April 2007

April 8, 2007

Building a del.ico.us and flickr sidebar in 5 minutes

You need a del.icio.us sidebar which shows recent bookmarks or one of these nice flickr badges? This is really is easy as the Typo Weblog Engine already includes an flickr and del.icio.us aggregator.

April 4, 2007

Fast Auto-completion with Rails, Scriptaculous and JSON

Inspired by the excellent Rails Recipes book , I created an improved Auto-completion helper, which uses JSON and AJAX instead of a script tag for loading the completions. What we want to achieve is a search field, which pops up immediately, showing us a list of possible completions for our search word. Look at Google Suggest to get an idea.

April 10, 2007

Pretty RESTful URLs in Rails

Since Release 1.2 Rails knows to generate RESTful routes. Each resource is identified by an URI, which looks like /users/123 . It would be nice to have more readable URLs, which include the name of the user: /users/matthias-georgi. This is a short tutorial on making your urls pretty while retaining the REST approach.

April 18, 2007

DRY Up Your Url Helpers

This tutorial shows you how to simplify url generation in combination with RESTful resources by extending the url_for helper. This approach will also work with nested routes and other helpers like form_tag and link_to.

April 2, 2007

Rendering markaby in your helpers

Generating markup in your rails helpers is a general practice in rails and is used throughout all rails helpers. Normally you use content_tag to generate markup. But often you will encounter situations, where nested tags force you to write ugly helper code like the following helper method from the rails library:

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