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Here’s my current Rails 2.3 application template which uses the following features:
asset_packager
exception_notifier
paperclip
restful-authentication (generates user and session)
role-requirement (generates roles for user)
rspec
cucumber
active_merchant
sqlite3-ruby
will_paginate
haml
nifty_layout
Capistrano capify
database session store
I host my sites on an Ubuntu VPS. I use a combination of Rails, Apache2, Phusion Passenger, Git, and MySQL. I have a pretty useful Capistrano deploy.rb if you have a similar configuration. I’d love some feedback, as I promised to assist Jamis Buck in his Capistrano documentation efforts.
Style Sheets can be associated with an XML document by using a processing instruction whose target is xml-stylesheet. It looks something like this:
<?xml version=”1.0″ encoding=”ISO-8859-1″?>
<?xml-stylesheet type=”text/xsl” href=”something.xsl”?>
How do we get to_xml to render the XSL processing instruction? Put this in your controller:
Scott Chacon’s RailsConf 2008 Talk on Git:
RailsConf 2008 David Heinemeier Hansson’s Keynote Video
RailsConf 2008 David Heinemeier Hansson Keynote from daniel wanja on Vimeo.
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