Dojo Helpers Plugin

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 [...]

Dojo plugin for rails is in the works.

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 [...]

Rails in place editing plugin w/ selection

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 [...]

Google Analytics Rails Plugin w/ new tracking code

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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Bookmarks for December 26th through February 9th

These are my links for December 26th through February 9th:

Who? | Fear of Fish -
12 freeware icons of Web 2 Social Bookmarks -
ZSFA — Rails Is A Ghetto (2007-12-31) -
Utu: here -
caboose -
Scripteka :: Prototype extensions library -
uvlayer -
Home // Current -
Techmeme -
MapReduce for Ruby: Ridiculously Easy Distributed Programming -
XFN: Introduction and Examples -
Jester -
Juixe [...]

acts_as_activity_logged

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 [...]