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Routing parameters with a dot

Last week I received an interesting bug report for an application I’m working on at the office. It has a controller with an index action that displays a list of items which can be filtered by tags. A tester reported that every time he chooses to filter the list by a tag that contains a dot, the site returns an error. First this seems strange since tags with a dot worked perfectly fine in tests.

But after digging deeper, I found a surprising reason for this strange error: To make URLs look nicer, I defined an extra route like this:

File column plugin not working with rails 2.2

Older version of file_coulmn plugin is not working in rails 2.2.
If you want to get working in rails 2.2 then you need to modify file_coulmn.rb file.
Update the line #619 in vendor/plugins/file_column/lib/file_column.rb from
Inflector.underscore(self.name).to_s,
to
ActiveSupport::Inflector.underscore(self.name).to_s,
Or you can download the latest plugin from the github.com: http://github.com/rust/file_column/
If you are looking to implement the old File column plugin you may visit
http://blog.dhavalparikh.co.in/2008/02/file-column-plugin/

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Hello World (Literally)

If Google Analytics is right, we’ve reached 68 countries in the last three days. Although I guess this doesn’t mean much at all on the internet, I think it still makes for a pretty map:

Welcome to Ruby on Rails Tutorial!

I'm just getting under way here at Rails Tutorial, but I have big plans for the future. Eventually Rails Tutorial will have a book (with source code),
a sample app (more source code), an issue tracker, and a feedback forum. For now, though, this announcements blog is the place to go for updates on the project's progress. So stick this blog in your feed reader, or just visit every once in a while, and get the inside scoop on what I and the Rails Tutorial supporters hope will become the best Rails tutorial out there.

Integrating fckeditor with mephisto

After configuring mephisto blogging application by following steps from previous post of Priyanka (Integrate Mephisto with Rails), you will notice that text formating options available with mephisto are not so user friendly and you will have tough time while formatting text, including inline images in your blogs.

Integrating fckeditor with mephisto

After configuring mephisto blogging application by following steps from previous post of Priyanka (Integrate Mephisto with Rails), you will notice that text formating options available with mephisto are not so user friendly and you will have tough time while formatting text, including inline images in your blogs.

GitHub Pages Overview

quirkey has written a great Guide to GitHub Pages, specifically on using the built-in Jekyll integration.

Check it out and start busting out some awesome documentation for your projects!

RailsBridge

I’m glad to help announce RailsBridge, a great idea put forth by Mike Gunderloy. Mike invited me (and many others) last week to join his concept for a positive approach inside the Rails community, and so far things look promising.

Open File Fast featured on Netbeans website

Open File Fast has been chosen as “featured” plugin on Netbeans website. Cool! I hope number of plugin users will increase and I will get some more feedback about it.

RubyNation Mini-Interview: Hal Fulton

RubyNation (June 11-13 in Reston, VA) is coming up pretty quickly, and I've started a series of mini-interviews with speakers and organizers there to help people get a feel for what RubyNation is going to be like.
If you're interested in getting more that this little taste, I'd recommend that you go register soon. I don't think the seats are going to last long.
My first interview is with Hal

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vault.ncaa.com : under the hood of a cool Flex project.

Thought Equity Motion and NCAA two days ago officially released the Ncaa Vault. A cool Flex app backed by an incredible video database with awesome metedata about each game…and released just in time for March Madness.

Here are a few of the announcements and online articles describing the services:

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