Your Cash Back allows shoppers with a place where they can browse the best deals, discounts and free offers available online, read consumer reviews & ratings, and even suggest merchants and retailers that they would like to get cashback from.

So be sure to check it out Your Cash Back.

Its been a long time coming and a huge effort but we are proud of what has been achieved. Sentia has been working with the Kazaa team to develop this new service which offers legal music streaming and downloading.

So be sure to check it out Kazaa.com

If anyone else knows of some other ones please let me know

== General Practices ==
Dev on a Mac
Read up on TDD (Test Driven Development)
Use Growl for your Autotest notifications
TextMate – The only Editor you need
GitHub – Great space to see open source code and gems and plugins
http://gemcutter.org/

== Rails Setup ==

http://hivelogic.com/ – Has some great tutorials on getting your environment setup on a mac.

== Tutorials ==
http://rubyonrails.org
Rails Casts – Ryan Bates screen casts about all things rails related
PeepCode – Great screen casts about all things rails related

== Blogs ==

Sentia Blog
http://thoughtbot.com
http://weblog.jamisbuck.org
http://blog.jayfields.com
http://errtheblog.com

== Books ==
http://pragmaticstudio.com – Great source of books about rails and other technologies with a focus on the right practices.

Finally the only real way to learn is to try things out. Follow other developers blogs and use all the resources you can such as Google groups etc.
Don’t be scared to get it wrong its the only way to learn.

Sentia has been working around the clock with the Altnet team on this and be sure to keep an eye out at Altnet.com for more improvements as time goes on.

So firstly you need to add the following to your UserSession model. What this does is overwrite the default login method with the one we are defining below called “find_by_username_or_mobile”.

class UserSession < Authlogic::Session::Base
  find_by_login_method :find_by_username_or_mobile
end

Then in your user model its as simply as creating the class method for login. Now of course the password is still apart of the login process but we only wanted to allow users to either login via their login or mobile so no need to change the password methods.

class User < ActiveRecord::Base
  def self.find_by_username_or_mobile(login)
    find_by_login(login) || find_by_mobile(login)
  end
end

So give it a try and let us know how you go hope this helps

# 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!"

You can download it here

 sudo gem install rails

Check out the release notes here

validates_acceptance_of :terms_of_service

Then in your view add the following to your view and you will get a checkbox on the page that users will be required to check.

<%= check_box :user, :terms_of_service %>

This will then add this validation rule to your models validation rules and when you try to submit the form without checking the checkbox you get a nice little validation message letting you know hey you need to accept this.

Of course you can have your own validation message displayed like so

validates_acceptance_of   :terms_of_service, :message => ' and the privacy policy must be accepted'