Bibliographic Wilderness

I’ve been writing ruby and rails for nearly 20 years.

I am doing LLM “RAG” with rails ActiveRecord, postgres with the pgvector extension for vector similarity searches, and the neighbor gem.

i know Des Revol, and know them to be an incredibly kind, solid, reliable person.

Here at the Science History Institute, we have a fairly small, but growing, body of video/film in our Digital Collections, at present just over 100 items, around 70 hours total.

I work at a non-profit academic institution, on a site that manages, searches, and displays digitized historical materials: The Science History Institute Digital Collections.

We test our Rails app with rspec and capybara.

I am writing some code that does some smoke tests with capybara in a browser of some Javascript code.

I am, unusually for me, spending some time writing some non-trivial Javascript, using ES modules.

We have long used the free OCLC AssignFAST API to power an auto-suggest/auto-complete in some of our staff metadata entry forms.

At the Science History Institute Digital Collections, we have a public collection of digitized historical materials (mostly photographic images of pages).

attr_json is basically an ActiveRecord extension.

I started rubyland.news a few years ago because it was a thing I wanted to see for the Ruby community.

tldr practical advice for google: If you use resque 3.6.0 or less, and Rails 7.1, and are getting an error: cannot load such file -- rack/showexceptions — you probably need to add rack "~> 2.0" to your Gemfile!

I’m not totally sure what happened, but the tldr is that at the end of last week, our video.js-played HLS videos served from an S3 bucket — via CloudFront — appears to have started requiring us to list “HEAD” in the “AllowedMethods” for CORS configuraton,…

At the Science History Institute Digital Collections, we have a fairly small collection compared to some peers (~70,000 images) of historical materials.

Some great things about conferences is how different sessions can play off each other, and how lots of people interested in the same thing are in the same place (virtual or real) at the same time, to bounce ideas off each other.

Thanks to zverok_kha’s awesome writeup of Ruby changes, I noticed a new method released in ruby 3.2: CGI.escapeURIComponent This is the right thing to use if you have an arbitrary string that might include characters not legal in a URI/URL, and you want to

attr_json is a gem to provide attributes in ActiveRecord that are serialized to a JSON column, usually postgres jsonb, multiple attributes in a json hash.

I started rubyland.news in 2016 because it was a thing I wanted to see for the ruby community.

I recently switched to vite and vite-ruby for managing my JS and CSS assets in Rails.