A Rails plugin is either an extension or a modification of the core framework.
Questions tagged [ruby-on-rails-plugins]
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Any good Rails example/framework for sorting, filtering, pagination with Ajax
Is there any open source (or example) code for Ruby on Rails which can filter, sort, and paginate a certain model? Also, it would be great if the results could come back via Ajax. A good example of what I'm looking for can be seen on this Trulia…

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Filter chain halted as [:login_required] rendered_or_redirected
Hopefully I can explain this well enough, but please let me know if more information is needed!
I'm building a form where a user can create an "incident". This incident has the following relationships:
belongs_to: customer (customer has_many…

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Supporting Mobile Devices in Ruby on Rails
What is the best way to develop a rails application that has special views for different mobile devices?
Basically I'm looking for something like this ASP.NET MVC solution:…

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switching a subdirectory managed by git to a submodule
We used to have a local hack of delayed_job in a Rails app, in vendor/plugins/delayed_job. It was installed as a one-time event and checked into git in the main app repo.
Now we decided to fork delayed_job on github and replace the subdirectory by…

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Rails 3 best way to create a comment system for posts
my first entry here.
I'm trying to add a comment system to our Posts model. However, I am not sure of the best way to go about it for a number of reasons. I'd like the comment system to be similar to that on Forrst.com but i'd rather have visitors…

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Which Ruby on Rails admin plugin do you use and why? What are the pros and cons of different admin gems?
We need a dead simple, but secure, admin plugin for Rails. We're on 2.x but are considering a port to 3.x.
Which admin plugin do you use, and why? What are the pros and cons of others? There are a few admin plugins available, and we would like to…

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Start or ensure that Delayed Job runs when an application/server restarts
We have to use delayed_job (or some other background-job processor) to run jobs in the background, but we're not allowed to change the boot scripts/boot-levels on the server. This means that the daemon is not guaranteed to remain available if the…

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Mahout Plugin for ruby on rails
I want to use Apache Mahout in my project on Ruby on Rails for implementing recommendations and collaborative filtering. In Particular my requirements are:
suggesting related tags.
suggesting related articles.
based on user's preferences prompt him…

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Rails - Paperclip validating attachment size when it shouldn't be?
I've got a rails model using Paperclip that looks like this:
has_attached_file :image, :styles => { :normal => ['857x392#', :png] },
:url => '/assets/pages/:id/:basename.:extension',
:path =>…

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Confused about how to install Rails plugins
I found an example here showing how to install a Rails plugin. Their example shows this:
./script/plugin install calendar_helper
This won't work for me because, confusingly, I don't have anything called plugin in my script directory. All I have is…

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Sharing a mongoid model between 2 applications - using engine vs. plugin
I want to share a model between 2 (maybe more in the future) of my rails apps. I couldn't find any clear suggestions, but I picked up some of the questions and answers I've read and came to a conclusion that it has to be done with a "gemmed" plugin…

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acts_as_list with has_and_belongs_to_many relationship
I've found an old plugin called acts_as_habtm_list - but it's for Rails 1.0.0.
Is this functionality built in acts_as_list now? I can't seem to find any information on it.
Basically, I have an artists_events table - no model. The relationship is…

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Rendering validation errors in Ruby on Rails
In a model say Task, I have following validation
validates_presence_of :subject, :project, :user, :status
How do I render error messages for these validations using some other controller.
Inside CustomController I am…

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Logout with http basic authentication and restful_authentication plugin
I have the restful_authentication plugin installed in a rails app, with a sessions_controller that has a destroy method like this:
def destroy
self.current_user.forget_me if logged_in?
cookies.delete :auth_token
reset_session
flash[:notice]…

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generators and migrations in plugins (rails 3)
I am simply trying to create a plugin migration generator without any parameters, like : $rails generate yaffle and this should copy the migration file (lib/generators/yaffle/template/create_yaffle.rb) to db/migrate/[timestamp]_create_yaffle.rb.…

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