CommunityEngine: The Play-Doh for a Rich, Functional and Decoupled Social Extension to any Rails application

Posted on May 18, 2010 by Brent Lintner

Lately we have been working diligently on getting the Ripple Community website up and running. A daunting task in itself, not to mention alongside launching our flagship product The Ripple Emulator into Beta! Our ideal goal was to find a solid and easy way to integrate a solution that could help save a lot of [...]

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Sending email with Gmail and Rails, while supporting multiple Ruby versions

Posted on March 15, 2010 by Brent Lintner

Recently I have been working on a Rails app hosted on our deployment server (Heroku) and trying to get ActionMailer and Ruby working with Gmail’s SMTP service. The one catch is you need to use the TLS protocol and prior to Ruby 1.8.7 (Rails 2.3+) you need to write your own wrapper. Heroku (still using [...]

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