The Chris O Show

Dave Naffis blogged about this neat plugin that handles all kinds of session manipulation stuff, including the ability to call a method when you expire a session.

This was just what the doctor ordered for me – I had some cleanup code to call on session expiration, and darned if I could figure out how to do this…

With the SessionExpiration plugin it’s a piece of cake

class SomeController < ApplicationController
  expire_session_in 5.minutes, :after_expiration => session_expiry

  def session_expiry
    # Do awesome cleanup operations here!
  end

Daves blog: http://www.naffis.com

Install SessionExpiration like this:

script/plugin install http://svn.intridea.com/svn/public/session_expiration/

I contributed my first ever open source patch this weekend, to Geoffrey Grosenbachs awesomely simple calendar_helper Rails plugin.

You can install this into your current rails app with:

script/plugin install http://topfunky.net/svn/plugins/calendar_helper

My humble patch added the ability to display the current date on the calendar like so (the magic blue square):

Something fun for me was how amazing it was to create a patch using subversion – you just type

svn diff  > patch_file_name.diff

And it creates this wonderful magic patch file that details all the changes you’ve made! I just had to send this to Geoffrey and he did some subversion magic to easily commit my changes.

I think this creating patch thing is gonna get addictive…

ALSO I note that Tom Armitage added some functionality into this patch as well to do with what markup the calendar uses. (It was also his first patch experience). Find him here: Another day, another release – updated calendar_helper