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In the process of building a Rails app for my day job, I found myself actually needing 2 independent forms of authentication primarily because I’ve 2 independent models that “users” authenticate as.
To explain a bit more, my application has 2 points of entry:

“Applicant” - enters the system and does things like applicants do (fill out [...]

The very first time I installed Rails on my PowerBook I used the instructions from nanorails.com, “Installing Rails on Mac OS X Tiger” which proved to be invaluable for getting me started with understanding Rails, and Darwin Ports (now, MacPorts) as a package manager. Well, I just got another MacBook Pro and had to install [...]

The last 2 days have been quite revolutional and revelational now that I’m using Basecamp for managing my projects.
<% :note => “to self” %> write about that in the future<% end %>
Well I wanted to use a post commit hook type functionality when checking in code. I did not however want to use an automatic [...]

So I inadvertently added a directory to ignore in subversion only to find out after I deployed (capistrano) that I should not have. So I wrestled around for about 20 minutes when it dawned on me: why not just check the svn  help on my box. Nonetheless, here’s what it is:
To add to subversion, use [...]

So if you’re like me you inevitably have to have an uber cool table in your application that doesn’t just sit there but allows you to run really nice interactive features like dynamically updating as someone types in a search parameter. If so, you need to check out this tutorial from http://dev.nozav.org! As I was [...]

I about pulled the leftovers of hair out of my head trying to figure this one out. The error log kept stating that the layout files I specified were not there but I could see that they in fact were. On my development and staging boxes (Mac) everything worked perfectly but I couldn’t figure out [...]

So it seems like everyone’s agreeing that Attachment_Fu (tutorial here) is the Acts_As_Authenticated new model Liquid Metal Terminator version 2 replacement for handling file uploads. The only problem is that for an application I’m developing I need to specify a specific location for each upload based on a particular primary key id rather than just [...]