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We''ve just released our first in the RealApps series - a dead-simple CMS for Rails. It''s implemented as a plugin you can download, which then generates scaffolded code for administering your content. It''s designed to be a starter system for small sites, and of course you can build on it as you want. It''s also a good...

We''re working on a new series of applications called "RealApps" - simple plugins and components add functionality to Rails applications. We just posted an article describing the first one - a content management system. We also go into the business case behind the design we chose. Good stuff for programmers to know - especially if you are doing paid clien...

Hi, I have a couple of daemons that im trying to setup to be run for my app. The environment load is as follows.. ENV["RAILS_ENV"] ||= "development" require File.join(File.dirname(__FILE__), "/../../config/environment") And the error I get is #<LoadError: no such file to load -- active_support> #<Gem::Exception: can''t activate activesupport (=

So I''m interested in creating an application specific generator. The script/generate command tells me that all I have to do is put a generator in my rails_root/generators: > 2. Unzip to directory /Users/{username}/.rails/generators/login > to use the generator with all your Rails apps > or to {app_root}/generators/login > to use with this app only. So I

I just want to encrypt a string submitted through a form before saving it to the DB. And then decrypt it again when I need to retrieve and use it. Im trying to use the OpenSSL::Cipher library. I have the following module for encryption/decryption [code] require ''openssl'' module AESCrypt # Decrypts a block of data (encrypted_data) given an encryption key # and an