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Rails Documentation Fund

over 5 years ago by Bob Silva on I.NFECTIO.US.
There is an effort underway to raise $5000 to fund the update and expansion of the Rails API documentation. This should be a worthy cause if they find the...

Typo Themes via Capistrano

over 5 years ago by David Goodlad on Tampering with Technology.
Using the railsmachine gem with Capistrano to deploy Typo is a great way to maintain my blog’s software. However, I decided to play around with some...

Tip: Overriding link_to to accept a block

over 5 years ago by Brandon Keepers on opensoul.org.
You’d think I would get tired of saying this: Ruby is amazing! On numerous occasions in recent weeks, I’ve needed some complex logic or multiple...

Selectively handle undefined methods in Ruby

over 5 years ago by Jay Phillips on Aunt Nell!.

Acts As Most Popular Rails Plugin

over 5 years ago by Shane Vitarana on Shane's Brain Extension.
Make your models feel like they are in high school again. This plugin retrieves the most frequently occurring values for each column. It adds methods...

How to Use cURL to Test RESTful Rails

over 5 years ago by Duane Johnson on Going Up.
I’ve begun experimenting with the new Edge Rails code that includes built-in support for REST. (The code that was once in the simply_restful plugin...

The Caboose Rails Documentation Project

over 5 years ago by josh on has_many :through.
Those crazy kids in the #caboose channel decided to raise $5000 to fund (bounty or salary?) someone with professional tech writing skills to show some love...

Apache 2.2, mod_proxy_balancer, & Mongrel on Ubuntu 6.06

over 5 years ago by Jon Maddox on Jon's Thoughts On Everything.
Ok after playing with Ubuntu, Apache 2.2, mod_proxy_balancer, and Mongrel, I’ve decided that this is the deployment stack I want to use for at least...

Rails Engine: A short Introduction

over 5 years ago by Chris Dorner on chrisdo.org.
Yesterday I discovered a nice plugin, called Rails Engines, and at the same time it's also a skeleton for rails engine plugins. The main goal is to provide...

The RailsConf Europe HooHa

over 5 years ago by Luke on Luke Redpath - Home.
David posted an entry on the RubyOnRails weblog pushing people to go to RailsConf EU and a lot of people reacted negatively to it. The thing that most...