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FriendlyID: A Slugging and Permalink Plugin for ActiveRecord

FriendlyID, a plugin by Normal Clarke, Adrian Mugnolo, and Emilio Tagua, describes itself as "the Swiss Army bulldozer of slugging and permalink plugins for ActiveRecord." In layman's terms, FriendlyID helps you get out of numerical ID hell and into an easily…

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Bullet: An Eager Loading Adviser Plugin

Bullet is a new Rails plugin (developed by Richard Huang) that helps you reduce the number of queries your Rails app makes, thus increasing its performance.

Essentially, Bullet "watches" the queries your Rails app makes through ActiveRecord and notifies you as to…

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Rails Magazine Issue 4 Now Available

Issue 4 of Olimpiu Metiu's Rails Magazine is now available in both a free PDF download format or in print format (via MagCloud) for $6.62. Contents include:

  • Background Processing with Delayed_Job
  • Generating PDF with ODF templates
  • Feel the Radiance with Radiant CMS
  • Oracle Tips and Tricks

And interviews…

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ABingo: An A/B Testing Plugin for Rails

ABingo is an "A/B testing" plugin to use on your Rails applications in order to test differences between two ways of showing the same information. It was developed by Patrick McKenzie, known mainly in the developer community as the creator of…

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BigOldRailsTemplate – A Whole Dummy App in a Rails Template

Mike Gunderloy (ex-Rails activist and Rails Inside writer) has hit the ball out of the template park with BigOldRailsTemplate. We've written about Rails 2.3's templating features before, but Mike has taken it way beyond merely installing a few plugins to actually…

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Rails 2.3.3 Released: Nothing Big, But Not To Be Sneezed At

David Heinemeier Hansson, creator of Rails, has just announced the release of Rails 2.3.3.

Rails 2.3.3 is primarily a bug fixing release, but a few new features have creeped in, including decoding backends for faster JSON and YAML libraries, the touch method…

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Fat Free CRM – Open Source CRM Platform (on Rails)

Fat Free CRM is an open source CRM (customer relationship management) system built upon Rails by Michael Dvorkin. Even if you don't need a CRM system, it's interesting as an example of a new, full, open source Rails project. Michael hopes…

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Mike Gunderloy's "Rails Rescue Handbook" – Very Handy!

The Rails Rescue Handbook is a new, 83 page PDF e-book by Mike Gunderloy that goes in-depth on how to "rescue" a Rails project that might have, well, gone off the rails. The book is aimed at people who've had to…

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Screencast: Easy Rails File Uploads using Ajax and jQuery

Adam McCrea of EdgeCase has put together a screencast demonstrating how to easily implement Ajax file uploads in your Rails application. It's about ten minutes long.

Job! Interkonect, a web app consultancy in Nottingham, UK, is looking for a part-time junior Rails developer -…
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Webbynode: A New Rails-Focused VPS Host Worth Checking Out

For a couple of months now, I've been getting regular e-mails from Carlos Taborda of new host Webbynode, asking me to check out their service, give it a try, watch their screencasts, and so on. You know, the usual promotional…

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