I download a prerelease of the latest Engines earlier in the summer with piston. My tests were failing in strange and magical ways. I spent quite a bit of time trying different things, then finally resorted to a fresh Rails app that I slowly populated with relevant files. Quickly I discovered the problem was my Engines plugin. I really thought I had the full release, but clearly not.

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Usually I love mootools, really. Usually. I found CSS Guy’s form field hints posting inspiring, so I modified it to work with mootools. The result is something simple and easy.

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I find myself having to validate an email address in a couple of different models. I’ve had to refine the pattern a couple of times, but don’t always remember to do it in every place, which is silly anyway. Since I don’t feel the need to delve into a new validation, like a validates_email_address or whatever, the following lets me simply reuse an existing validation in multiple places.

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