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Building a plugin (form_for and overriding methods continued)

by Mike ManginoApr.28.2008

In my last post, we looked at why Rails doesn't use getter methods in form_for. We also came up with a relatively ugly fix. In this post, we'll clean that code up and turn it into a plugin.

form_for and overriding methods

by Mike ManginoApr.24.2008

From time to time, we override ActiveRecord attribute methods to add some additional behavior. Yesterday, I was working on some code to require a user to approve a new email address before the change was made and ran into some problems using my new methods in forms. I'll show you how to fix this inside

Enabling MemCached sessions

by Mike ManginoApr.23.2008

Rails has been able to store session data in MemCached since version 2.0 was released. I've been able to make it work locally, but never in production. Until now that is. I'll show you the really simple trick to make it work.

Block handling view helpers

by Mike ManginoApr.21.2008

Over the past few years, my code has become much more DRY. Until recently though, I've found my HTML difficult to refactor. Inside, we'll take a look at how to use view helpers to DRY up complex HTML.