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- TankEngine plugin released for iPhone development
Pathfinder Development has released TankEngine out into the wild, giving iPhone developers a great new tool for app development.
TankEngine is a plugin for developing web applications optimized for the iPhone look and feel. It is based on earlier work using iUI, but has a brand-new JavaScript ending based on jQuery, and is a more flexible [...]
- Ruby on Rails Cheatsheets
Thanks to Dizzy, we now some excellent Ruby on Rails cheatsheets to keep by the desk for quick reference.
I use the Migrations cheatsheet and the Form Helpers cheatsheet quite a bit, maybe you will find them interesting as well.
- Ruby on Rails desktop background
I was looking for some cool new desktop backgrounds and couldn’t really find anything new out there that had to do with Ruby on Rails, so I designed one last night.
The Ruby logo is obviously from Ruby-Lang.org and the vectors are items that I created for other previous work.
Nothing too fancy, just something that I [...]
- Rails community finally gets much needed documentation upgrade
Without a doubt, one of the biggest complaints I hear about the Rails community is the lack of up-to-date documentation out there for the Rails 2.x projects and code.
It looks like that is finally changing….
It appears as though there has been quite a nice amount of work going on over at http://guides.rails.info. Some new and [...]
- Acts_as_slugable plugin and why you need it
If you are building a social Rails application, or any other Rails application that needs to have a URL slug, rather than the typical users/admin/232 type of URL scheme, then the acts_as_slugable plugin is going to be a perfect fit.
In my current Rails project, I want the users to be have their own “storefront” per [...]
- Generating a random number with Ruby
For my web app that I am currently building, I needed a way to generate a random item number for each new item that was posted to the site. Since I am building this app in Rails, I felt pretty sure that Ruby had a great and easy to generate a random number, and I [...]
- Is Rejaw a Twitter killer?
For the last few days now, I have been using a new micro-blogging service, called Rejaw. Rejaw follows the same format as Twitter, but does a few things both differently and better.
1. On Rejaw, your posts are known as “shouts” and they are unlimited text, where Twitter limits their “tweets” to 140 characters.
2. Rejaw makes [...]
