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5.5. Resources

For another way to create navigation links, as well as some nice-looking tabbed navigations, take a look at the Widgets plugin from SeeSaw at www.seesaw.it/en/toolbox/widgets. A mechanism for using pure CSS to create menus was created by Eric Meyer and can be found at http://meyerweb.com/eric/css/edge/menus/demo.html.

The home of Acts As Taggable On Steroids (AATOS) is http://agilewebdevelopment.com/plugins/acts_as_taggable_on_steroids. The implementation of the tag cloud in this chapter was partially inspired by Juixe TechKnow's version at www.juixe.com/techknow/index.php/2006/07/15/acts-as-taggable-tag-cloud.

Gregg Pollack and Jason Seifer of Rails Envy have a great tutorial on the Acts as Ferret plugin at www.railsenvy.com/2007/2/19/acts-as-ferret-tutorial. (Also check out their parodies of the "I'm A Mac" ads.) The MySQL full-text searching referenced in this chapter is explained in more detail in the MySQL documentation at http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/fulltext-search.html.

The will_paginate plugin lives at http://errtheblog.com/post/4791, and you can find paginating_find at http://cardboardrocket.com/pages/paginating_find. A quick helper method to integrate will_paginate and acts_as_ferret can be found at http://opensoul.org/2007/8/17/acts_as_ferret-will_paginate.