using the ImageMagick API. Let's see the code!

http://bitprison.net/system/files/gd.jpeg


//include('tmp/Timer.php');

function gd_thumbnail($filename, $width = 200, $height = 200) {
$source = imageCreateFromString(file_get_contents($filename));
$x = imageSX($source);
$y = imageSY($source);

if ($x > $y) { // landscape orientation
$height = intval($y/($x/$width));
} else { // square or portrait orientation
$width = intval($x/($y/$height));
}

$destination = ImageCreateTrueColor($width,$height);