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White Listing Plugin for Rails

over 5 years ago by Rick Olson on Techno weenie.
I threw down the gauntlet, challenging anyone to post XSS hacks on Beast. The community accepted and brought in some challengers that defeated sanitize...

Official Mailing List Move

over 5 years ago by Rick Olson on Riding Rails.
Don’t worry if you see some mailing list subscriptions in your inbox, we’re simply transferring everything to Google Groups. This takes the incredible...

Unobtrusive Javascript Plugin

over 5 years ago by Rick Olson on Riding Rails.
Dan Webb and Luke Redpath have release the latest version of their Unobtrusive Javascript Plugin for Rails. It solves several of the main problems people...

New Mephisto Release

over 5 years ago by Rick Olson on Riding Rails.
The latest version of Mephisto, the blog that powers Riding Rails, has been released. Justin Palmer has the nitty gritty details at the Mephisto Blog...

Busy Railers Guide to BDD

over 5 years ago by Rick Olson on Techno weenie.
Update: I have a simply_bdd plugin now. Luke’s Developing a Rails model using BDD and RSpec, Part 1 is a very good read if you’re just getting...

why should we use microformats?

over 5 years ago by Rick Olson on Techno weenie.
John Allsopp has written a very insightful piece on the Digital Web Magazine – The Big Picture on Microformats. It goes into what sites are publishing...

Managing local subversion repositories

over 5 years ago by Rick Olson on Techno weenie.
Piston looks like it could be a nice alternative to svk. Piston is a utility that enables merge tracking of remote repositories. This is similar...

Got Docs?

over 5 years ago by Rick Olson on Techno weenie.
I’ve recently discovered gotAPI, and started using it for my own rails documention needs. What sets it apart from other tools, is the addition of...

Donate

over 5 years ago by Rick Olson on Techno weenie.
I’ve had a number of people ask how they might be able to say thanks for my contribution to the open source projects I’ve worked on (like Mephisto...

Reloading Killed My Attachments

over 5 years ago by Rick Olson on Techno weenie.
Update: Nicholas tried some fixes for this, but ultimately came to the conclusion that perhaps reloadable plugins weren’t such a hot idea. He’...