A quick and dirty plugin for Rails 2.2 English sites that need to provide ActiveRecord translations to French. Highly limited and inflexible, but seems to serve my highly limited and inflexible needs at the moment: a single-user CMS content site managed...

I was thinking more about the Acts As Draftable plugin. I have been working on an Italian horror site that has various user levels (admin, vice-admin, contributor, users). Different rules apply when different types of users post content. A contributor...

Acts as Draftable is a Ruby on Rails plugin written by Rails core contributor Rick Olson (Techno Weenie) that facilitates the creation and modification of records as drafts before committing the changes to the database. It works its magic with the...

Rails Rumble 2008 weekend competition is just wrapping up - 200 teams from around the globe competing to see who could build the best, most useful, most unique, most beautiful website in 48 hours, in Ruby on Rails. I competed in the competition with...

Along with another programmer, Benjamin Jørgensen of Denmark/Montreal, I have signed up for Rails Rumble 08. Competing against up to 199 other teams, we’ll have two days to take a blank canvas private server into a fully functioning Rails server with...

Ruby on Rails Homepage Sorting

I have a magazine site with a typical homepage that features the latest items in each category. Something that has been subtly gnawing at my sanity for a long time is that items were showing up in the order I placed...

I have a magazine site with a fair number of models containing uploaded image columns. I started with a chunk of code in each model to handle the image save eg @album.save_image(@image). It was working fine but it didn’t feel right, since each model...

One important step in optimizing Rails performance is at the query level. This can be done in a number of steps.

1. Database Gluttony: No optimization

While you’re learning Rails or first developing an application it’s very convenient to set up your...

I created my first Rails plugin recently… It provides some easy ways to interact with the LastFM API.

There are generic methods for unauthorized RESTful GET queries, authorized RESTful GET queries, and RESTful POST query, as well as helper methods...

I have found that CakePHP is a great alternative when Ruby on Rails is not available, and in some regards I have found it surpasses Rails. One thing that is sorely lacking though is solid documentation. Both the Docs and API listing at cakephp.org...