HowTo: Import your posts from Blogspot/Blogger

I needed to import blogspot blogs into a different system. I created a plugin that simply parses the xml file that is generated when you export your blogspot blog. Here is the link to github.

HowTo: Integrate with ConstantContact

I’ve started working on a plugin for ConstantContact. You can find the latest development here.

I hope you find it useful in integrating your Rails Apps with ConstantContact.

HowTo: Pagination

Pagination was removed from the core of Rails. Among the solutions that can be found on the internet, the mislav-will_paginate plug-in is among the easiest to implement.

Note: the pagination is implemented on the page level, it will modify the URL string on the GET request.

Follow the installation instructions here.

Follow the section on “Using Rails 2.1 gem dependencies”.

That should install the mislav-will_paginate gem. Doing a gem list will show you its there.

Usage instructions can be found here.