Ma.gnolia: Aurelian Oancea's Bookmarks Tagged With "Rails"

Block level helpers in Ruby on Rails

aurelian — Thu, 08 May 2008 03:07:14 PDT

Web developer often comes to a situation where he needs to “decorate” a block of a page. There is a simple solution and simple and elegant solution. Helpers concept in Ruby on Rails is very powerful and will be used to do the trick.

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Tags: Rails, Helpers, Code, Development

FrozenGemsGenerator

aurelian — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 07:07:21 PST

"The frozen_gems generator gives your Rails application its own private gem library, in vendor/gems, and a script/gem command for managing that library." I was looking for something like this a month ago.

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Tags: Rails, Rails Plugins, Ruby, Code, Development, Gems

Rails Messaging Tutorial

aurelian — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 23:23:21 PST

could be useful.

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Tags: Rails, Tutorials, Code

dynamic-file-store - Google Code

aurelian — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 02:19:52 PST

Dynamic File Store, an alternative to the default Rails fragment cache store, simplifies the process of defining these cache fragments, alleviating you from ever having to think about manually expiring fragments.

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Tags: Code, Rails, Rails Plugins, Caching, Performance, Development

YARB: How 7 Mongrels Handled a 550k Pageview Digging

aurelian — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 02:18:34 PST

mongrel (developed by Zed Shaw ) took, as Zed might say, a “beating like a Tijuana hooker” here, but lived to see the light of day.

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Tags: Deployment, Scaling, Rails, Rails Tips, Rails Plugins, Development

Paypal IPN in Rails with Active Merchant | opensoul.org

aurelian — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 06:16:02 PST

Short and nice tutorial on using Paypal from Rails with Active Merchant plugin.

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Tags: Code, Development, Rails, Ruby, Rails Plugins, Active Merchant, Paypal

background_fu

aurelian — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 02:42:15 PST

Background tasks made dead simple.

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Tags: Code, Developemnt, DRb, Ruby, Gems, Rails, Rails Plugins

Ryans Scraps: Rails 2.0 Final Released! - Summary of Features

aurelian — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 05:22:56 PST

Rails 2.0 is out?

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Tags: Code, Development, Rails, Rails2.0

Sexy Time Zones in Ruby on Rails with Timezone_Fu « Hack’d - Great Stuff for Web Hackers

aurelian — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 13:11:49 PST

As easy as has_timezone :fields => [ :start_datetime, :end_datetime].

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Tags: Code, Rails, Rails Plugins, Development, Timezone, Timezone_Fu

Fortytwo.gr - Blog - Using Paypal with Rails

aurelian — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 12:01:38 PST

Explains how to use paypail to handle electronic payment in your rails application

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Tags: Code, Rails, Rails Plugins, PayPal, Development

Taming Beast: How to Extend Beast using Plugins

aurelian — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 07:45:56 PST

If you’re building a Ruby on Rails application and are in need of some forums functionality, you’ve most likely have looked into Beast

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Tags: Code, Ruby, Rails, Beast, Forum, Beast Plugins, Code For Beast, Rails Integration, Development

A Fair Proxy Balancer for Nginx and Mongrel

aurelian — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 02:00:38 PST

So EngineYard.com put out a bounty on getting a fair proxy balancer that would keep track of when a mongrel is busy and not send requests to it until it has finished and is ready to take requests. [....] Grzegorz Nosek has stepped up to claim the bounty and has done a wonderful job of making this work very nicely. this is not a production release but I wanted to get this out there to get some testing from interested parties.

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Tags: Code, Development, Deployment, Nginx, Nginx Plugins, Ruby, Rails, Mongrel

restful_authentication login security

aurelian — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 23:02:20 PST

A very good security catch in the very popular restful_authentication plugin. Double check.

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Tags: Code, Ruby, Rails, Rails Plugins, restful_authentication

code_fu - AJAX file uploads in Rails using attachment_fu and responds_to_parent

aurelian — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 06:26:36 PDT

attachment_fu to ajax kungfu

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Tags: Code, Rails, Ruby, Rails Plugins, Rails Tips, Tutprials, AJAX, Upload Progress

Data Constellation. How to ruin a Rails project

aurelian — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 11:58:41 PDT

Discipline? Who needs discipline or forethought when you’re agile?

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Tags: Rails, Rails Tips, Code, Ruby, Deployment

has_many_polymorphs for dummies

aurelian — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 11:48:48 PDT

We have a Person. A Person can own several types of items: Dvds, Books, Cars, Ferraris in all colors. Ferraris are not Cars; they clearly deserve their own model.

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Tags: Rails, Code, Rails Plugins, Development

Nginx, my new favorite front end for mongrel cluster.

aurelian — Sat, 20 Oct 2007 09:44:19 PDT

Its called nginx(which I have been pronouncing in my head as ‘engine x ;).

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Tags: Nginx, Code, Rails, Deployment

The If Works · PackR

aurelian — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 13:55:57 PDT

PackR is a Ruby port of Dean Edwards’ MIT-licensed JavaScript compressor, Packer. It is made available as a plugin for Ruby on Rails.

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Tags: Rails, Rails Plugins, JSCompresar, Code, Development

Our first plugin: acts_as_fulltextable on The Wonsys Blog

aurelian — Sat, 13 Oct 2007 00:35:36 PDT

We’ve never been really happy with what was available to perform full-text searches in Rails.

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Tags: Ruby, Rails, Rails Plugins, acts_as_fulltexttable, Development, Code, Search

thoughtbot: Shoulda testing plugin

aurelian — Sat, 13 Oct 2007 00:30:47 PDT

Shoulda Rails plugin makes it easy to write elegant, understandable, and maintainable tests. Shoulda consists of test macros, assertions, and helpers added on to the Test::Unit framework. It’s fully compatible with your existing tests, and requires no retooling to use.

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Tags: Ruby, Code, Rails, Rails Plugins, Unit Testing, Development