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Alex Dunae (Alex)

acts_as_slugable by Alex Dunae (Alex) in Utilities and ActiveRecord

Generates a URL slug based on a specific fields (e.g. title). A url slug is a string derived from a specific field which can the be used in a URL. For instance, a page with the title <tt>My page</tt> would have a URL slug of <tt>my-page</tt>. The slug is generated on save and create actions. If the field has an existing URL slug (like when editing an existing record) the URL slug is preserved. URL slugs are unique within the specified scope (or all records if no scope is defined). If the slug already exists within the scope, <tt>-n</tt> is added (e.g. <tt>my-page-0</tt>, <tt>my-page-1</tt>, etc...

Discus extractor by Alex Dunae (Alex) in Rake Tasks

Ruby script to extract the data from the horrible static files created by Discus freeware-edition forum into nice clean CSV files.

suggests_id by Alex Dunae (Alex) in Utilities, ActiveRecord, and Miscellaneous

Suggests an identifier/url chunk based on provided fields. I use this plugin to generate login names, e-mail addresses and URLs for user-entered content. The plugin takes one or more strings as input, sanitizes the input and generates a list of possible IDs. The shortest ID is returned.

validates_email_format_of by Alex Dunae (Alex) in Security & Protection, ActiveRecord, and Miscellaneous

Rock solid e-mail validation of e-mail addresses against RFC 2822. Test cases are included.

W3C Validators by Alex Dunae (Alex) in Testing and Miscellaneous Gem Available!

W3C Validators is a Ruby wrapper for the World Wide Web Consortium's online validation services. It supports the markup validator, the feed validator and the CSS validator.