September 13, 2008

Quick Guide for Passenger on Ubuntu Hardy

This is a short guide for installing Phusion Passenger on Ubuntu Hardy. This includes the installation of Ruby 1.8.6, Apache 2.2.8, MySQL 5.0.51a, Git 1.5.4 and Rails 2.1.1.

May 10, 2007

Google-like Search Results Helper

Representing your search results in a user-friendly way is a common task among web developers. Google’s approach is dead simple but really effective. The matching text is highlighted and shown with its context. This can be implemented in less than 20 lines of code which you can include into you helper:

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 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.

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