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Ruby on Rails documentation & API

Posted on the May 25th, 2007 under programming,Ruby on Rails by

A few of my recently bookmarked sites for the Ruby on Rails API and documentation that help with development.

http://gotapi.com/ Slick interface, ( has a lot of other API’s and documentation)

http://www.railsapi.org/ Its ok, slower to search (lacks ajaxness)

http://edgedocs.planetargon.org/ – Edge documentation

http://www.noobkit.com/ “Ruby on Rails documentation… on Rails”

http://www.railsbrain.com/ – Clean easy site for Rails documentation / API info.

http://www.ruby-doc.org/core/ – Ruby core documentation

http://api.rubyonrails.org/ – Official RoR documentation / API

http://widgets.precisionis.com.au/ – OSX Widget for the Rails API

Any other suggestions, post a comment and I’ll add it to the list.

Rails Streamlined Framework

Posted on the May 21st, 2007 under programming,Rails Ecommerce Project,Ruby on Rails by

I was watching some of the screencasts as well as reading the PDF file of the tutorial they gave at rails conf of Streamlined.

I was quite impressed, and thought I would give it a shot to help speed up some of the minor admin interfaces. It definally worth a look at.

I also noticed with running rails edge you need to comment out a line in the following file in the streamlined plugin dir (streamlined/lib/streamlined/controller.rb)

Comment out (line 111):

SVN / redMine and some project updates

Posted on the May 21st, 2007 under programming,Rails Ecommerce Project,Ruby on Rails by

I setup the project into svn and redMine everything seems to be working out well. redMine is a nice little application for project management (bug tracking, svn browser, wiki), its worth taking a look at and seems to be a viable alternative to trac.

After getting that setup, I went ahead and started working on the authentication system. Making some minor tweaks (fixed the redirect_to_url, which is not depreciated in edge rails), adding password