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While talking about my RailsConf presentation with Ben Wiseley, he suggested writing a book on the same topic... so I did! The Money Train is an e-book about building e-commerce sites using Ruby on Rails. Read my blog entry about it at http://www.bencurtis.com/archives/ 2006/06/rails-e-commerce-e-book/ or head to http:// www.agilewebdevelopment.com/book to dive right in. As always, a big thank you goes out to DHH, the rest of the core team, and all the plugin authors and others who contribute code and time to make Rails a wonderful development...

Hi, I am a newbie to ruby & rails. Can anybody give me some inputs as to how to download & use standard rails plugins. Any help regarding this will be greatly appreciated. -- If not you then who..... If not now then when...... ----------------------------------------------------- With Best Regards, Medha. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed...

All, I know there are 3 or 4 search plugins out there. I''m trying to find one that will allow me to search associated fields. My database content is pretty small, so efficiently is not so critical. On the other hand I have ton of :belongs_to type fields, so I need something that works well with the Rails models. Any recommendations? == Example of what I need to work Assume I have a

...code so you can get your projects done faster. The first Kit is the SaaS Rails Kit (http://railskits.com/ saas/), which will save you the pain of writing recurring billing and account management code for your subscription-based site. Check out my blog post on the release for more info: http://www.bencurtis.com/archives/2008/04/how-to-build-a-saas-rails-site-in-one-hour/ ---- Benjamin Curtis http://catchthebest.com/ - Team-powered recruiting http://www.bencurtis.com/ - Personal blog --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the G...

help me with this one, i need any tutorials regarding this credit card validator -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

Is there a writeup about how to structrure your rails applications so that you can share models, gems, libraries, helpers, and controllers between them. It would be especially helpful if the discussion involved how to structure your codebase in version control and how to manage deployement.

Just released a new version of the _Managed Fixtures_ plugin, previously known as _Export Fixtures_. The name change comes with some added functionality for managing the fixtures, primarily with two new import tasks for importing specific Models or all of them within the test/fixtures directory. Both new import tasks take the exported fixtures, and allow you to directly import one, or all of

Validates Unlike Plugin (v 0.1) ======================== Validates Unlike plugin validates that the value of the specified attribute doesn''t match against the regular expression provided Class Contact < ActiveRecord::Base validates_unlike :comment, :with =>/html|http|onclick|onmouseover/ , :message => "comment can''t include: href,http,onclick,onmouseover."

.../spec/models/user_spec.rb:62: script/spec:4: Here''s the user.rb http://pastie.caboo.se/87029 role.rb http://pastie.caboo.se/87030 user_spec.rb http://pastie.caboo.se/87032 The code is based off of RESTful authentication + Ben Curtis'' user roles in Rails Application: http://www.bencurtis.com/archives/2007/06/user-roles-in-rails-applications/ Thanks for your help! -- dp -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://rubyforge.org/pipermail/rspec-users/attachments/20070812/38430919/attachment.html

So here''s the deal. I don''t know the innards of rails well enough to do this quickly but you might. First person to write this and release it under MIT license or public domain, and tells me, gets a free pizza from your favorite local delivery place. You pick the toppings, I''ll call ''em and order it up for you. Yeah a pizza isn''t much but I''m

Hi everyone, I was trying to discover some new plugins, but the script breaks at a certain point: $ ./script/plugin discover Add http://delynnberry.com/svn/code/rails/plugins/? [Y/n] Add http://svn.recentrambles.com/plugins/? [Y/n] Add http://svn.hasmanythrough.com/public/plugins/? [Y/n] Add http://www.svn.recentrambles.com/plugins/? [Y/n] Add http://sean.treadway.info/svn/plugins/? [Y/n] Add

Nothing special, just my first plugin. it came out of a request I saw on the list from someone who wanted to be able to tell if a model''s attributes had changed prior to being saved. Well, this plugin does just that (at least I hope it does). http://rubyforge.org/projects/actsasmodified/ Please see the README for details. Constructive comments and criticisms are appreciated. Chris

I hope I''m not completely off-base here but is there a shop plugin for ruby/rails that means I don''t have to write the code for a shop from scratch? Can''t seem to find one... Thanks! Bex -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

The Rails Plugin Directory now has tag support: http:// www.bencurtis.com/archives/2006/05/rails-plugins-tagged/ -- Benjamin Curtis http://www.bencurtis.com/ http://www.tesly.com/ -- Collaborative test case management http://www.agilewebdevelopment.com/ -- Resources for the Rails community

...t; is now available to help you host your own support site, or even quickly add code for a support site to your existing Rails app. It integrates well with email to manage support requests, and it''s useful for hosting support articles for your app. More info can be found here: http://www.bencurtis.com/archives/2009/02/announcing-the-helpdesk-rails-kit/ -- Benjamin Curtis http://railskits.com/ - Ready-made Rails code http://catchthebest.com/ - Team-powered recruiting http://www.bencurtis.com/ - Personal blog --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message bec...

Anyone out there really familiar with acts_as_versionable ? I''ve recently got it working, and I think it''s working great. But what I want to do is a little different than what it does by default. Currently, each time I save the activerecord, the plugin increments the version number in the main table, and writes a copy to the table that stores old versions. What

Hi, I''m trying to handle money within an online store I''m building and I''m very stuck. I understand that using a float in the db is bad because of "rounding errors", and that storing the price as an integer is the best way forward. I know this has been brought up before on the list and I have search the archives but can''t find a good way forward.

The Rails Plugin Directory now has over 150 plugins and RDoc support too: http://www.bencurtis.com/archives/2006/05/150-rails-plugins/ -- Benjamin Curtis http://www.bencurtis.com/ http://www.tesly.com/ -- Collaborative test case management http://www.agilewebdevelopment.com/ -- Resources for the Rails community

Hi, Can someone point me to some info on how to access Rails models / ActiveRecord classes from a Ruby command line script? Say I have a plain text file that is put into some directory by an outside process, and I want to have a Ruby script run, via a cron job, that can open and parse that data file. It would then delete all records in some lookup table in my database and load it with the data

Hello, I am pleased to announce the availability of the plugin acts_as_classifier which allows using the ''classifier'' gem in a Rails application. This plugin can be downloaded from http://opensvn.csie.org/sksinghi/acts_as_classifiable/ This plugin is useful in scenarios where you want to distinguish between spam or non-spam comments, Or maybe you want to track the