SearchLogic makes it easy to do search and ordering for your models. There is a nice and shiny new version (v2) .. only thing is that it has some bugs.

AuthLogic makes it easy to do authentication. See the AuthLogic RailsCast. Only thing that I miss is a list with known plugins.. so here are some I’ve found:

• AuthLogic oAuth - http://github.com/jrallison/authlogic_oauth/
• AuthLogic OpenID - http://github.com/binarylogic/authlogic_openid/
• AuthLogic LDAP - http://github.com/binarylogic/authlogic_ldap/

Let me know if you know Twitter, Google or any other.. or how they are supported using one of the above..

See:  http://github.com/joost/hyves_api

Voor iedereen met een iPhone is de applicatie te vinden op: http://www.me2i.nl/mug. Zie onderstaand filmpje en foto’s voor meer informatie

One example is the technology blog TechCrunch vs. the technology blog TheNextWeb. Look at the sites:

• both white’ish (TheNextWeb became white recently if I’m correct)
• both have a big banner in top with the featured posts
• both have nice bloggy square banners on the right
• they just have the same appearance..

Of course all blogs look the same.. but this are three typical things.. I can ramble on about both having all these news articles below each other, both having pagination on the bottom of the page, both being coded in html..

The point I’m trying to make is.. everything (digital) on the Internet gets copied: movies, music, blog articles, designs, javascript, open source code, blog design, program design, etc..etc.. The question is: what about it? Is it bad? Should we stop it? Does it make things better (like with open source code)? How far can we go? Do we steal a blog design or a complete program? Is turning an OSX app into a WebApp copy-ing or innovative?

Interesting stuff that is keeping people busy for a long time..and probably will..

So now you know it is not YOU that is to blame.. but Google

BTW, fix it using the stable js version (2.s instead of 2.x or whatever you’re using):


<script src="http://maps.google.com/maps?file=api&amp;v=2.s&amp;key=yourkey” type=”text/javascript”></script>


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Some layout around a
<%= yield %>
or around a
<%= @content_for_layout %>
and a secret character gets put in.. it's the BOM!

In our view (in Firefox) there was a new-line added and a div was moved and had a spacing. To remove it check here and use the script here!

I could not find a (Ruby) script that imports all data in a usable database structure however.. anybody got an idea?

[update]

I found IMDbPY that seems to do just that!

The rake task to install gems:

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sudo rake gems:install # Use sudo! See notes below

gives you an error like:

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sudo rake gems:install
(in /your/rails/dir)
rake aborted!
no such file to load -- gemname
 
(See full trace by running task with --trace)

This is because the Rails::Initializer block in your environment.rb will try to load all plugins.. and those plugins need gems.. and those are the gems you’ve put in the block.. hmmmm.. nasty.

However. There is a hack to still be able to use the rake gems:install command.. and I’m going to give it to you

In your environment.rb, inside the Rails::Initializer block, use the following code:

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  if $rails_gem_installer # If we're in a rake gems:install or similar task (this is set by Rails, the $-sign makes it a global variable)
    # We stop the initializer to load the files from the /config/initializers dir. This is to disable the usage of plugins or gems in that code.
    puts 'Disabling the application initializers (rails_gem_installer == true)'
    class Rails::Initializer
      def load_application_initializers; end
    end
 
    # Next, do *only* load the needed plugins that are not dependent on gems. For example exception_notification since that one is used in application.rb.
    puts 'Not loading all plugins (rails_gem_installer == true)'
    config.plugins = [:exception_notification]
  else
    # Otherwise, when we're just loading the environment.. load everything in the right order. So this is YOUR config.plugins = [something]!
    config.plugins = [:translatable_columns, :userstamp, :all]
  end

Now, using this code you will be able to install gems using the rails tasks even if though the gems are needed by plugins in your application. Whoeepie!

Further notes:
Have you ever used the rake gems:install task without sudo? Then your gems get installed in your homedir (~/.gem/ruby/1.8/). To uninstall them the regular command will not work (at least..with me).. you will have to use

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[edit]
You can also disable observers if you have them since they may load models depending on plugins depending on gems depending on the rake gems:install task

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  if not $rails_gem_installer
    config.active_record.observers = [:user_observer]
  end

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  # For my own notes:
  # You can use ENV['_'], __FILE__ or $0.
  # The latter gives you the most correct results (also when using sudo).
  # So you can also use something like:
  config.active_record.observers = [:user_observer] unless $0 =~ /bin\/rake$/

Here’s Flickr’s site today showing some revision conflict code

Tomorrow the ChallengerDay 2008 takes place in Hilversum.

We’re in the Top10 with YelloYello.. thanks everybody for voting!