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Rails Plugin Annotate Models For Spec And Spec Fixtures


I have been using “Annotate Models” rails plugin written by Dave Thomas since I found it around one and half year ago. It really helps while writing fixtures. But if you use RSpec you might miss schema info at the top of your rspec fixture file as I do. So, today I modify the plugin […]

Acts_as_solr: Starting solr server on windows


I was using acts_as_searchable for one of my project, which uses Hyperestraier in background. Yesterday I decided to use acts_as_solr which uses solr(based on Lucene Java search library). I did all written in its Manual/Readme, but when I issued

rake solr:start

to start the solr server, it threw a heart breaking “Bad file descriptor” error, […]

Careful while using Exception Notifier Plugin


Exception Notifier Plugin can make you crazy as it made me yesterday.
Let me explain, I was using this plugin for one of my project and our server got a DOS attack. We were requested some URLs that doesn’t exists, like http://somedomain.com/game.rar etc… . I had registered my gmail account to get notifiers. And due […]

Plugin: Exception Notifier; Get detail information of exceptions occurred on the live server right on your inbox.


I don’t know whether you guys are aware of Exception Notifier plugin written by Jamis Buck or not. If you don’t then I would like to share this with you.
The Exception Notifier plugin provides a mailer object and a default set of templates for sending email notifications when errors occur in a Rails application. The […]

Ajax based drag drop and sortable tree for Rails


My friend sur wrote and shares his code for Ajax based drag drop sortable tree for rails. He is also trying to pluginize this, and soon it will be publicly available. Find more detail here.