Personalise Site - Now implicitly gain a users geo data

The second version of the Personalise Site plugin has just been released and now includes methods to implicitly gain a users geo data. These additions are intended to be used to further customise and improve a users browsing experience. For example you may want to display content on a homepage that is relevant to a users location or you may want to automatically select the right country in a registration form to improve the signup experience. Note. This plugin will currently return UK if in development mode. This can be achieved in your views by making use of these methods: Returns which country the user is in <pre><%= which_country %></pre> Returns which city the user is in <pre><%= which_city %></pre> The users geographical coordinates longitude: <pre><%= longitude_coordinate %></pre> latitude: <pre><%= latitude_coordinate %></pre> As usual, if anyone has any suggestions on how to further improve this plugin, please send your comments over. Homepage: http://www.railslodge.com/plugins/303-personalise-site SVN: http://svn.railslodge.com/svn/plugins/personalise_site/

2007-12-01T23:41:26-08:00

2007-12-02T10:00:00-08:00

The second version of the Personalise Site plugin has just been released and now includes methods to implicitly gain a users geo data. These additions are intended to be used to further customise and improve a users browsing experience. For example you may want to display content on a homepage that is relevant to a users location or you may want to automatically select the right country in a registration form to improve the signup experience. Note. This plugin will currently return UK if in development mode. This can be achieved in your views by making use of these methods: Returns which country the user is in [code]<%= which_country %>[/code] Returns which city the user is in [code]<%= which_city %>[/code] The users geographical coordinates longitude: [code]<%= longitude_coordinate %>[/code] latitude: [code]<%= latitude_coordinate %>[/code] As usual, if anyone has any suggestions on how to further improve this plugin, please send your comments over. Homepage: http://www.railslodge.com/plugins/303-personalise-site SVN: http://svn.railslodge.com/svn/plugins/personalise_site/

2007-12-07T07:22:35-08:00

This plugin provides helpers for your views that allow you to gain implicit data about the user browsing the site. This is intended to be used to customise what the user see's, maybe to improve usability or for cross-browser issues The following methods are available: Returns the name of the browser the user is using <pre><%= which_browser %></pre> Returns the version number of the browser being used <pre><%= which_browser_version%></pre> Returns the name of the platform the user is using <pre><%= which_platform %></pre> Nil is always returned if the data is unavailable ==== Example usage An example below looks at the platform and outputs the right command to install this plugin <pre><% if which_platform? == 'Windows' -%> ruby script/plugin install http://svn.railslodge.com/svn/plugins/personalise_site/ <% elsif which_platform? == 'Mac' -%> ./script/plugin install http://svn.railslodge.com/svn/plugins/personalise_site/ <% else -%> script/plugin install http://svn.railslodge.com/svn/plugins/personalise_site/ <% end -%></pre>

2007-09-30T20:14:52-07:00

2007-09-30T20:14:00-07:00

This plugin provides helpers for your views that allow you to gain implicit data about the user browsing the site. This is intended to be used to customise what the user see's, maybe to improve usability or for cross-browser issues The following methods are available: Returns the name of the browser the user is using [code]<%= which_browser %>[/code] Returns the version number of the browser being used [code]<%= which_browser_version%>[/code] Returns the name of the platform the user is using [code]<%= which_platform %>[/code] Nil is always returned if the data is unavailable ==== Example usage An example below looks at the platform and outputs the right command to install this plugin [code]<% if which_platform? == 'Windows' -%> ruby script/plugin install http://svn.railslodge.com/svn/plugins/personalise_site/ <% elsif which_platform? == 'Mac' -%> ./script/plugin install http://svn.railslodge.com/svn/plugins/personalise_site/ <% else -%> script/plugin install http://svn.railslodge.com/svn/plugins/personalise_site/ <% end -%>[/code]

New Plugin - Personalise Site

2007-12-01T21:23:59-08:00

TextFormatter plugin allows you filter user input, use the syntax gem, before it is saved to the database. Install the plugin: <pre class="terminal">ruby script\plugin install http://svn.railslodge.com/svn/plugins/text_formatter/</pre> Install the following gems: <pre class="terminal">gem install htmltokenizer gem install syntax gem install hpricot</pre> If you are using the syntax highlighting method, copy the css from /vender/plugins/text_formatter/stylesheets/text_formatter.css into your css file. The following methods can be used in your models: ===Remove HTML Tags Remove all html tags from the given fields <pre>tf_remove_html_tags :fieldname #e.g. tf_remove_html_tags :title, :post</pre> ===Escape HTML Characters Escape all tags and special characters <pre>tf_escape_html_characters :fieldname #e.g. tf_escape_all_html_characters :title, :post</pre> ===Escape Only Text Characters Escape all text except html tags <pre>tf_escape_text_characters :fieldname #e.g. tf_escape_text_characters :title, :post</pre> ===Syntax Highlighting Add syntax highlighting to all text within pre tags <pre>tf_syntax_highlighting :fieldname #e.g. tf_syntax_highlighting :title, :post</pre> ===Simple Text Markup Apply SimpleTextMarkup <pre>tf_simple_text_markup :fieldname #e.g. tf_simple_text_markup :title, :post</pre> ===Content Formatter Remove all html tags, SimpleTextMarkup, encode tags within html tags, syntax highlighting <pre>tf_content_formatter :fieldname #e.g. tf_content_formatter :title, :post</pre> ===Basic Formatter Remove all html tags, SimpleTextMarkup, encode tags within html tags <pre>tf_basic_formatter :fieldname #e.g. tf_basic_formatter :title, :post</pre>

2007-09-10T23:57:12-07:00

2007-09-10T23:55:00-07:00

TextFormatter plugin allows you filter user input, use the syntax gem, before it is saved to the database. Install the plugin: [terminal]ruby script\plugin install http://svn.railslodge.com/svn/plugins/text_formatter/[/terminal] Install the following gems: [terminal]gem install htmltokenizer gem install syntax gem install hpricot[/terminal] If you are using the syntax highlighting method, copy the css from /vender/plugins/text_formatter/stylesheets/text_formatter.css into your css file. The following methods can be used in your models: ===Remove HTML Tags Remove all html tags from the given fields [code]tf_remove_html_tags :fieldname #e.g. tf_remove_html_tags :title, :post[/code] ===Escape HTML Characters Escape all tags and special characters [code]tf_escape_html_characters :fieldname #e.g. tf_escape_all_html_characters :title, :post[/code] ===Escape Only Text Characters Escape all text except html tags [code]tf_escape_text_characters :fieldname #e.g. tf_escape_text_characters :title, :post[/code] ===Syntax Highlighting Add syntax highlighting to all text within pre tags [code]tf_syntax_highlighting :fieldname #e.g. tf_syntax_highlighting :title, :post[/code] ===Simple Text Markup Apply SimpleTextMarkup [code]tf_simple_text_markup :fieldname #e.g. tf_simple_text_markup :title, :post[/code] ===Content Formatter Remove all html tags, SimpleTextMarkup, encode tags within html tags, syntax highlighting [code]tf_content_formatter :fieldname #e.g. tf_content_formatter :title, :post[/code] ===Basic Formatter Remove all html tags, SimpleTextMarkup, encode tags within html tags [code]tf_basic_formatter :fieldname #e.g. tf_basic_formatter :title, :post[/code]

New Plugin - Text Formatter

2007-09-10T23:57:12-07:00

This is a simple plugin that will add a before_save callback to add nofollow to all links within the given fields. Example use: Install the plugin: <pre class="terminal">ruby script\plugin install http://svn.railslodge.com/svn/plugins/nofollow_links/</pre> Simply add this to the required fields e.g. Example model: <pre>class Plugin < ActiveRecord::Base #plugins nofollow_links :content, :title end</pre> See http://www.railslodge.com/plugins/106-nofollow-links for further details.

2007-09-08T19:26:16-07:00

2007-09-08T19:23:00-07:00

This is a simple plugin that will add a before_save callback to add nofollow to all links within the given fields. Example use: Install the plugin: [terminal]ruby script\plugin install http://svn.railslodge.com/svn/plugins/nofollow_links/[/terminal] Simply add this to the required fields e.g. Example model: [code]class Plugin < ActiveRecord::Base #plugins nofollow_links :content, :title end[/code] See http://www.railslodge.com/plugins/106-nofollow-links for further details.

New Plugin - Nofollow Links

2007-09-08T19:29:12-07:00