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22 March 2010 ~ 0 Comments

Implementing RPX with clearance in Ruby on rails in 5 minutes

When it comes to user engagement, having your users being able to create an account or login with one click is a really “nice to have” feature.
This is where RPX appears to be able a really neat solution.
It allows your users to signin/signup to your website, througth the RPX widget, using their preferred provider (Google/OpenId, [...]

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06 October 2009 ~ 0 Comments

5 Web Resources to master Git

Git is a free distributed revision control, or software source code management project with an emphasis on being fast. Git was initially designed and developed by Linus Torvalds for Linux kernel development.
Every Git working directory is a full-fledged repository with complete history and full revision tracking capabilities, not dependent on network access or a central [...]

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20 June 2009 ~ 0 Comments

Starting with backup-manager, or how to never loose data again!

Loosing data can be quite … annoying. (Photo on Flickr)
The last thing you want is to have a disaster on your server and being unable to recover your data.
I run all my projects and different blogs on one server, hosted by OVH. So I have multiple databases, gems, websites and configurations that I want to [...]

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18 May 2009 ~ 30 Comments

Beginners guide to Jquery + Ruby On Rails

First time I wanted to use Jquery with Ruby on Rails I had some difficulties understanding how it can works.
Sure, you can easily use Jrails, that’ll brings you RJS helpers with Jquery, but I quite like the unobstrusive way, so Jrails is not (for me) the best solutions.
Let’s code together
What do we want?
We are going [...]

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