usage: just like using link_to_remote, yet we don’t specify “name”, since there’s no text going inside the tag except the onclick event info

//e.g:
<<%= onclick_to_remote :url => my_restful_url %>; class="my_1">;

I works for me and get the work done.. arguments such as :with are supported.. Posting it here hoping someone will find it useful or may be improve it as well.
check out the pastie for better viewing pleasure and understanding http://pastie.caboo.se/200546

def onclick_to_remote(options = {})
*args = remote_function(options)
function = args[0] || ''
function = update_page(&block) if block_given?
"onclick=\"#{function}; return false;\""
end

I’m posting what I did and it changes the filenames to what ever we specify.. Works for me, and hopefully it will work for someone else as well.. :)

checkout the pastie for a better view of the code http://pastie.caboo.se/161062

class Photo < ActiveRecord::Base
	#Options for has_attachment
	has_attachment	:content_type	=> :image,
			:storage 	=> :file_system,
			:size => 1.kilobyte .. 10.megabytes,
			:resize_to => '500>',
			:thumbnails => { :thumb => '125' },
			:path_prefix => 'public/images/product_pics',
			:processor    => 'MiniMagick'
	validates_as_attachment

	belongs_to  :product

	#Filename changing stuff, these methods resides in attachement_fu plugin files..
	#and we are just modifying them to fit our needs and putting them in our model
	#so other models will not be effected
	def full_filename(thumbnail = nil)
		file_system_path = (thumbnail ? thumbnail_class : self).attachment_options[:path_prefix]
		@thumb = self.thumbnail unless (@thumb = thumbnail) #checks if thumbnails info already exist
		File.join(RAILS_ROOT, file_system_path, self.product.code, thumbnail_name_for(@thumb, self.product.code))
	end

	#Change the filenames and thumbnail suffixes
	def thumbnail_name_for(thumbnail = nil, asset = nil)
		suffix = "_#{thumbnail}" unless thumbnail.blank?  #sets suffix by the name of the thumbnail set in has_attachment options
		extension = filename.scan(/\.\w+$/) # extracts extension
		return "#{asset}#{suffix}#{extension}" # change the filename to fit your needs
	end

	before_thumbnail_saved do |record, thumbnail|
		thumbnail.product_id = record.product_id
	end

end

Right click and save the files.

Admin Lounge Controller:

class Admin::ProductsController

This has been well explained here and it helped me to fix few things which I’ve been struggling to do and also convinced me i was doing something meaningful.

then if we need to use restful routing for these and if you dont know how to create the route similar to admin_products_url or edit_admin_product_url. routes.rb got an example how to get it done. However you can find a better example here.

Controller Inheritance
http://justinfrench.com/index.php?id=122

RESTful routes for Controller Inheritance
http://railstips.org/2007/4/28/namespaces-added-to-routes

Great RESTful RAILS tutorial
http://www.b-simple.de/download/restful_rails_en.pdf

There are many installation instructions and fixes posted everywhere. I thought of putting my own version to consolidate installation instructions and fixes to possible problems. I’ve also listed the sources I’ve referred myself and its recommended visit those websites if you need more detailed instructions as well as up-to-date news.

POSSIBLE ISSUES

• rubygems (LoadError) require’: no such file to load – rubygems (LoadError)
• MySql socket error No such file or directory - /tmp/mysql.sock
• Open ssl problem when starting Webrick server

1. Install libopenssl-ruby1.8 » fixes the Webrick server error on startup

2. Install libmysqlclient15-dev » fixes the MySQL sock not found issue
Reference:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RubyOnRails

3. Install Ruby and Gems
Even though you can easily get ruby installed using apt-get it doesn’t fix the issue. We’ll have to compile it ourselves.
Reference:
http://www.thirdbit.net/articles/2007/10/04/installing-ruby-186-on-ubuntu-feisty-fawn-704/
http://www.urbanpuddle.com/articles/2007/08/17/mongrel-cluster-1-0-2-and-ruby-1-8-5
http://www.urbanpuddle.com/articles/2008/01/09/install-ruby-on-rails-on-ubutu-gutsy-gibbon-apache-version

1. Download ruby
2. tar xjvf ruby-1.8.6.tar.bz2
3. cd ruby-1.8.6
4. sudo apt-get build-dep ruby1.8
5. ./configure –prefix=/usr
6. make
7. sudo make install
8. ruby -v and if you see something like ruby 1.8.6 (2007-03-13 patchlevel 0) [i686-linux] ruby is installed :)
9. then we install ruby gems. download rubygems and extract it.
10. cd rubygems-1.0.1
11. sudo ruby setup.rb

4. Install Rails
Reference:
http://rubyonrails.com/down
http://rubyonrails.com/

sudo gem install rails –include-dependencies

We are done.. Worked for me, and fingers crossed it’ll work for anyone as well :)

I’ve been evaluating almost every editor available. I’ve tried Aptana studio RadRails yet it seems to be too heavy if you are just a simple RAILS developer with a low end system, otherwise its a feature rich, cross-platform and actively developed.

I came across this cool program named RoRED. Light weight and easy to use. Sure may have lot of things to improve but with its code completing macros RoRED gets the job done well for me (so far). It’s not Open Source (but as of today it’s free) yet worth a look if you are looking for a lightweight and good IDE for RAILS.