Andrzej's Rails tips #4

will_paginate in other languages

The default labels for the will_paginate are 'Next' and 'previous'. It's trivial to change them like that:

<%= will_paginate :prev_label => 'Wstecz', :next_label => 'Dalej'%>

Rails plugins, Piston and URLs

I use piston for plugins management. It's a nice tool that allows you to call 'piston up' on any of the plugins, at any time to update. What it does worse than 'script/plugin' command is managing different repositories. With the 'plugin' command you can say:

script/plugin source URL

and it adds the URL to the list of known repositories.

What I use with Piston instead, is storing the urls as environment variables. Here is an excerpt of my ~/.bash_login file:

export ATTACHMENT_FU=http://svn.techno-weenie.net/projects/plugins/attachment_fu/
export RESOURCE_CONTROLLER=http://svn.jamesgolick.com/resource_controller/tags/stable/
export ATTRIBUTE_FU=http://svn.jamesgolick.com/attribute_fu/tags/stable
export RESTFUL_AUTHENTICATION=http://svn.techno-weenie.net/projects/plugins/restful_authentication/
export RSPEC=http://rspec.rubyforge.org/svn/tags/CURRENT/rspec
export RSPEC_ON_RAILS=http://rspec.rubyforge.org/svn/tags/CURRENT/rspec_on_rails

So I just type 'piston import $ATTA', press TAB, and the shell autocompletion does it for me.