27 Nov 2008

Edge Rails: Now define you plugin’s routes in plugin’s config/routes.rb

plugin, plugins posted by Akhil Bansal

If you wrote/writing a rails plugin that need to have an entry in rails routing, you need not to ask your plugin users to make that entry in RAILS_ROOT/config/routes.rb manually any more. In the latest version of rails you can add your custum routes in your plugin config/routes.rb file. Rails will automatically load those routes.

25 Nov 2008

Presented faceted search using ultrasphinx

plugins, rails, rails plugins, solr posted by Akhil Bansal

The first ruby funday held on 22nd Nov 2008 in New Delhi, India. I presented on faceted search using ultrasphinx. I also gave a live demo there. Here are the slides:

Facet Searching using Ultrasphinx
View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: sphinx ultrasphinx)

You can ask me if you have any doubt.

17 Nov 2008

Getting ActiveScaffold to work with Rails 2.2 edge

plugins posted by manik

Due to the way template handling works in Rails 2.2, activeScaffold does not work on edge rails anymore.
Thanks to Dr.Gaffo there is fix for the problem in his fork of ActiveScaffold. Get the edge branch of his fork at http://github.com/gaffo/active_scaffold/tree/edge which is compatible with edge Rails.
Even after this you might face some problems like the path to Inflector. Just move the reference to ActiveSupport::Inflector and you should be good.

There is one issue that I noticed, date time field handling by ActiveScaffold is broken, thanks to refactoring in Rails core for handling these. I will post a fix for this as soon as possible and update this post too.

23 Oct 2008

Exceptional: Another rails application exception tracking application

applications, gem, plugins posted by Akhil Bansal

Some days ago I found HopToad, as a subtitute of exception notifier plugin. Now, today I found another rails exception tracking application named Exceptional. Hoptoad is free while exceptional is paid. :)

27 Jul 2007

Now steriods in Plugins…

plugins, rails posted by Ritu

Wow cool idea ;) … And the plugin i am talking bout seems promising too. The plugin of the day for me is acts_as_taggable_on_steroids. The writer says it enhances acts_as_taggable by DHH with features like Caching and tagcloud calcultions. Although i could not use it till now, but i m planning to check it out in my new project as soon as the first phase completes which seems to be very near :D