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Here’s a very interesting slideshow I just found. It proposes using XMPP as a quick and lightweight alternative to bulky feeds and HTML.
Beyond REST? Building data services with XMPP

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This new passenger is a joy to have around.  He is very friendly and truly helpful.  This passenger I’m referring to is Passenger a.k.a. mod_rails for Apache web servers.  Passenger is produced by Phusion, a computer science company that specializes in  IT products and services.
From their site:

“Phusion Passenger™ (a.k.a. mod_rails) is a open source product [...]

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This is a plugin that is design to assist in the usage of the dojo toolkit with your rails application. It is still very much in the works, so any recommendation are definitely welcome. It is designed to be used with Rails 2+ and Dojo 1.1.   The full dojo 1.1 library [...]

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Coming Soon! 
I am working on a plugin that will assist in integrating the Dojo Toolkit libraries into your rails applications.  I have made good progress so far.  It has a variety of helpers to make short work to inlude the dojo core library and specify the requires, create dijits, use dojo functions and experiment with dojox.  Currently [...]

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As of Rails 2.0 the in_place_editor methods have been moved into a plugin. You can download this plugin here. For some items I needed to have a dropdown selection instead of a text field. To add this functionality, I added two methods to the plugin.
Here is the full contents of ‘in_place_macros_helper.rb’ http://pastie.caboo.se/169443
Replace the contents of [...]

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I was recently contacted by a previous client about modifying his site. He wanted a list of changes and additional features added. When I began preparing to make the changes, I was thrown into a mildly nightmarish flashback. His site was one of the first that I had ever worked [...]

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These are the 10 11 plugins that I have found to be the biggest timesavers. Providing me with functions and features that I just won’t go without.

stickies - Stickies is a plugin for Ruby on Rails that provides some easy to use yet powerful features for displaying status messages. It’s a replacement for [...]

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I have been using primarily two frameworks on my various projects. Usually I use the Dojo Toolkit, but recently I’ve become fond of ExtJS. They are both great setups with loads of functionality. I’m trying to determine which types of sites each fits best in. From my experience, ExtJS seems [...]

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If you using the Google Analytics plugin, but want to use the new tracking code. Then replace the self.included(base) definition in “google_analytics/lib/google_analytics.rb” with this one:
def self.included(base) #nodoc#

base.class_eval do

@@no_analytics_key_message = ‘Add your analytics key with code like GoogleAnalyticsHelper.analytics_key = “ZZ-NNNNNN-N”‘

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This was a very helpful rails plugin for my current project. It allows you to log whenever a object is added, modified or removed and who the action was performed by. I did make a couple changes to the plugin to be more in line with Rails 2. First I modified the [...]

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