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Model based XML in rails // 2 comments
On my blog I had to find a way to generate the content of the services page. This page includes date from different API’s like twitter, flickr, and so on... But the problem was that the load was to high, and the loading time was too long. Therefore I decided to get the data from an XML file. This XML file was generated by a batch rake task (t...
Stop motioning my sleep with my iSight // 2 comments
Since Filip (a friend of mine) posted his stop motion video online (www.pitslamp.be/posts/17), I became fascinated by the idea to make the same type of movies just for fun. And last night I had a brilliant idea to create a stop motion movie of my sleep. I wondered what my body was doing in a non-conscience state. And it became very clear to me t...
Integrating gravatars in your rails app
For this blog I wanted to integrate gravatars in my comment system. To do this I searched for a nice plug-in that generated the img tag for me. And I found a great one. One that is easy to install and use. To install the plug-in run the following commands from the command line. > cd ~/rails_directory/ > ./script/plugin install svn...
Integrating acts_as_taggable_on_steroids in your rails app // 6 comments
For this blog I needed to have some kind of plug-in to integrate tags and add them to my blog posts. For this I used the acts_as_taggable_on_steroids plug-in, which is great when you need an easy way to use tags and build your own tag cloud. This tutorial will show you how to use the tags and the cloud in your rails application. You can have the...
Active_record_base_without_table for rails 2.x // 1 comment
I use the active_record_base_without_table from http://agilewebdevelopment.com/plugins/activerecord_base_without_table to validate the fields of my contact form. The reason why is because all the validation rules are at the same place and I don't like to do manual checks in the controllers. So that is why I use a model that has data, but doesn't...