Mailer HOWTO for Rails
Since sending mails via Rails is – at first sight – a bit tricky, I want to provide you with a quick heads up on how to do that.
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SVN: A quick HOWTO
If you do a lot of coding, you will experience the need for versioning your code. I have used CVS before switching to SVN and I can only recommend SVN to you – once you get the hang of it, you will love it. I even use SVN for keeping track of complex HTML templates.
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Quick and Dirty Guide to your 1st Rails app – Part #1
For all of you who want to take a peek at creating a Ruby on Rails application and need a quick start, this post is designed to aid you in getting to know RoR. I will post follow-ups to this to make this first application better and better and to incorporate more complex functionality in [...]
ActiveScaffold: How to get started
When I took a first peek at ActiveScaffold, I had no idea into how much trouble I’d run before creating beautiful AND working backends for my applications. I had LOTS of research to do to get around some rather nasty issues and I want to provide you with some info on how to get stuff [...]
Symfony: How to get data from session into form
I tried to put the user id from the session into a hidden form field and – guess what? I tried for friggin’ 30 minutes to figure out how.
In standard PHP, you would have put <?php echo $_SESSION['userId'] ?> and be set, but in Symfony, you have to put sfContext::getInstance()->getUser()->getAttribute(’…’); in your action to [...]
