A few Rails Plugins

I extracted a few pieces of code into Rails Plugins.

  • Cars: Helpers for populating dropdowns with automobile makes and models
  • Host Router: Allows creation of routes based on hostname or port
  • Multisite: Provides site-specific view paths
  • Remote Database: Helpers for working with databases on multiple hosts
  • Fraud Guardian: Helpers for generating fraud reports via FraudGuardian

Nothing spectacular, but maybe they’ll help someone else.

Posted By Josh on Jul 25, 2010 Comments Filed in Development, Ruby, Rails

API authentication in Sinatra with Clearance or Authlogic

I needed HTTP basic authentication for a Sinatra app running as a Rails Metal. I have two apps, one running Clearance and another running Authlogic.

Using the info from my previous post, I wrote a small Sinatra plugin that works with both Clearance and Authlogic.

Throw the file above in lib/sinatra_authentication.rb. Then, your metal, app/metals/api.rb would look something like this:

Authlogic doesn’t have an authenticate method, so I added this to app/models/user.rb:

Hope it helps someone else.

Posted By Josh on Jul 23, 2010 Comments Filed in Development, Ruby, Rails, Sinatra

gem install without sudo

It took me a while to find a clearly documented way to manage gems without having to use sudo. Just drop these lines into your ~/.zshrc or ~/.bashrc file.

Easy.

Posted By Josh on Mar 4, 2010 Comments Filed in Development, Ruby