There are a few things that need to be taken care of before you can get this to work. The first thing (although, any of the following steps can be done in any order) to take care of involves your User model. You need to override the to_param method, so th...

I wrote a review for Joseph Thibault's Moodle News on extension development for Moodle. The book is quite good and I think an essential resource for anyone wanting to develop in Moodle. The book focuses on plugin development, but it will also give you an ...

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...

If you create a module in the lib/ directory of your Rails application you won't have access to those methods in your views. If you don't want to put those methods in a helper file, you need to add a method to your module that makes them available for you...

Parsing for links with the Prototype javascript library is easy. Here is the pattern for finding links /(http|https):\/\/[\w\-_]+(\.[\w\-_]+)+([\w\-\.,@?^ =%&:/~\+#]*[\w\-\@?^=%&/~\+#])?/ And to implement it you can loop through your con...