This is a quickie mainly to remind myself. My friend and fellow Fudge developer, Mike “1312” Byrne showed me a CSS trick to have divs clear themselves.
div#container
{
height: 1%;
}

div#container:after
{
content: “.”;
display: block;
height: 0;
clear: both;
visibility: hidden;
}
Brilliant. This works in Safari, Firefox and IE6+ as far as I know.

This is a just a quick post that will hopefully save some people a hell of a lot of time.
If you’re trying to get the width and height of a flash file, a banner for example, then you can use the ImageSpec library by Brandon Anderson.
You can checkout the code with the following:
svn checkout http://ruby-imagespec.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ [...]

I probably should have done this sooner but I’ve finally got around to updating Bort to Rails 2.2
Here are some other changed.
Will_paginate, AASM, Rspec and Rspec-rails updated to gems
I’ve decided to remove the above plugins and unpack the most recent version into the vendor/gems directory. The main reason is its easier to keep track of [...]