Working With Rails

Rails Sites

Metromix

Entertainment web site for Chicago, New York, Los Angeles, Baltimore, Hartford, South Florida, Orlando, and more.

ZooZag.com

Free classified listings with capabilities to promote ads online or in print.

The Guide

Entertainment listings site for Orlando

Find Local Deals

Deals sent to your phone from local merchants via SMS messages.

Get Me Gregs

Office catering for Chicago, IL. (Currently offline; victim of the recession).

Plus a whole plethora of internal tools used to run Tribune Company web sites.

Plugins

Lazy Methods

Allows better integration of view caching with controller logic.

Pseudo Cursors

Adds cursor like results set to ActiveRecord.

HTTP Configuration

Allows external configuration of proxies and timeouts to Net::HTTP for better integration of other plugins that make HTTP connections into your environment.

ActAsTrashable

Keeps a record of deleted records from the database so that they can be restored later if necessary.

ActAsRevisionable

Keeps a track of changes to records so they can be audited and restored.

Seamless Database Pool

Pure ruby database adapter for using a master/slave database cluster with ActiveRecord to improve performance and reliability.

Faster_from_xml

LibXML backed replacement for the Hash.from_xml method which provides a ten fold improvement in performance.