If you have upgraded your Rails to version 2.3 you might notice Safari renders a blank page when you access your localhost to view your app. Apparently it’s because the newer versions of Rails don’t work well with older versions of Mongrel. The fix is simple:
sudo gem update mongrel
I’ve made a cool drop down menu system using Prototype and Scriptaculous javascript libraries that utilizes some of the cool effects to create an animated menu system.
Anyway here is droplicious v.2.1 I won’t be putting up new versions here anymore. It will now be at github (see link below… right below)
Droplicious at github: http://github.com/darrenterhune/droplicious
Please comment any bugs or other questions on this post, or submit issues at github Thanks!
I recently just got the 24inch iMac and had to undergo the massive task of porting over everything from my MacBookPro. This included installing all the needed custom installs of Ruby, Rails, ImageMagick, RMagick, MySQL and configuring everything to work properly. I had the most trouble with ImageMagick, although it wasn’t that hard It still took me a bit to do. Now I hate mac ports, well I don’t hate but I don’t like how it install stuff everywhere. I like being able to control what’s being installed in a tidy fashion. So this is what I did to get ImageMagick working:
I’ve updated the previous patch of ElevatedFormBuilder to a Ruby on Rails plugin. You can now install it as a plugin from my github:
script/plugin install git://github.com/darrenterhune/elevated_form_builder.git
If anyone has any problems just add comments below.
Formtastic is far superior than this plugin so you should check that out instead.
Update: This patch can now be installed as a rails plugin from my github.
I recently committed a patch for the “Keeping Forms Dry and Flexible” recipe found in Advanced Rails Recipes Book. The original recipe was written by Mike Mangino of Elevated Rails. The first time I used the recipe found in the book, I was pretty impressed… almost. Being a usability and accessibility freak that I am I saw that if you passed in the custom :label option (This is to print a custom label instead of the default table column name, which would be in this case… “Title”):
<%= f.text_field :title, :label => "custom label here" %>
This would print:
<label for="controller_title">Custom label here</label><input id="controller_title" type="text" value="some value here" size="30" name="controller[title]" label="custom label here"/>
Wha? There’s a label param in the input element? That’s not allowed!. So I went off to Mike’s website and contacted him asking him if he had any updates to this recipe. He gladly created a new repository on github for me to pull from. I grabbed his new version of the error_handling_form_builder. Wow it’s different! Wow it’s got 2 form builders! One that lets you use templates like in the book and a more customizable one, that just uses content_tag methods to build a form. Both are pretty sweet and both use the same helper method. However when I tested, it still printed the label in the input. So I did a patch and Mike did a patch and now we have a dry, flexible, accessible, usable and badass form builder with 2 options for building forms! Or of course from Mike’s github.
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