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CakePHP’s setFlash() compared to Rails flash
CakePHP is a great framework. I love it. It’s simple and you can build applications really fast. Anyway, since I also tried Ruby on Rails there are ceratin things that annoy me. Little things. For example the “flash messages”.
What’s that? Here ’s the rails documentation and here’s the cake documentation. You can use the flash [...]
Setting a visible default value for text and password inputs as well as textareas – empty on click
It’s really a simple thing: Give a textfield or a password field a visible default value, if the user clicks on it remove it and let him type… . This “ui-pattern” is often used instead of a label tag. You find it on many sites where there’s little space. Login-Forms with a default value that [...]
How to deploy a rails application – installing and using mod_rails aka passenger
Ruby on Rails is great and it is really fun to develop with it. But when it comes to deployment it’s hard for a beginner. I tried different approaches, cgi, fastcgi and mod_rails.
I really love mod_rails (also known as passenger), it’s easy to install and to deploy your application: you just need to upload it. [...]