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Hello fellow developer stuck with JRuby, Paperclip file size = 0 issue :) Apparently the Paperclip workaround to report the proper file size doesn’t work with the current implementation of JRuby (Windows XP). This “might” work (not thoroughly tested): iostream.rb
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If your JSP code is almost 2/3rd pure Java code, then you’re doing something wrong. One easy way of knowing Java code from HTML/Snippets is to look at the PALE GREEN (see image for color tone). If
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