| Amethyst | | Amethyst is an open source, ruby on rails based blog application. It is customizable, user-friendly, and very simple to use. Whether your like to write technical articles, personal babblings, or any sort of notable thought, Amethyst can organize it for you!
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| Design, Develop and Deploy a Fully Featured Website with Ruby on | | Ruby on Rails is an open-source web application framework ideally suited to building business applications; accelerating and simplifying the creation of database-driven websites. Often shortened to Rails or RoR, it provides a stack of tools to rapidly build web applications based on the Model-View-Controller design pattern. What you will learn: * Installing, configuring, and testing both Ruby and RoR * Setting up the application and database * Managing users and roles for your website *
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| Ruby Essentials | | Ruby is a popular, flexible and intuitive object-oriented programming language. This popularity can, in no small part, be attributed to the introduction and wide adoption of the Ruby on Rails framework. It is difficult, however, to get the most out of Ruby on Rails without first learning something about programming in Ruby, and this is where Ruby Essentials comes in. Ruby Essentials is a free on-line book designed to provide a concise and easy to follow guide to learning Ruby.
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| Onyx Gallery | | Onyx is an open source Ruby on Rails based image gallery. It is designed to be clean and intuitive, flexible, customizable, and quick. Features Customizable Themes(more coming soon) Organize Images by Category/Tag Secure Admin area Upload your images from your computer or a direct URL Built-In RSS feed generator Cool Image Viewer & Slidehow Comments for each Image
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| Send a file with; send_file | | After uploading a file to your server/database you may want users to download it, and send_file works great for just that! Lets say you are allowing users to upload "gif" files to your /RAILS_ROOT/images/*usern ame*/*thegif.gif*. Now you want to allow them to download them or other users to download the pictures
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| Listing files in a directory with Rails | | In a recent application I am building I needed to pull file names and directory names from a local directory. I searched all over the net for this and found nothing. After reviewing a few of rails built in functions I came across Dir.glob(). If you feed this method a path to a directory it will then come back with an array of the names and directories listed
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| visual_effect with a delay | | One of the coolest things I ran across in RJS was the delay method. This delay method will do just that and delay a number of seconds. So lets say you need to highlight something that was just added to the page after the user submits it.
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| Mystic | | Mystic is an open source trouble ticket system written in ruby on rails(RoR). It is designed to be fast, flexible and customizable. It also provides a simple, easy to use interface that's quite intuitive.
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| Thistle | | Thistle is an open source tumblelog application that's easy to install and easy to configure. Thistle supports several post types: text, quotes, link, photo, video, event and code.
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| SEO on Rails | | and Tricks for improving your RoR app so it is search engine friendly.
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