Comments on: Building blocks for a CMS

By: Kevin Yank

Kevin Yank — Fri, 23 Jun 2006 01:49:48 +0000

The code highlighting plug-in we use may be found here:
http://www.dreamprojections.com/syntaxhighlighter/

As far as we are aware, there is no requirement for us to credit this library each time we use it.

By: timlucas

timlucas — Thu, 22 Jun 2006 21:53:09 +0000

Not sure about the credit for the code highlighter… I’ll find out more and report back.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 22 Jun 2006 14:08:31 +0000

Where is the credit for the code highliter?

By: hotgazpacho

hotgazpacho — Tue, 13 Jun 2006 19:13:45 +0000

That would be a “cache do” block…

By: hotgazpacho

hotgazpacho — Tue, 13 Jun 2006 19:13:01 +0000

Here’s another little tidbit from my application_helper.rb:


  # Generate an image tag for a magick_file column
  # expects method and size to be symbols
  def image_tag_for_magick_column(object, method, size)
    img = Magick::Image.read(object.send(method.to_s, size.to_s)).first
    image_tag(url_for_image_column(object, method, size), :size => "#{img.columns}x#{img.rows}" )
  end

Probably want to wrap this in a block, though, so you avoid reading the image every time just to get the pixel dimensions, unless someone knows of a better way…

By: timlucas

timlucas — Tue, 13 Jun 2006 13:38:15 +0000

Thanks Mislav, hadn’t noticed the scaffolding extensions plugin.

hotgazpacho: Ha, I’ve actually used file_column but have never touched the ImageMagick plugin I mentioned. Thanks for pulling me up on that. I much prefer the file_column approach of resizing on upload, rather than serving up assets from Rails (cached or not). I’ve had problems in the past with that approach, but it could have just been an early version of Rails on an unstable set up.

By: hotgazpacho

hotgazpacho — Tue, 13 Jun 2006 12:21:45 +0000

Instead of the ImageMagick plugin, how about the File_Column plugin? Much more flexible, and you can use it with acts_as_versioned to get the versioned assets you speak of.

By: Mislav

Mislav — Tue, 13 Jun 2006 10:57:57 +0000

I’ve been using “scaffolding extensions”… fairly easy to set up, configurable, but maybe broken now (I believe) because of errors on record deletion (it tires to show the record after it deletes it) and wrong (certainly not useful!) redirects on create/update.

By: Clenard

Clenard — Tue, 13 Jun 2006 00:22:48 +0000

Interesting, I was just about to go from my homepage (sitepoint)to Google to check for a RoR CMS… LOL

Thanks for the information Tim!