Support for calling conditions off polymorphic relationships was added to Searchlogic.

I've got quite a few emails asking me the best way to use geokit with searchlogic. So I wrote an article describing how I do this. Hopefully this helps some of you. If not, its an interesting way to change the behavior of named_scopes.

I share my thoughts on why I'm discontinuing resourcelogic, and why I advise against using similar libraries

I released a new feature in searchlogic, that allows you to combine named scopes with 'OR'.

Ever wondered how ActiveRecord is able to pull of it's nifty tricks with associations? The answer is creating a proxy class. It's actually nice tool to have in your nerdy tool belt.

Searchlogic v2 was released today. Searchlogic provides common named scopes and object based searching for ActiveRecord. V2 is a complete rewrite of the library. No code was reused, it went from ~2300 lines of code to ~400 lines of code. The big change is leveraging named scopes to do everything. I hope you enjoy it, check out the README for more info.

I got an idea today about starting an exclusive programming community. I share my thoughts on the subject, but wanted to get some feedback. Good idea? Bad idea?

I compiled a list of ruby tips that I thought might be helpful and save you some time.

Authlogic 2.0 and AuthlogicOpenid 1.0.

Stop picking on alias_method_chain, it's not as evil as you may think.

Searchloigc 1.5.7 was released and with it came some handy features that allow your forms to represent complex searches (condition grouping, "AND" and "OR" combinations, etc.).

Storing nuclear launch codes in your app? If so, you will like Authlogic 1.3.2, which has added BCrypt as an encryption option. Checkout the blog post / tutorial.

Authlogic 1.2.2 has been released along with an OpenID tutorial that uses some of the new features. OpenID integration has never felt so right.

Authlogic 1.2.0 released with password reset support and a tutorial to get you up and running.

Tutorial: Authlogic basic setup. A detailed walk through of setting up Authlogic in a rails app.

The suits win: "gasm" gets renamed to "logic".

Tutorial: caching virtual attributes in the database makes you cool

Tutorial: paginating, ordering, and searching no longer a pain in the ass with a live example.

Searchgasm released! From the views to the controller, this makes searching with ActiveRecord quick and painless. Check it out on GitHub.