Reemployment August 10th, 2007
I have been busy, and hence quiet lately.
I was hired by Ramped Media to work on imthere.com. We are rolling out all kinds of new features and I think it is going to be a really great site. Really exciting time to be joining them, and its keeping me pretty busy, hence the recent silence.
In other news, some users were kind enough to point out some bugs in the user-owned tagging portions of acts_as_taggable_redux. I think they have all been smoothed out, so it is hopefully an even more complete and robust tagging solution than before. As per usual if issues come up, email me and I'll sort them out. Thanks.
acts_as_authenticated spasms July 10th, 2007
Real obscure error...
The mephisto blog system uses http-authentication from acs_as_authenticated to protect the overview feed(the feed details all activity on the blog).
I was modifying my dispatch.fcgi file to pass the authentication headers but it kept failing mysteriously. acts_as_authenticated splits the decoded data as "user:pass", but doesn't consider leftovers, like say a ":" in your password(as there was in mine). Then you get failures and confusion.
So don't put a colon in your password, and I will submit a patch.
[Update] Patch submitted.
user owned tagging June 15th, 2007
Tagging usually involves many users individually tagging things. Often it is important to track who tagged what. I wanted to make this easy to do, so I have added user owned tagging capabilities to acts_as_taggable_redux.
The plugin can continue to be used like it was before, but you can also pass user_id to relevant functions to assign an owner. See the README for more detailed examples, and let me know how it can be improved on.
acts_as_taggable_redux plugin released May 15th, 2007
I finished up the tagging plugin I have been working on today.
It builds on top of work that others have done and I hope improves on things in a few ways. Notably it fleshes out the rails core proof of concept acts_as_taggable and makes it much easier to use. It also adds a migration generator and tag_cloud functionality and a helper.
I will probably continue to work on it as inspiration strikes for improvement, but it works well now. You can check it out here: geemus.devjavu.com.
Shoot me an email with any questions/comments or concerns.