CSS Priming For Fun Part 2: CSSPrimer 0.1

A while back I did a small post on parsing HTML/XML files and extracting the ids and classes into a generated CSS file. I finally got around to refactoring and packaging it into a ruby gem. This can help you rapidly prototype your markup without having to write the CSS at the same time. Use [...]

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

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 [...]

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

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 [...]

Proxying HTTP Requests in Ruby

So building upon my other jaunts into Ruby I decided to post some code to make http requests to external urls. It could use come polish and there there is most definitely better mechanisms out there (probably a gem or two… or three) but tis fun to write well… code. First, here is an example [...]

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