It's a pretty straightforward process. Download the source and compile it. There isn't a package for it so here are the commands. wget http://sphinxsearch.com/downloads/sphinx-0.9.8.1.tar.gz tar xzvf sphinx-0.9.8.1.tar.gz cd sphinx-0.9.8.1/ ./configure...

Extending forms in Rails is simple and will greatly reduce the amount of code in your views. This example is taken right from the Agile Web Development book on Rails(2.1.*) with one minor tweak. I want to pass a label argument along with the field name so...

Here is a code snippet that demonstrates how to set up a __ManyToMany through__ relationship in Django. In Rails, the equivalent would be called a __has_many through__ association. If you set the __through__ argument on the ManyToManyField, Django wil...

Versioning models with the acts_as_versioned plugin cd rails/app ./script/plugin install git://github.com/technoweenie/acts_as_versioned.git ./script/generate model post title:string body:text In your model class Post < ActiveRecord::Base acts_as_ve...