To get a Gravatar you need to hash an email address with the MD5 algorithm. MD5 is a part of the Ruby standard library. Rails loads it by default, but otherwise you will have to require it yourself. This is a simple implementation. Gravatar su...

To clean up some repetitive html coding in views, pass a block of text to a helper function which will wrap it for you the same way, each and every time. For example, I have a 'help' link which will toggle the display of a block of text if a link is click...

Regular Expression for finding absolute URLs in a bunch of text... like a log file. /(http:(.*?)\s)/

I'm working on a project that requires users/designers be allowed to edit the layout of their site. I'm using Liquid, Ruby templating system developed by the folks at shopify.com. Doing a little searching I found this great post http://giantrobots.though...

Check it out http://sinatra.seanbehan.com/ This assumes Apache2 and the Phusion Passenger module have already been installed. If not you can get up to speed w/ this resource http://seanbehan.com/ruby-on-rails/new-ubuntu-slice-apache-mysql-php-ruby-on-rail...