It's not exactly new - we covered it on Ruby Inside back in early 2007 - but Geokit, a geocoding and location finder plugin for Rails, has recently been updated and is now Rails 2.2 compatible. Not only that, but it's…
Unless you've been hiding somewhere, you're probably aware that Amazon has built up a comprehensive cloud computing infrastructure featuring a raft of pay-as-you-go services. What you may not know is just how easy it is to integrate most of these services…
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Mike Gunderloy on December 6, 2008 :
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It's a fairly common requirement for Rails applications: allow the user to delete data but provide some sort of safety valve so that it can be restored. After all, users make mistakes, and one mistaken deletion can ruin your whole…
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Mike Gunderloy on November 26, 2008 :
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A surprising number of applications seem to involve storing a tree of similar items out to some arbitrary depth: managers and employees, assemblies and parts, categories for organizing things. Rails doesn't have any native ability to handle a tree structure…
Do you need to use Microsoft's SQL Server as the database system for your Rails application (or, would you like to)? A group of developers (Ken Collins, Murray Steele, Shawn Balestracci, Joe Rafaniello, and Tom Ward) have developed the Rails SQL…
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Mike Gunderloy on November 14, 2008 :
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You've finished the first sprint of your new Rails application and you're ready to show it to the client - or are you? Most user interfaces look better when they're actually filled with data. You could sit down and start…
In Goodbye attachment_fu, hello Paperclip, The Web Fellas present a walkthrough of Paperclip, a new(ish) Rails plugin that makes file (and particularly image) uploads easy. It's well worth a read, especially if you're just starting to develop a new app…
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Mike Gunderloy on November 5, 2008 :
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There are certainly plenty of plugins available to handle authentication in Rails, with perhaps the most commonly-used being Restful Authentication. But there's always room for one more, and the latest I've run across is Ben Johnson's authlogic. It takes a…
Tog is a new extensible open source social networking platform that you can add to your Rails apps developed by Keras Software Development. It
Unlike the incumbent Community Engine, Tog is not a plugin - nor is it a stand alone application…
Community Engine is a free, open source social networking plugin for Rails. All you need to do to add social and community features (e.g. authentication, profiles, blogs, photo management, bookmarks, commenting, forums, friendships) to an existing application is to install the plugin…
The definitive Rails reference - a gazllion pages long and awesome throughout. A true Rails "bible."
An awesomely illustrated Rails book for beginners - a great way to learn Rails
The 3rd edition of the canonical Rails book from Sam Ruby, Dave Thomas, and David Heinemeier Hansson, the creator of Rails himself.