Dummies guide for using Slideshare Api using Ruby

unix timestamp => TS = Time.now.to_i
get hash => HASH = Digest::SHA1.hexdigest(sharedsecret+TS)
Api Key => AKEY


AKEY and sharedsecret will be mailed to you once you apply for API

http://www.slideshare.net/developers/documentation

for ex:
http://www.slideshare.net/api/1/get_slideshow?api_key=AKEY&ts=TS&hash=HASH&username=UN&password=PWD&slideshow_id=Sid

unix timestamp in ruby

Time.now.to_i

for more http://wiki.rubyonrails.org/rails/pages/PhpDateAndTimeFunctions

Adding classes/style to django form elements

The 'attrs' argument to the Widget class used with each particular
Field (the Widget is what actually renders the HTML) accepts a
dictionary which will become HTML attribute names and values. For
example:

username = forms.CharField(widget=forms.TextInput(attrs={'class': 'myclass'}))

will become:



the old forms default of having class attributes for each
input type (e.g. class=vTextField for type=text)

populating select box from database ror

controller code looks something like:

class testController < ApplicationController

def test
@categories= Category.find_all
end

end

use
<%= options_from_collection_for_select @categories, 'id', 'name' %>
to populate the select box



<%= options_from_collection_for_select @categories, 'id', 'name' %>