I’m not going to cover how to actually code an entire social network site in rails as all social network sites vary in their functionality (and it’ll take too long). I will cover plugins and other things you might find useful though.
Quick Start
If you don’t really want to do the coding but want to get [...]
I honestly don’t know the first thing about AIR. I’m an AIR-dunce. Adobe to the rescue! POW!
Adobe are offering the updated PDF version of Adobe AIR for JavaScript Developers (Pocketguide) under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 license (someones made that up).
You can download the free PDF here. Kudos to Adobe and the AIR team [...]
Edit: Added paperclip validations
Paperclip is an awesome rails plugin by Jon Yurek at Thoughtbot. It is one of many plugins currently available that cater for file uploading and thumbnailing (see: Attachment_fu, file_column, etc). Now a quick quote from Jon:
For some reason, file attachment is annoying. I donĂt know why, and I know a lot of [...]