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Archive for April, 2008

Building a Social Network Site in Rails

Friday, April 25th, 2008

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 [...]

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Adobe AIR Free PDF Download

Friday, April 18th, 2008

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 [...]

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Paperclip: Attaching Files in Rails

Thursday, April 17th, 2008

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 [...]

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