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If you are running a consultancy business, or even thinking about it, this post is a must read for you.

The comments are sometimes even more interesting then the post itself, some very interesting discussions were ignited by this post.

Lessons Learned: The First Six Months of Running a Software Consultancy.

Right now, I am working on an engine for the Gogobot application.

As part of my work on the engine, I am working with the Mongoid gem and the Fabrication gem, both great gems b.t.w.

The problem with Fabrication is that it wasn’t really adapted to working with Engines and it was relying a lot on Rails.root for where to locate the fabricator files.

Since in an engine, the application is located in spec/dummy I needed a better way locate the fabricators.

ok… so far the story of how I got to even writing this post.

If you’re following this blog (and of course you should), you know by now that I have been upgrading a bug project to rails 3. One of the things that I needed to do was to upgrade RubyGems.

Since I did not make the switch completely (production still on rails 2.3.10), I’m fixing p0 bugs on the old project and merging the changes.

One problem I encountered is that rails 2.3.10 does not run with the latest RubyGems.

Sometimes, in your application you have a tree that has many nodes, folders, sub-folders and many items.

Often, this tree needs to have a scroll bar, and usually you want the scroll to be on the spot with the selected item.

I recently encountered some weird solutions for this in a company I work for these days, I have actually seen a custom control with saving the scroll position in memory, height calculations for items and many more “solutions”.