Attachment Fu Cropping Up to Date

So. I took the link to the evil twin plugin for my attachment_fu hack down when I moved from Dreamhost, and never got it up anywhere else.

Until now! I’ve had a couple of questions about where it had gone, so I pulled my finger out. It’s on github so you can install…

script/plugin install...

Evil Twin attachment_fu with ImageScience and MiniMagick

There’s now a forked version of attachment_fu with the hack built in.

By far the highest trafficked page on this site is my hack for attachment_fu that gives you non-rubbish thumbnailing, cropped without screwing up the proportions of the image.

Having read the Errtheblog post about...

Setup a Ruby on Rails Development Mac on OS X Leopard

Only a few weeks ago I wrote up my method for setting up a freshly unboxed Mac for Rails development. I’m now, as one of the apple faithful, upgraded to the latest version of OS X; Leopard.

The biggest change is the inclusion of Rails out of the box, meaning that the palaver of installing it all...

Setting up a Ruby on Rails Development Mac

If you’re using Mac OS X Leopard you might want to try my updated guide to setting up a Ruby on Rails Mac.

I’ve used various Macs for web development, including Ruby On Rails, over the last couple of years and with a few new Macs arriving in the office it’s become clear that I should make a...

Alternate Capistrano Usernames

At bezurk I’m using my own laptop to create great masterpieces of HTML (ahem), but as such my Macbook isn’t configured quite the same as everyone else’s.

Like good developers we’re now using Capistrano 2 to deploy the products on the site. If you’re not using it you should be, it has it’s...

Real Buttons in Rails - A Route to Sexy Forms

Coming from a CSS/XHTML Web Standards background my approach to Rails has been slightly different from others. My views on the borderline heretical inline Javascript of some of the more AJAX-y methods has been dealt with by Dan and Luke and their utterly fabulous Unobtrusive Javascript...

Cropped Thumbnails in attachment_fu using ImageScience

I’ve forked the git repository of attachment_fu to include this technique.

There’s now an evil twin plugin version of this method for ImageScience and miniMagick.

Upon discovering attachment_fu by the awesome Rick Olsen and the (not as scary as RMagick) ImageScience I believed all my...

RESTful Rails and Unobtrusive Javascript

The major project I’m working on has resulted in a lot of reading. I’ve brushed up by reading Transcending CSS, DOM Scripting and reread the latest version of Agile Web Development with Rails. All of which are marvellous.

Being a fan of both the unobtrusive scripting approach and Rails means the...