Browser CMS Basic Guide for Users

1. What to Expect

This guide covers how to use BrowserCMS to build and manage websites. After reading it, you should understand how to:

Create new pages
Organize your site navigation via the sitemap.
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Solution to DoS vulnerability in Ruby

A denial of service (DoS) vulnerability was found on the BigDecimal standard library of Ruby. Conversion from BigDecimal objects into Float numbers had a problem which enables attackers to effectively cause segmentation faults.

ActiveRecord relies on this method, so most Rails applications are affected by this. Though this is not a Rails-specific issue.

The Rails Conference 2009

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Plaxo Address Book Access Widget or Contact Importer

Plaxo (Address Book Access Widget) is an online address book and social networking service.The Plaxo is a simple-to-implement code of JavaScript which you can easily embed on any web page.

The Widget allows visitors to simply import contacts from multiple address books like Gmail, Yahoo, American Online, Outlook Express , Plaxo , etc...

Integrating fckeditor on mephisto

After configuring mephisto blogging application from previous post from Priyanka (http://blog.railshouse.com/2009/2/26/Integrate-Mephisto-with-Rails), you will notice that text formating options available with mephisto are not so user friendly and you will have tough time while formatting text, including images in your blogs. And you will require a wysiwyg editor for formatting text of your blogs w ..

Gujarat Cricket-gully cricket goes global

Gujarat Cricket is the first initiative in the field of cricket by RailsHouse which is a part of GLOSCON. It's a web-property, provides platform to those who wants to play cricket for their interest.

Cricket is One of the most popular sports in india. Its a platform where one can join the club and play cricket professionally. Cricket which was played ..

Top Open Source Ruby On Rails Projects

“Ruby on Rails, often shortened to Rails or RoR, is an open source web application framework for the Ruby programming language. It is intended to be used with an Agile development methodology which is used by web developers for rapid development…” Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruby_on_Rails) Ruby on Rails has already created a buzz in the web development and challenged the capa ..

Basic Ruby on Rails Cardinality and Associations

Active Record associations can be used to describe one-to-one, one-to-many and many-to-many relationships between models. Each model uses an association to describe its role in the relation. The belongs_to association is always used in the model that has the foreign key. (1) One-to-one Use has_one in the base and belongs_to in the associated model. In migration create_table 'employees ..

Re-installing all gems automatically

Today while working on rails application I figured out that some of the gems are not configured/installed properly and there older versions are also installed. So I decided to reinstall all installed gems. But I wondered there is no way to automatically reinstall all the gems. What I have to do is first uninstall all the gems one by one then reinstall gems manually. This manual process was t ..

Rails Vs Merb

Rails and Merb are MVC web application frameworks written in and for Ruby. Both the framework is similar in terms of their directory structures and concepts. Now, We have to compare Rails and Merb. and findout which one is best? 1. Rails is not Modular based. As Merb is Modular. 2. Rails is focused on rapid development for the web programmer. Merb is focused on speed and extensibili ..

Integrate Mephisto with Rails

Mephisto is a blogging system available in ruby on rails. it's provides easy way to integrate with your rails application. To implement mephisto you have two different ways to download Mephisto: one is download the latest release as a tar.gz file, and other is to get code from Subversion repository. For Quick Installation, You must follow some of the steps: 1. Mephisto is not much comparta ..

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RSpec - Behaviour Driven Development testing framework

Ruby on Rails 2.3.4: Security Fixes

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