Archive for the ‘resourceful plugins’ Category
Wednesday, September 3rd, 2008
So, yesterday morning (0830 CET, 0230 EST) was my tutorial on resourceful plugins at Railsconf Europe. Other than flying through the material and running short, it went pretty well. We ended up writing a fair chunk of code semi-collaboritively, so I've uploaded that to GitHub (I've also updated it a ...
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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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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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Saturday, January 5th, 2008
OK, so I've explained a bit about what Sandstone is, and how it integrates with an existing Rails application (and how that results in better customizability and upgradeability). What exactly does it offer, though?
Starting with the basics, Sandstone is built around pages. Pages can be nested (using acts_as_tree), and have ...
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