24. 05.
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This is a fairly simple but handy plugin that lets you specify which database connection to use on a per-model basis. It is useful when you have multiple applications sharing the same data.
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EC2 on Rails is an Ubuntu Linux server image for Amazon’s EC2 hosting service that’s ready to run a standard Ruby on Rails application with little or no customization. It’s a Ruby on Rails virtual appliance.
20. 05.
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This plugin provides the ability to soft delete ActiveRecord models. When models are destroyed, they will be archived into a special deleted table. They can later be restored easily.
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Sashimi is a Rails plugins manager. It allows to install your favourite plugins in a local repository and add them to your Rails apps. The main goal of this gem is to allow the plugins offline installation.
19. 05.
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Another handy trick is making a package repository. This can be both a time- and bandwidth-saver if you need to install software on multiple machines in a network. It is also ideal for installing software on server machines, as you don’t have to install t
14. 05.
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Do you ever find yourself in need of a generic TCP proxy? Do you wish you could do it with netfilter? Do you want to proxy a connection to a given port on a given IP address to a completely different port on a totally different host or network?
10. 05.
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This document describes the options that a server administrator can configure to tune the performance of an Apache 2.x installation. Some of these configuration options enable the httpd to better take advantage of the capabilities of the hardware and OS,
9. 05.
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Your rails app has been humming along nicely for several months, then suddenly it hits you, wait, are we backing up our database / uploaded files yet?
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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).
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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.
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Using rmagick and mini_magick I can extract exif data with the following code
8. 05.
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This tutorial was built and tested using rails version 2.0.2. Features covered include activation, changing passwords, forgotten passwords, enable/disable users, roles and OpenID.
#Updated 2/21/08 to work with version 2+ of the ruby-openid gem and ope
7. 05.
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Redmine is a flexible project management web application. Written using Ruby on Rails framework, it is cross-platform and cross-database.
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Webistrano is a Web UI for managing Capistrano deployments. It lets you manage projects and their stages like test, production, and staging with different settings. Those stages can then be deployed with Capistrano through Webistrano.
4. 05.
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Ruckusing Migrator is a “Database Migrations” framework for PHP5.
The framework is modeled after the migrations package as party of Ruby on Rails’s ActiveRecord.
Marco Borromeo