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I''m interested in working on a message board application that uses ruby on rails. I''d like to see something end up similar to vBullieten, but with more of a 37signals type of less-is-more philosophy... mostly meaning less need for preferences and settings and configurations. I''ve checked rubyforge, and it looks like there are various forum apps uploaded there, some

The new pragmatic Rails Cookbook has a drag and drop sorting recipe. Does anyone know if this works with 1.0? I''ve followed the recipe (i think), and I can drag but when I drop everything goes back the way it was. It seems that the sort logic doesn''t get invoked. I put this code in my view: <%= sortable_element ''task-list'' , :url => {

I have the newest version of RedCloth installed (3.0.4). I want the following output: <h1>Header</h1> <p>Some text</p> This is what I tried but no luck: irb(main):002:0> require ''rubygems'' => true irb(main):004:0> require_gem ''RedCloth'' => true irb(main):006:0> RedCloth.new("h1. Header\r\nSome Text").to_html

I am using the the authorization recipe outlined in Rails Recipes.Is it possible for one role, say ''admin'', to have access to every action on every controller without explicitly having to create a Right for each? I know this will not work as is, and to force it to do so would violate MVC, but is there some other way to accomplish having something like this in a controller:

Yesterday I got the beta version of ROR recipes book and the recipes are great. For those of you still thinking about it, I highly recommend the book. The only thing I wish is that if there were some more recipes (greedy me), especially AJAX related and installing an application within your current application. For instance, it will be great to see how one can implement the typo blog

I was really excited today when a colleague gave me a lead on what I had hoped might become my first production Rails site. Almost as quickly, my joy began to fade upon speaking to the client. He wants a storefront that integrates with his existing POS database...a product called CamCommerce. A bit of research on this software (I''d not heard of it) suggests that the database backend that