I just read the article by Pratik Naik from the Rails Core Team regarding Rails Templates.

Have you ever wished you could start out your Rails application with all of your gems installed and all of your standard setup items completed? Well, wait no longer. You can now do it with Rails Templates. Pratik covered it pretty well, so I’m not going to repeat what he’s done. Rather, I’m going to share a template of my own and explain why I included what I did.

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action, annotate_models, authentication, controllers, create, cucumber, daemons, gems, generator, git, github, plugins, Pratik Naik, Rails, rails core, rake, rspec, rspec-rails, Ruby, Ruby on Rails

While looking at articles and resources about authentication in Ruby on Rails I ran across a set of generators written by Ryan Bates of Railscasts. You can find the nifty generators at http://github.com/ryanb/nifty-generators/tree/master

I ran the generators and have posted the resulting code at http://github.com/woody2shoes/nifty/tree/master.

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authentication, config, controllers, gems, layouts, migrations, models, Ruby on Rails, scaffold

RMagick is the Ruby wrapper for ImageMagick—the open source API for image manipulation. RMagick is used for graphing with the Gruff gem and many other things in Ruby and Ruby on Rails.

Installing RMagick on Mac OS X is pretty simple, but not as simple as typing gem install rmagick but pretty close.

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API, gems, imagemagick, Mac OS, rmagick