Rails
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AJAX
Various patterns for use with sortable_element
Authentication
Updated authentication gem and usage instructions
Alternative to the login gem (more highly recommended on the Rails wiki)
Authentication using REST practices
Plugins - Restful Authentication - Agile Web Development
www.agilewebdevelopment.com/plugins/restful_authen... A generator for simple restful authentication---looks clean
Caching
Multi-part tutorial on page, action, and fragment caching
E-mail
ar_mailer allows you to queue e-mails to be sent at a later time.
Sending emails in the background with ActionMailer and BackgrounDRB
rails.co.za/articles/2006/10/30/sending-emails-in-... Tutorial on one way to use BackgrounDRB to send queued e-mails
Extending Rails
The Complete Guide to Rails Plugins: Part I | Ruby on Rails for Newbies
nubyonrails.com/articles/2006/05/04/the-complete-g... Part one of a tutorial series on creating your own plugin
The Complete Guide to Rails Plugins: Part II | Ruby on Rails for Newbies
nubyonrails.com/articles/2006/05/09/the-complete-g... Part II of the plugin creation series
Markaby
Markaby Source
Misc
Misc tips for using some of the lesser-known parts of Railshttp://www.rubyinside.com/19-rails-tricks-most-rails-coders-dont-know-131.html What's New in Edge Rails: Get Your RSS & Atom Feeds for Free
www.ryandaigle.com/articles/2006/09/14/whats-new-i... Overview of the features in current Egde Rails for generating atom and RSS feeds
Performance/Debugging
InfoQ - Tracking change and innovation in the enterprise software development community
www.infoq.com/articles/Rails-Performance List of common performance problems an Rails and how to avoid them Plugin for determining where queries in your logs are run
Plugin for debugging and understanding your routes (very handy for REST)
10 tips for optimizing a slow Rails app, but bad advice when it's already fast enough.
REST
What's New in Edge Rails: Simply RESTful Support - And How to Use It
www.ryandaigle.com/articles/2006/08/01/whats-new-i... Description of REST in Rails and how to deal with the routes
Generator for Resources
See the note under "Authentication" for more information about authenticating using REST practices
Spam
soaked and soaped : How To Protect A Rails Application Against Spam with Akismet
sas.sparklingstudios.com/articles/2006/10/01/how-t... Quick tutorial on adding Akismet support
Testing
Information on a plugin for testing views with hpricot, the lenient and convenient HTML parser
Part one of a series on behavior-driven testing with RSpec
Unicode
eigenclass - Trivial AJAX, encoding gotchas: comment previews
eigenclass.org/hiki.rb?comment+preview+encodings Comment previews: getting Unicode through Javascript and Ruby then back
Forms
SciWerks.com » Another blindingly obvious way to disable a submit button when pressed
www.sciwerks.com/blog/2006/10/08/another-blindingl... Disabling a submit button after it's clicked
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