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Edtoral
by Olimpiu Metiu
Welome to the rt edton o Ral Magazne, the rt andonly 
 ree
magazne dedated to the Rby on Ral ommnty!I yo are ntereted n a qalty omplaton o tmely,relevant artle, wth edtoral overght and beatl layot,pleae hek ot the magazne reglarly or brbe onlneLong beore lanh, I wa mpreed wth the level o nteretand reeptvene Ral alway had a vbrant and dedated ommnty, and I hope Ral Magazne wll beome an appreatedreore or thoe lookng or qalty normaton — at the ametme provdng global expore to thoe ntereted n gettngpblhed009  hapng p to be a great year or Ral and t prattoner Contned adopton,  and 0 releae and a globalreeon hold make Rby and Ral more appealng than ever,a entreprener and enterpre alke are trvng to beomemore agle and oteetveRght now Ral Magazne  a one man how, bt expet that
 
to hange oon In at t  a great opportnty,  yo'd lke toget nvolved whle we're tartng Pleae pread the word abot, or get more nvolved a an athor, artt, ponor or partnerYor eedbak and nvolvement  mh appreated, o pleaeget n toh wth  at
editor@railsmagazine.com
Olimpiu Metiu
 a orontobaed arhtet andthe leader o the Emergent ehnologe grop atBell Canada H work nlde many o Canada'larget web te and ntranet portal A a longtme Ral enthat, he onded Ral Magazne aa way to gve bak to th amazng ommntyFollow me on wtter:
Connet on LnkedIn:
Discuss:
Community Pulse
We analyzed the repone tothe Ral/Merb merger onthe oal Ral blog Twordle how the relt
Content
 Editorial by Olimpiu Metiu2
 
Whle Ral  a ll tak web ramework, by degn Raldoe not am to nlde every poble eatre Tere are many reaon that the Ral Core eam wold hooe not to nlde aeatre  too ntable, too obre, or mply not needed n theore Ral dtrbton In at, there have been ntane whereeatre have been removed rom Ral and plaed nto a plgn!For example,
in_place_edit
and
auto_complete_for
were removedrom Ral n veron 0o help developer who are lookng to add, replae, ormody Ral' eatre et, Ral ha been blt wth a hghly extenble nratrtre Mot addton and modaton ome aplgn Whle many plgn extend one o the major lae nRal, lke
ActionView::Base
or
ActiveRecord::Base
, yo are reeto reate yor own lae or modle Moreover, plgn anhave ther own Rake ak and tet Eentally, plgn are el ontaned Ral pe lbrareOne o the bet way to e plgn  the ree ode yond yorel ng rom projet to projet Robby Rell ha anexellent example h team at Planet Argon ed n ther applaton, Flah Meage Condtor  Fndng that Ral' ah wanadeqate or ther applaton, they were rewrtng mh o trom applaton to applaton Te team reated a plgn thatadded helper to add meage, error, and note to ah anda new
render_flash_messages
method to render them n a vewBy ng Flah Meage Condtor n ther applaton, PlanetArgon ha an mproved ah, a ommon nterae, and n a very DRY ahonFor th artle, we wll ontrt a mple plgn that wlladd a qote method to or model Or goal  very mplentonalty
a = User.newa.quote=> "If it bleeds, we can kill it."
We wll reate a Rake tak to generate a YAML le wth orqote, load that YAML le and e the data or or qoteWhle th  a arly trval plgn, my am  not to teah yohow to wrte a large, omplex plgn, bt gve yo the tart yoneed Let get tarted!Ral provde  wth a generator or reatng plgn
script/generate plugin quote
T wll reate a bare plgn n yor
vendor/plugin
dretory wth the ollowng trtre:
init.rb
 Loaded pon Ral tartng More ofen than not, twll reqre yor plgn le n the lb dretory
install.rb
 Rn when yo ntall the plgn ng Ral'rpt/plgn ntall ommand
lib/
 Te lb dretory  atomatally added to Ral' loadpath Ually yor plgn ode wll rede here
MIT-LICENSE
 Yor plgn hold nlde a lene, MI orotherwe
Rakefile
 Te man Rake denton or yor plgn
README
 Yo plgn' readme A hort ynop o yorplgn, t age, and any other note wold go here
tasks/
 Any tom Rake tak an go here For or plgn,we wll reate one
test/
 Yor plgn' tet hold go here When tet are rnon a plgn, Ral  not loadedBeore we go any rther, we hold reate a plan or howexatly or qote plgn hold workFrt, we hold reate aRake tak whh reate or YAML le lled wth qote Aferor Rake tak  ompleted, we wll reate an ntrb le that wllreqre the or qoterb le n the lb dretory and load orqoteyml le nto an array o qote We wll reate a newModle,
Quote::ClassMethods
to hoe or new method, and addthoe method to
ActiveRecord::Base
a to be avalable n model
 
John Yerhot
lve n Northern Mnneotawth h we and dog where he ha beenwrtng Ral applaton or the K1edaton ytem n Mnneota Hemantan a blog at
 and an be reahed at
 john@yerhot.org 
Extendng Ral Trogh Plgn
by John Yerhot 
continued on page 15
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