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A couple of days ago I launched Rails Kits (http://railskits.com/), a place to get ready-made Rails 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:

The directory of Rails plugins at http://www.agilewebdevelopment.com/ plugins/ now has support for adding comments to plugins, so stop by and leave a kind word about your favorite plugin. :) A feed for plugin comments is available at http:// feeds.feedburner.com/RubyOnRailsPluginComments, while the plugin feed itself is available at http://feeds.feedburner.com/RubyOnRailsPlugins. --

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

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

The Helpdesk Rails Kit <http://railskits.com/helpdesk/> 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:

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 have just put out an update to the SaaS Rails Kit, a sample Rails application that implements recurring billing. This update adds support for the Authorize.net payment gateway. With the Rails Kit and Authorize.net CIM, you get a complete and very flexible subscription billing system that you can use as a starting point for building your software-as-a-service Rails application, so you can skip

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

I have just released the first revision since the initial release of The Money Train, Building e-commerce sites using Ruby on Rails. It is available for purchase now at http://www.agilewebdevelopment.com/ book. Here''s a list of major changes since the initial release: - Added content to Gift Certificates chapter about legal and accounting details. - Added product options section.

Folks: For your cooking pleasure, I''m happy to announce that Chef Fowler has added eight new recipes to his book: * DRY Up Your Database Config * Adding Behavior to Your ActiveRecord Associations * Keep An Eye On Your Session Expiry * Make your URLs Meaningful (and pretty) * Syndicate Your Site With RSS * Handling Bounced Email * Dynamic Database Configuration * Quickly Inspect Your

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

Folks: The fifth beta of Rails Recipes, Chad Fowler''s book on writing real-world Rails, is now available. The book now has its full quota for 70 recipes. Here''s the complete list. Part I--User Interface Recipes In-Place Form Editing Making Your Own JavaScript Helper Live Preview Live Search Creating a Drag-and-Drop Sortable List (extract) Update

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...

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.

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/.

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."

Rails Machine is proud to announce the immediate availability of our full line of Rails deployment products and services, including VPS-based hosting accounts, dedicated servers, software and support offerings. Designed for professional Ruby on Rails programmers and teams, our offerings focus on making Rails application deployments easier, cheaper and more successful. Our current offerings

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

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