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Rails Plugins
by tkeller on July 12, 2007
Sliding Session Timeout
Allows your sessions to time out relative to the last page view
Read MoreSwfchart Generator
Swfchart generator provides an easy way to integrate maani.us's SWF/XML Chart library into your Rails App.
Read MoreHitTracker
HitTracker is a very simple plugin to give you quick and easy functionality to track access to your records using ActiveRecord.
Read MoreMigrateTestDB
MigrateTestDB plugin was created to allow migrations to be used to generate the test database in rake test commands.
Read MorePreloadFixtures
Ever wonder why it takes so gosh darn long to run your tests? Do you hate it when forgetting to load a valuable fixture breaks your test? In my experience, long test times are due to two reasons: fixture loading and fixture instantiation.
Read MoreUse_db
I recently wrote a rails plugin called "use_db", which allowed you to use a different database for some of your ActiveRecord models. I started by reading this article (which was borrowed from the rails wiki), and decided to make a plugin out of it.
Read MoreSortable_Column_Headers (SCH)
I wanted the ability to sort my tabular data using column header links. I wanted the links for each column to toggle between ASC and DESC depending on the current sort direction for that column. I also wanted the system to remember the sort order of a given table even after I navigated away from and back to the page that contained it. My current solution is the sortable_column_headers plugin (SCH).
Read MoreLiquidFilterExtensions
Inspired by the need to truncate text containing html tags without losing any closing tags, Ryan and I have created a plugin that we're hoping others will add to. The plugin is called LiquidFilterExtensions and hosts extensions to Liquid's StandardFilters module.
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