About benhumphreys.co.uk

benhumphreys.co.uk runs Ruby on Rails, and was coded using TextMate on an old iBook. Icons are Silk Icons from famfamfam.com.

Plugins Used

Plugins are one of the nice things about Rails, stopping you from having to reinvent the wheel. Here's what's used in benhumphreys.co.uk

• Coderay: Text highlighting
• Bluecloth: Text formatting using Markdown
• Ruby GetText: Localisation support
• Acts as Taggable on Steroids: Tagging/keywords
• Mootools: Javascript framework

Rails Resources

I recommend Agile Development with Rails, and to a lesser extent, Four Days on Rails. They both helped me a lot when learning Rails from scratch.