In the most common sense we use it now, “apocalypse” means the end of the world. But originally, it meant a revelation—and that’s the sense I use it now.
Because Slantwise is pleased unveil a few of our internally developed Rails plugins as open source.
- refresh_to—a Ruby on Rails plugin that adds a refresh_to method to
ActionController::Base, allowing developers to avoid Internet Explorer security warnings when moving from a secure page to an insecure page. - YAML mail config—extract your SMTP server configuration into a YAML file to avoid error-prone repetition.
- acts_as_selectable—provides a
to_select_formmethod for your ActiveRecord classes that maps to the Rails select form helper format. - acts_as_invitation—easily integrate a “send to a friend” feature to an existing ActiveRecord model.
- url_key—create never-changing URL ‘slugs’ for permalinks based on attributes in your model.
All these are released under the MIT License, the same license as Rails.
