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 … Continue reading
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. … Continue reading
Another Ruby on Rails plugin that I’ve developed at the Los Angeles Times is cached_resource. In a nutshell cached_resource automagically caches ActiveResource response objects in a memcached instance. The plugin requires cache_fu for memcached configuration goodness. See also: Kickin’ ass … Continue reading
This is the first of hopefully many (a few?) Ruby on Rails plugins I’ve created as a developer for the Los Angeles Times. This one is called Craken. In a nutshell it manages and installs rake-centric cron jobs. Coupled with … Continue reading