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May
29

Getting JQuery and Prototype to place nice

Posted by Michael Cindric in development, javascript, jquery | No Comments »

If you want to use JQuery in your rails application but still want prototype working as well there is a simple way to make sure they play nice and work side by side. All you have to do after you include your JQuery includes code is have the following

  <script>
   var $j = jQuery.noConflict();
  </script>

Now all you have to do to use jquery is use “$j” instead of just “$” and your good to go. To use just the standard prototype library is still just “$”. Simple isn’t it

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May
13

Sentia rails application templates now on GitHub

Posted by Michael Cindric in development, open source, ruby on rails | No Comments »

We have just made a project on github to store our rails application templates that we talked about here. You can check it out here. Enjoy

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May
08

Application templates in Ruby on Rails

Posted by Michael Cindric in development, javascript, jquery, ruby on rails | 4 Comments »

Here is the latest application template we have put together. It removes all the usual items and adds the base gems that we use for all our applications. It also creates the files needed for deployment and runs “Capify” on the project, plus a few other things such as sass etc.

# Remove unnecessary Rails files
run 'rm README'
run 'rm public/index.html'
run 'rm public/favicon.ico'
run 'rm public/images/rails.png'
run 'rm -f public/javascripts/*'

# Download JQuery
run "curl -s -L http://jqueryjs.googlecode.com/files/jquery-1.3.1.min.js > public/javascripts/jquery.js"
run "curl -s -L http://jqueryjs.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/plugins/form/jquery.form.js > public/javascripts/jquery.form.js"

#Configure required gems
gem "haml", :version => "2.0.4"
gem 'thoughtbot-shoulda', :lib => 'shoulda', :source => 'http://gems.github.com'
gem "thoughtbot-factory_girl", :lib => "factory_girl", :source => "http://gems.github.com"

#Create Sass directory
run 'mkdir public/stylesheets/sass'

#Capify and create production environment.rb
run 'mkdir config/deploy'
run 'touch config/deploy/production.rb'

#Add UAT environment and settings
file 'config/environments/uat.rb', <<-CODE
# Settings specified here will take precedence over those in config/environment.rb

# Code is not reloaded between requests. Server needs to be restarted.
config.cache_classes = true

# Log error messages when you accidentally call methods on nil.
config.whiny_nils = true

# Show full error reports and disable caching
config.action_controller.consider_all_requests_local = false
config.action_controller.perform_caching             = true
config.action_view.cache_template_loading            = true

# Don't care if the mailer can't send
config.action_mailer.raise_delivery_errors = false
CODE

#Create gitignore file and setup base ignores
run "touch tmp/.gitignore log/.gitignore vendor/.gitignore"
file '.gitignore', <<-FILE
.DS_Store
log/*.log
tmp/**/*
db/*.sqlite3
public/stylesheets/*.css
FILE

# Set up git repository
git :init
git :add => '.'
git :commit => "-a -m 'Initial commit'"

# Success!
puts "SUCCESS!"

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