Here is the Akismet.rb class, written by David Czarnecki. I've seen several tutorials online using this class, however, the class isn't available at David's blog. So... I reposted it here and at the pastie link below http://pastie.org/1150693 ...

I've got some pages that are cached using their permalinks on the filesystem, such as http://example.com/about-us.html which will need to map to RAILS_ROOT/public/about-us.html ... The issue I have is that I use a namespace for the admin area and the cont...

After an hour of fruitless searching through the docs and forums, I finally found an answer to my simple question, of course buried in the depths of the shark infested, murky water that is the Moodle code base . How do I check if a user is a course creat...

apt-get install librmagick-ruby1.8 apt-get install libmagickwand-dev gem install rmagick The last command will spit out a bunch of "No definition" comments. There are no rdocs available and this is why.

To make child attributes accessible to your model through a nested forms (Rails 2.3) you'll need to add the "#{child_class}_attributes" to the attr_accessible method in your parent class. If you don't use attr_accessible in your parent model (you would do...