Rails 2.2 has straightforward, plugin-free support for timezones and localization. Woot to rails core, goodbye to tzinfo.

But what if you need to use a variable using a MySQL::time column – like lunch_time that describes a time of day? Lets use the example of an Activ... more »

Everyone agrees that MySQL alone isn’t a great solution for text searching. Whenever the need arises, I’ve always recommended jumping ship to sphinx. And sphinx is great – it works, it’s highly customizable, and it’s free. But it doesn’t really come for free, it has overhead. You have to manage your indexer cron j... more »

Not too long ago Peter wrote about BrowserWar and the IEWarfare project. BrowserWar is now available as a Rails plugin at github.

The BrowserWar plugin helps you detect IE, and enables easy detection and custom display messages of any browser/version. To install the BrowserWar plugin i... more »

MarkItUp! is a cool textile editor. It is fairly easy to integrate with Rails, but it relies on jQuery, so you must make the jQuery function calls and the Prototype function calls play nice with each other.                       &nbs... more »