Archive for January, 2008
Thursday, January 17th, 2008
I've been experimenting lately with git - a distributed version control system (DVCS) that's been gaining popularity over the last few months. Git's got a couple of fantastic features, but for me - coming from SVN - there were a few stumbling blocks. Despite the wealth of documentation and tutorials ...
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Tuesday, January 15th, 2008
Over the last several weeks, I've been talking about Sandstone. We do have other resourceful plugins in the works, though. Currently, the only one publicly available is Clinton Nixon's Bloget, which addresses the problem of adding blogging functionality to an existing application. Like Sandstone, Bloget is open-source, so feel free ...
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Friday, January 11th, 2008
So hopefully I've gotten you a little excited as to what Sandstone is and what it can offer. If you're interested, you can grab the current version (so alpha it doesn't even have a version number!) with
./script/plugin install http://svn.extendviget.com/lab/trunk/plugins/sandstone
On installing the plugin, the sandstone generator runs automatically. When that's finished, ...
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Thursday, January 10th, 2008
I just ran afoul of an old bad idea I had. My comic book site, My Pull List, allows you to browse upcoming releases by date. To keep the URLs intuitable, I had this in my routes.rb:
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i.with_options :action => 'index', :year => Date.today.year, :month => Date.today.month do |rel|
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Tuesday, January 8th, 2008
So you've already gotten a taste of what Sandstone currently provides. I'm much more excited, though, about the things that we're working on. Here's the general roadmap (warning: roadmap subject to change without notice):
Improve editor role management
Right now, users are either editors or managers. We recognize that some groups will ...
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