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November 2008

Javascript Love

I’ve been a busy bee releasing stuff into the wild lately. Most of them have been Ruby on Rails plugins but I’ve also been doing some Javascript work. Here’s two tidbits that I developed at the Los Angeles Times.

Inplace_preview

Inplace_preview is the first. It monkeypatches Scriptaculous‘ InPlaceEditor to give it a preview mode. It also includes an ability to do an ajax call for rendering the preview. It comes in handy when using an InPlaceEditor for editing HTML but with the ajax rendering anything would be possible.

Here’s an example (if you save you’ll get a big-ol error since we don’t actually save here):

Click Here to Edit…

Gallery_scroller

Gallery_scroller is small Javascript library for creating a scrolling gallery that we’re using on more projects then I expected. It requires Prototype and Scriptaculous effects.js libraries.

Here’s an example:

The documentation on both of these goes into detail on how they work, so check out their github sites!

2008 11 13

Coding
Los Angeles Times

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Couple of Railsy Tidbits

I made a post on the Gem Install That blog detailing the simple_admin plugin which adds a simple authentication scheme to your Ruby on Rails application.  It stores usernames and passwords in a YAML file to make it extra easy.

Reid also posted on Gem Install That about another plugin we worked on, Subselector, which extends ActiveRecord to give it subselection capibilities.

2008 11 10

Coding
Los Angeles Times
Plugins

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