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I participated in August Rails Hackfest which was a great experience. You can see the missing August 2007 from the Post Archives. I didn’t post anything last month as I was busy in submitting rails patches. I submitted a lot of patches out of which I got one patch committed  [ Read More ]

Hey Everyone, Vinsol is proudly taking charge to spread Rubyism in delhi and to grow the Ruby & Rails communities here in New Delhi, India. We are organizing delhi.rb meetups around once every month, the meetup is all about ruby and rails as well. The meetup was on 19th July  [ Read More ]

While installing RMagick on Linux, if you are getting errors like this “GraphicsMagick-config… no configure: error: Can’t install RMagick. Can’t find Magick-config or GraphicsMagick-config program. …”, below is the solution for this error. RMagick requires ImageMagick and which further requires loads of dependencies already available to get installed and work  [ Read More ]

Hi all, I found an answer(a tweak) to the question which was pinging my mind while working on my current project that How to validate one or more specific attribute of the model(field of the table i mean)?, as the requirement was to save a record after validating the model’s  [ Read More ]

Simple Captcha 1.0 released If you are using an older revision of SimpleCaptcha then it is strongly recommended that update it to the Simple Captcha version 1.0, coz there were certain bugs in the previous release viz. update_attribute, which has been fixed in this release. Bugs Fixed and Features update_attribute  [ Read More ]

I have provided the source code of the ajax based drag drop tree in rubyonrails in one of my previous posts. I found some of the people are getting problems to incorporate the code into their running applications so i am providing a sample rails application in which all the  [ Read More ]

A Quick Review on ENCRYPTIONS We all are very familiar with the ruby encryptions we usually implement SHA1 or MD5 in our rails applications. In my ongoing project i have been through encryptions in little bit more depth. MD5 was the most widely used hash algorithm, it converts a string  [ Read More ]

Well, its a natural feel to get amazed out of every other delighted feature provided by RubyonRails and so appreciating it before actually talking about the feature in every second post. This line is for those people who have published that the worst thing about rails is that every rails  [ Read More ]

Ruby on Rails is creating the storms in the web development all over the world. RoR is even capable to challenge Big Caps like Microsoft’s Asp.NET and so everything else in the specific area. World is continuously changing… The current WEB not solely depends on the old,encoded,paid,stressful technologies but the  [ Read More ]