Ma.gnolia: Ivan Storck's Bookmarks Tagged With "rubyonrails"

BenCurtis.com » RESTful searching in Rails

2008-07-01T08:09:22-07:00

A really simple implementation of the most basic type of searching you can do in a Rails application. It just so happens that this method will also handle the bulk of your searching needs

Ethilien :: Better Redirects in Rails

2008-06-16T12:24:50-07:00

some tricks he's developed for handling a few special types of redirects a bit more gracefully in Ruby on Rails.

How to Create an Image Selection Plugin for tinyMCE with Ruby on Rails « Hack’d - Great Stuff for Web Hackers

2008-06-05T18:01:39-07:00

How to make an image selector for TinyMCE in Rails

Rapid Rails Part 1: Command-line mastery

2008-03-31T07:07:56-07:00

Rapid Rails is a series of articles containing succinct tips to increase your productivity when working with Ruby on Rails. This is the first part, and shows you how to make the most of the command-line tools that come with Rails.

acts_as_paranoid and acts_as_versioned at Off you go… into the purple yonder!

2008-03-09T09:28:15-07:00

So you’re writing a web-based application and you want journalling: when database records change, you want to keep track of the changes so that you have an audit trail. There are many ways to do this.

Ruby on Rails: RSpec Tutorial

2008-03-08T13:02:16-08:00

tutorials on the RSpec framework with the intention of build a comprehensive guide to Behaviour Driven Development with RSpec. As of this posting, the existing tutorials need a bit of reorganizing, but there's plenty of helpful stuff on there for now.

Ruby on Rails SEO Tips

2008-03-02T08:10:25-08:00

This article focuses on how you can improve the search engine optimization (SEO) of your Rails site the Ruby way

Testing your Rails views with Hpricot — Luke Redpath

2008-02-29T00:17:57-08:00

Rails comes with the built-in assert_tag method but I've always found it clunky and a pain in the arse to use. By combining the Hpricot library and a few useful helper functions, you can now test the output of your Rails views in Test::Unit::TestCase easily using Hpricot's support for CSS selector searches.

Null is Love » Ruby on Rails

2008-02-28T04:50:49-08:00

Great series on learning testing and TDD on ruby on rails

OpenID-2.0.2 with Rails-2.0.2

2008-02-28T04:37:32-08:00

How to use OpenID with Rails 2.0.2

AJAX with acts_as_commentable

2008-02-20T15:11:12-08:00

How to combine the acts_as_commentable plugin with AJAX commenting

assert{ 2.0 } - O'Reilly Ruby

2008-02-15T09:48:54-08:00

Phlip likea developer tests, but he doesn’t like the primitive assertions - assert_equal, assert_match, assert_not_nil, etc. They only exist for one reason - to print out their input values when they fail. And they don’t even reflect their variable names. So Phlip wrote an assertion to replace all of them. Put whatever you want into it; it prints out your expression, and all its values.

Code Intensity: Auto-Complete Text Fields in Rails 2

2008-02-14T08:27:48-08:00

In Rails 2, the PrototypeHelper and ScriptaculousHelper code was removed to plugins. This means that doing auto-complete for various fields was no longer part of the base Rails. I didn't find any great, straight-forward docs on how to do this for Rails 2.x, so am sharing what I've done to hopefully help others

Starting Ruby on Rails: What I Wish I Knew | BetterExplained

2008-02-08T00:01:35-08:00

Ruby on Rails is an elegant, compact and fun way to build web applications. Unfortunately, many gotchas await the new programmer. Now that I have a few rails projects under my belt, here’s my shot at sparing you the suffering I experienced when first getting started.

Managing Rails Plugins with Piston

2008-02-07T21:49:35-08:00

Piston is a tool for keeping bits and pieces of your Subversion repository in sync with a remote repository. Like svn:externals, but better. How? With Piston, you import a remote repository and check it into your local repository. You can then go nuts modifying it or periodically sync it up with its remote origin using piston update.

Generating new gems for graceful goodliness

2008-02-06T05:39:11-08:00

Now you can take any library or Rails plugin or command line application, gemify it, and easily share it with the Ruby world.

thoughtbot: Projects - Squirrel

2008-01-07T03:51:20-08:00

Squirrel is an enhancement for ActiveRecord’s find method that allows programmers to query the database using a more Rubyish syntax.

10 Ruby On Rails Plugins You Should Be Using

2007-12-19T01:21:42-08:00

One of Ruby on Rails strengths is how easy it is to extend with Ruby Gems and plugins, becuase you don’t have to code everything yourself you can save a lot of time. One problem facing Rails codes is knowing what plugins are out there and how to use them. The following is a list of 10 plugins that should make your coding life much easier and save you a fair bit of time.

This One Blog: Starting ruby's gem_server in OS X Leopard

2007-12-09T17:56:28-08:00

how to make gem_server run, and make it run when you log in

WYM on Rails

2007-11-19T12:36:18-08:00

what you see is what you mean editor for rails WYSIWYM

BenCurtis.com » OpenID Sample Application

2007-11-16T13:08:45-08:00

Here’s a follow-up to my instructions on integrating OpenID with ActsAsAuthenticated: a full, sample Ruby on Rails application that provides an example of how to use OpenID. Much like the caboose sample app(s), this is intended to be a good starting point for building your own application with OpenID baked in from the beginning.

RedHill Consulting, Pty. Ltd. - Enterprise Ruby on Rails Plugins

2007-11-12T09:58:40-08:00

Rails plugins, mostly activerecord

New ez_where plugin.

2007-08-27T14:20:58-07:00

So me and my friend Fabien Franzen have been busy creating the new ez_where plugin. It's been totally revamped with many additions to the ease of use and the syntax.

Ruby / Rails Mindmaps: Make gedit behave roughly like Textmate

2007-08-21T23:46:54-07:00

I stumbled upon an interesting blog post, which is describing howto change gedit to behave roughly like textmate. I use ubuntu freisty fawn on my devlepoment machines and it took me more than an hour to get clear about the things i have to change. Because i have to maintain some more developing machines, i packed together some useful plugins ready for copy and paste.

A taxonomy of Rails plugins

2007-08-17T15:03:40-07:00

A common stumbling block for Rails developers is learning the basics required to write plugins. This is made more complicated by the fact that Ruby is inherently dynamic and offers many techniques for code reuse. Luckily, if you can write Rails applicatio

a work on process » OpenID for a Ruby on Rails app

2007-08-17T09:09:56-07:00

James Stewart is a freelance web developer, writer and researcher. Available for projects of any size and with a wide range of skills to help make your project a success.

MySQL and Ruby on Rails datatypes | Orthogonal Thought

2007-08-13T05:28:05-07:00

One of the best features of Ruby on Rails is the ability to interact with database tables as objects using ActiveRecord. Sometimes documentation can be a bit spotty, but after searching for a little bit it’s not hard to find the mapping from Rails Migrati

Juixe TechKnow » Acts As Voteable Rails Plugin

2007-08-08T10:50:48-07:00

Right on the heels of my release of acts_as_commentable, I am now making available a acts_as_voteable Ruby on Rails plugin. The Acts As Voteable plugin allows for model to be voted on by users.

Rails rake tasks to sync your remote database to your local development environment

2007-08-02T22:35:50-07:00

So, you’re managing or developing a Ruby on Rails application that you deploy regularly using Capistrano (as any sane Rails developer should), and you want a really easy way to sync up the database on your remote production server with the development environment you have running on your local machine. This is really useful for debugging your app, especially if you have a lot of user-generated content. It’s also just really helpful for design and development if your local environment looks exactly the same as your live environment.

mirRoR Placement

2007-08-01T16:09:35-07:00

ruby on rails jobs