Formtastic is a Rails FormBuilder DSL (with some other goodies) to make it far easier to create beautiful, semantically rich, syntactically awesome, readily stylable and wonderfully accessible HTML forms in your Rails applications.
(Link: Formtastic is a Rails FormBuilder DSL)
Formtastic is a Rails FormBuilder DSL
Sanitize: A whitelist-based Ruby HTML sanitizer
a whitelist-based HTML sanitizer written in Ruby. Given a list of acceptable elements and attributes, Sanitize will remove all unacceptable HTML from a string.
(Link: Sanitize: A whitelist-based Ruby HTML sanitizer)
Using the Campaign Monitor API with Rails – Blog – Campaign Monitor
A while back we pointed to a Ruby gem for hooking into the Campaign Monitor API. It was created by Jordan Brock.
(Link: Using the Campaign Monitor API with Rails – Blog – Campaign Monitor)
Campaign Monitor – API Documentation
Automatically sync your subscriber lists with your own customer management software. You can use your own in-house software to store customer or member details, and then outsource your email delivery to Campaign Monitor.
(Link: Campaign Monitor – API Documentation)
roo – read spreadsheets with ruby
This gem allows you to access the content of
* Open-office spreadsheets (.ods)
* Excel spreadsheets (.xls)
* Google (online) spreadsheets
* Excel’s new file format .xlsx
(Link: roo – read spreadsheets with ruby)
Creating multi-model forms is amazingly easy with AttributeFu.
Creating multi-model forms is amazingly easy with AttributeFu.
(Link: Creating multi-model forms is amazingly easy with AttributeFu.)
Sketches – Gem to Automatically reload your code when it changes
Description
Sketches allows you to create and edit Ruby code from the comfort of your editor, while having it safely reloaded in IRB whenever changes to the code are saved.
Features
* Spawn an editor of your choosing from IRB.
* Automatically reload your code when it changes.
* Use a custom editor command.
* Use a custom temp directory to store sketches in.
(Link: Sketches – Gem to Automatically reload your code when it changes)
Twitter Gem Reborn with Fewer Features and 100% More OAuth // RailsTips by John Nunemaker
So how does one use the OAuth stuff in the Twitter gem? First off, familiarize yourself with OAuth. Then, you can check out the example below pulled straight from the examples directory included in the gem (or over here on github).
(Link: Twitter Gem Reborn with Fewer Features and 100% More OAuth // RailsTips by John Nunemaker)


March 4, 2010
