Day: December 3, 2007

  • XSLT and Ruby/Rails

    While adding REST support for Libraryfind, I found that I wanted to provide an output in XML, but that could also provide HTML if an XSLT was attached.  In Rails, generating XML files is actually pretty easy.  In Rails, output is specified in views.  HTML views are created using a .rhtml extension, while xml views…

  • LibraryFind installation: dealing with problems relating to openssl and rubygems

    I was installing LibraryFind on a server at Willamette University the other day for testing purposes, and ran into something that I had never seen before.  While setting up the dependencies on the test server, I found that the current version of ruby found in the distro’s YUM repository was old (1.8.5), so I decided…

  • LibraryFind 0.8.5: threading and XSLT and REST, Oh my

    At present, I’m wrapping up the back-end changes to what will be LibraryFind 0.8.5.  Yup, we’ll be skipping 0.8.4 in part because I’d like the release point to represent the broadness of the changes being made.  In fact, had the UI portions of the code been modified to completely support the new back-end searching, we’d…