A minor UI detail in development required that we include the width and height of certain images in the HTML and XML views. Since we were using the file_column plugin, which doesn’t normally save any image information besides the file name, this turned out to require some hacking.
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Due to voracious memory consumption issues that were bringing down the server, I had to upgrade the backgroundrb plugin inside a certain Rails app from version 0.2.1 (from Nov 06) to the latest svn trunk, which uses fork() and exec() properly, and seems to be a near-total rewrite. There were a lot of changes needed. Here is how it was done…