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OneBody Demo

Posted by: timmorgan on: July 29, 2008

In: Press| Websites
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Jacques Crocker has featured OneBody on the Open Source Rails site, and so graciously put up a live demo of OneBody at onebody.opensourcerails.com. (I had turned off the demo awhile back to free up some resources on my host.)
Thanks Jacques!

Tags: demo, opensourcerails, Press

OneBody 0.7.0

Posted by: timmorgan on: July 23, 2008

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I just merged the Refactor branch into Master and tagged the code as release 0.7.0. This is a big milestone for OneBody; lots of things have changed.
The wiki needs some major love, and I hope to get to that later tonight.
In short, some of the new features are:

Content Management System
Use OneBody as your church website [...]

Tags: 0.7.0, Features, master, merge, release, Releases

Auto Expiring Rails Caching

Posted by: timmorgan on: July 21, 2008

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Rails has some pretty easy-to-use caching built-in. I don’t know about everyone else, but I know for me, the word “memcache” always scared me. It sounds like some ominous, mysterious, magical thing that takes a Ph.D. to understand.
Rails caching, on the other hand, is just Ruby. And I like Ruby.
But still, it seems to be [...]

Tags: caching, Code

Routes

Posted by: timmorgan on: July 18, 2008

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RESTful Resources kick butt, even if only for the simplicity of the route generation. Check out the difference between the Master branch and the Refactor branch…
config/routes.rb from Master:

config/routes.rb from Refactor:

Just about half the LOC… and much easier to follow.

Tags: loc, routes

Refactor Branch

Posted by: timmorgan on: July 17, 2008

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There hasn’t been much updating on this blog, but that doesn’t mean I haven’t been busy! A ton of work has been going into the “refactor” branch on GitHub. Check it out.
Some highlights:

Most controllers are now RESTful.
OneBody now has the concept of plugins (beyond Rails plugins) that can add functionality without hacking a lot of [...]

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