[Rails] Re: application design : background process

2009-05-13 Thread Francesc Esplugas
On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 4:40 PM, Adam Akhtar wrote: > can they perform tasks dynamically i.e. a task is initiated on a users > mouse click. I thought i saw a railscast that said they were only good > for prescheduled tasks. I've used them to send process to background, for a long running task,

[Rails] Re: application design : background process

2009-05-13 Thread Francesc Esplugas
I would use Workling + Starling, or the run_later plugin. You can find all of them at Github. On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 4:01 PM, Adam Akhtar wrote: > Im looking at backgroundrb and have read a guide in Advanced Rails > Recipe however thats for an older version of backgroundrb and the api > has cha

[Rails] Re: CMS and REST - best practices

2009-05-13 Thread Francesc Esplugas
On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 9:39 AM, John Small wrote: > The other thing I don't like about it is the assumption that a CMS is > used solely for publishing "articles". I guess if you spend your life > blogging then that's a sensible assumption, but most websites aren't > blogs or lists of articles.

[Rails] Re: Multilingual model content

2009-05-13 Thread Francesc Esplugas
Taking a look at the code, maintenance and test coverage in my opinion model_translations it's a better solution than translate_columns. http://github.com/janne/model_translations/tree/master On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 9:31 AM, Michael Rigart wrote: > I'm going to take a look at the RailsTra

[Rails] Re: Multilingual model content

2009-05-13 Thread Francesc Esplugas
On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 9:09 AM, Michael Rigart wrote: > it looked good till I started reading further. I saw that you need to > define every language that you want to support in your attributes. The > thing I wanted to do is make sure that the list of supported languages > is dynamic. In that

[Rails] Re: Multilingual model content

2009-05-13 Thread Francesc Esplugas
On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 8:56 AM, Michael Rigart wrote: > I need multilingual input in my models. Lets say you have a Product > model. That product contains title, description and price. The price is > allways the same, but the title and description need to be inputted in > diffrent languages. I