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HTTP AUTH logout method

This code cause logout feeling for your user. The browser will ask again the username and password.

<?php
  header('WWW-Authenticate: Basic realm="protected area"');
  header('HTTP/1.0 401 Unauthorized');
?>

I use it with a logout controller, that set a session variable to true and redirect the request to the home page. And the home page check this session variable, and if it true, it sends these headers and set back the session variable to null.

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Open Source CRM Comparison

I would like to choose an ideal CRM for a client. It must be open source. But I don't know CRM systems. I'm starting discover world of CRM systems by this post.

1. Zurmo

Pro:
Awesome design and user interface
Fast ajax and Yii in use
You can configure data structures (contact, company, task, meeting). You can extend anything with custom fields.

Con:
Very young CRM with actually smaller community than other CRMs
Some feature is missing: E-mail marketing, Google Calendar integration, etc.

2. vTiger

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Fastest and easy to use URL shortener

Here is my favorite tool: . This is fast and really easy to use . There are some alias for it: , resize-links.com, , etc. All of these are the same link shortener tool. No advertisement all. There is the fastest redirection that I have ever seen. Try it and use it.

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jQuery link click href value

I've wrote these words on google. And I don't find the exact solution.

The problem:
What Should I write in the href? If I write # sign then browser go to the top of page. I wouldn't like to go to the top of page.

Here is the HTML:

<a href="#" id="example" >Click</a>

jQuery code:

PHP normalize function

I post my normalization function. This function find all illegal characters (like: Ő, Ű, ú, í, etc. ) and replace it to latin1 chars. (like: O, U, u, i, etc.) This function works for me on hungarian words. Try it on your text and post your comment about it.

Locomotive CMS

Today, I found a really good . I'm looking for ruby 3 CMS for a while. I found this CMS solution that use my favorite NoSQL database system: . I think multi site feature is rare in ror applications. Locomotive CMS do it.

Locomotive is an open source CMS for Rails 3. It's super flexible and integrates with Heroku and Amazon

Some features from :

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Resolve Ruby on Rails UTF-8 error message: invalid multibyte char (US-ASCII)

I got the following error when i run a rake db:seed command on may RoR application:
invalid multibyte char (US-ASCII)

I found the soution and the error has gone away:
You should add a line to your file:

# encoding: utf-8

You can change the utf-8 to any other encoding that you use.
I added this line to my seeds.rb file and all UTF-8 code have been executed without errors.

Rails 3 Content Management Systems (CMS) - 2011

I've collected all open source CMS based on rails 3.x.

Rails CMS/Wiki/Forum

This is a very simple but feature rich CMS framework. It is good startpoint for a new rails project what will be wiki, Forum or CMS

Source:

Casein CMS

This is a very minimal and lightweight CMS. Only users table created on rak db:migrate. It is a good start point for any content based application. This application scaffolding your rails app with a very beauty user interface.

how to install Ruby on rails webshop?

You have installed RoR3 and now you want to install a rails3 webshop.

I think the best solution is Spree. This is the only rails3 based e-commerce solution at this time.

How do you install this shop?

rails new rails3-shop
cd rails3-shop

edit Gemfile and add new line

gem 'spree'

Install new spree site.

rails g spree:site
rake spree:install
rake db:migrate
rake db:seed
rails server

The rails server command starts the webrick server. You should go to http://localhost:3000/ to check spree.