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Archive for May, 2008

SWFUpload, Paperclip and Ruby on Rails

Thursday, May 15th, 2008

Edit: Added paperclip validations to photo model. Fixed a bug with the js (thanks to Kevin). Commented the js file and added all methods used by SWFUPload.
SWFUpload
SWFUpload is a small JavaScript/Flash library to get the best of both worlds. It features the great upload capabilities of Flash and the accessibility and ease of HTML/CSS.
SWFUpload is [...]

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More Usable Forms

Monday, May 12th, 2008

I just thought I’d post about a few things that you should be doing with your forms and also a few things I just like to do.
Use Labels
I still don’t understand why there are a load of people who don’t use labels within their forms. They’re more semantic that using strong tags like alot of [...]

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Using Capistrano with Passenger (mod_rails)

Saturday, May 10th, 2008

I love Phusion Passenger. It takes away most of the pain from deploying. Instead of having to mess around with lengthy apache config files, you can just upload. POW!
Phusion Passenger ó a.k.a. mod_rails ó makes deployment of applications built on the revolutionary Ruby on Rails web framework a breeze. It follows the usual Ruby on [...]

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