Random Hacks: Typo sidebars: Recent Comments and Tagged Articles

"Typo sidebars: Recent Comments and Tagged Articles" by tony

Sat, 04 Feb 2006 22:23:32 -0500

Good news, Eric. Looks like the typo developers have changed their data model. Your original solution works with 2.6.0 (that’s the only one I’ve tested with); there’s no need for the hand-crafted query anymore!

"Typo sidebars: Recent Comments and Tagged Articles" by Eric

Sun, 13 Nov 2005 22:44:58 -0500

The fading effect is done with Script.aculo.us, a spiffy but rather undocumented Javascript library.

You can find it in the public/javascripts directory of your Rails application.

"Typo sidebars: Recent Comments and Tagged Articles" by pknodle

Sun, 13 Nov 2005 21:40:02 -0500

Whoa! That fading effect was kewl! Let’s do that again!

"Typo sidebars: Recent Comments and Tagged Articles" by pknodle

Sun, 13 Nov 2005 21:39:30 -0500

Cool site. I need to look in to the layouts to make spiffy sites like this.

BTW, the code text box messed with scrolling with the scrollwheel on FireFox on Linux.

Typo sidebars: Recent Comments and Tagged Articles

Eric Kidd — Sun, 13 Nov 2005 21:04:00 -0500

Here's two new plugins for Typo, the cool Rails-based blogging software. The first shows a list of recent comments. The second shows articles with a specific tag. (I use it to implement the "Recommended Reading" list in my sidebar.)

To install the plugins, simply unzip them in your Typo root directory, restart Typo, and take a look at the "Sidebar" tab in the admin screen.

These plugins were unbelievably simple to write. If you'd like to see how they work, keep reading.