Archive | March, 2009

Upload files using Paperclip on Ruby on Rails

Paperclip is an awesome plugin to handle file uploads in Ruby on Rails. I’ve been using in a couple of projects lately and I thought I’d talk a bit about it. First of all, you need to install the plugin on your project by doing: script/plugin install git://github.com/thoughtbot/paperclip.git from your project main directory. After this, [...]

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Playing this weekend – Alone in the Dark

So what game are you playing this weekend? This week I chose to talk about Alone in the Dark for Xbox 360, it was released a few months ago and you can problably find it in the bargain bin of your local games store but is it any good? Cutting the story short, the game [...]

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BaseApp Orange updated with basic pages and i18n support

Just a quick post to illustrate the changes I did to BaseApp Orange and how you can help shape it’s way. BaseApp Orange is my attempt to create a base for future Rails projects which end up having similar constraints and features. This week I posted the code on github and I did some changes [...]

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BaseApp Orange

BaseApp Orange é um fork da aplicação BaseApp na tentativa de o tornar mais adequado à maioria dos nossos projectos futuros. Ou seja, em vez de duplicar o mesmo trabalho, porque não criar uma base de trabalho com o essencial para futuros projectos? Para isso, procurei melhorar o BaseApp com uma área de administração para [...]

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