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Regular Expression Tools

A great website with lots of tools to support working with and learning of regular expressions.

06-2008 [Go there]

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Tags: webdev, regexp, rails

Active Record Backup Plugin for Ruby on Rails

This one needs svn on the server.

06-2008 [Go there]

Score: (Number of votes: 0)

Tags: svn, ruby, rails

Beast: Forum in Rails

An Open Source Ruby on Rails forum in under 500 lines of code. Non-complex forum-action ahead!

05-2008 [Go there]

Score: 4.0 (Number of votes: 1)

Tags: webdev, rails

How to change session-options in Rails

All you wanted to know about sessions in ruby on rails.

05-2008 [Go there]

Score: (Number of votes: 0)

Tags: rails, doc, webdev

Dynamic Sessions in Rails Plugin

05-2008 [Go there]

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Tags: rails, webdev

Adobe, Make Some Noise!

A campaign for enhancing Flash audio.

04-2008 [Go there]

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Tags: music, campaign, webdev

Rails: Many Submit-Buttons in one Form

A very helpful method to have many submit-buttons in one form, without the use of JavaScript... in Ruby on Rails.

03-2008 [Go there]

Score: (Number of votes: 0)

Tags: webdev, rails, html

Understanding Ruby Symbols

Read this article if you have every wondered about the details of Ruby-symbols.

03-2008 [Go there]

Score: 4.0 (Number of votes: 1)

Tags: webdev, rails, ruby

Noobkit

Great Ruby on Rails documentation.

03-2008 [Go there]

Score: (Number of votes: 0)

Tags: rails, doc, webdev

REXML - Reading XML with Ruby

"REXML is a conformant XML processor for the Ruby programming language. REXML passes 100% of the Oasis non-validating tests and includes full XPath support. It is reasonably fast, and is implemented in pure Ruby. Best of all, it has a clean, intuitive API. REXML is included in the standard library of Ruby."

02-2008 [Go there]

Score: (Number of votes: 0)

Tags: rails, helpers, webdev

Blue Cloth

Simple Markup-Language (Markdown) for Rails, perfect suitable for writing blogs and wikis.

01-2008 [Go there]

Score: 5.0 (Number of votes: 1)

Tags: rails, helpers, webdev

On the Development of Thoughts in the Process of Drawing

"This video runs with quadruple speed documenting the process of drawing. By fastforwarding the cognitive process involved in the creation of the finished work becomes visible. Simillar to language thoughts develop from the process of drawing- a theory decsribed by H.v. Kleist in his essay "über die allmähliche verfertigung der gedanken beim reden" (about the procedual formation of thoughts while talking), which served as a mayor inspiration for this project."

01-2008 [Go there]

Score: (Number of votes: 0)

Tags: designprocess, drawing, graphic, explained

Reserved words in Ruby on Rails

Comes in very handy. Can preserve hours of debugging.

01-2008 [Go there]

Score: 4.0 (Number of votes: 1)

Tags: rails, doc, webdev

Nexus manifesto

This is quite old (ok, it's 1993), but nevertheless just read it now.

12-2007 [Go there]

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Tags: explained, community, web20

Rails 2.0 is out

What is more to say? Read at the Rails-Blog

12-2007 [Go there]

Score: 5.0 (Number of votes: 1)

Tags: rails, webdev

FXRuby

"FXRuby is a Ruby extension module that provides an interface to the FOX GUI library."

12-2007 [Go there]

Score: (Number of votes: 0)

Tags: ruby, rails, ui

Commenting in Ruby

Do you know how to comment-out multiple lines in Ruby? You will be surprised, since this is not often needed.

11-2007 [Go there]

Score: 4.7 (Number of votes: 3)

Tags: rails, how-to, doc

AI Depot

Resource for Artificial Intelligence Development.

11-2007 [Go there]

Score: (Number of votes: 0)

Tags: ai, gamedev

Game Physics

Erin’s Weblog on Game Physics.

11-2007 [Go there]

Score: 3.0 (Number of votes: 1)

Tags: gamedev, explained, physics

Rails 4-State Ajax and CSS Star Rating

11-2007 [Go there]

Score: 4.0 (Number of votes: 4)

Tags: rails, how-to, ajax

MySQL Pattern Matching

Have you ever heard of the mySQL Parameter LIKE? Then you should have a read. Userful for searches.

11-2007 [Go there]

Score: 5.0 (Number of votes: 1)

Tags: rails, mySQL, search, how-to

Full Text Search in Ruby on Rails

11-2007 [Go there]

Score: 4.0 (Number of votes: 1)

Tags: rails, how-to, search

Merb

"Like Ruby on Rails, Merb is an MVC framework. Unlike Rails, Merb is ORM-agnostic, JavaScript library agnostic, and template language agnostic, preferring plugins that add in support for a particular feature rather than trying to produce a monolithic library with everything in the core."

11-2007 [Go there]

Score: (Number of votes: 0)

Tags: rails, framework, webdev

Last.fm vs. YouTube Mashup

Nice for some nifty minutes.

11-2007 [Go there]

Score: 2.0 (Number of votes: 1)

Tags: music, video, ai

Create a simple news publishing system in Rails 2.0

10-2007 [Go there]

Score: (Number of votes: 0)

Tags: rails

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