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Geokit: Geocoding and Location Finding on Rails 2.2

It's not exactly new - we covered it on Ruby Inside back in early 2007 - but Geokit, a geocoding and location finder plugin for Rails, has recently been updated and is now Rails 2.2 compatible. Not only that, but it's…

Rails and Amazon: Libraries and Plugins for EC2, S3, SimpleDB, SQS, FPS and DevPay Integration

Unless you've been hiding somewhere, you're probably aware that Amazon has built up a comprehensive cloud computing infrastructure featuring a raft of pay-as-you-go services. What you may not know is just how easy it is to integrate most of these services…

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3 Plugins for Safer ActiveRecord Deletions

It's a fairly common requirement for Rails applications: allow the user to delete data but provide some sort of safety valve so that it can be restored. After all, users make mistakes, and one mistaken deletion can ruin your whole…

7 Tree Data Structure Plugins for Rails

A surprising number of applications seem to involve storing a tree of similar items out to some arbitrary depth: managers and employees, assemblies and parts, categories for organizing things. Rails doesn't have any native ability to handle a tree structure…

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Fully Tested SQL Server 2000 & 2005 Adapter for Rails 2.2

Do you need to use Microsoft's SQL Server as the database system for your Rails application (or, would you like to)? A group of developers (Ken Collins, Murray Steele, Shawn Balestracci, Joe Rafaniello, and Tom Ward) have developed the Rails SQL…

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3 Ways To Build Fake Demo Data For Your Rails App

You've finished the first sprint of your new Rails application and you're ready to show it to the client - or are you? Most user interfaces look better when they're actually filled with data. You could sit down and start…

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PaperClip: An Alternative Attachment / File Upload Plugin for Rails

In Goodbye attachment_fu, hello Paperclip, The Web Fellas present a walkthrough of Paperclip, a new(ish) Rails plugin that makes file (and particularly image) uploads easy. It's well worth a read, especially if you're just starting to develop a new app…

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authlogic: Another Take on Rails Authentication

There are certainly plenty of plugins available to handle authentication in Rails, with perhaps the most commonly-used being Restful Authentication. But there's always room for one more, and the latest I've run across is Ben Johnson's authlogic. It takes a…

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Tog: A New Way To Social Network-ify Your Rails Apps

Tog is a new extensible open source social networking platform that you can add to your Rails apps developed by Keras Software Development. It

Unlike the incumbent Community Engine, Tog is not a plugin - nor is it a stand alone application…

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Community Engine: Social Networking Features in a Plugin

Community Engine is a free, open source social networking plugin for Rails. All you need to do to add social and community features (e.g. authentication, profiles, blogs, photo management, bookmarks, commenting, forums, friendships) to an existing application is to install the plugin…

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