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aim_status_helper Plugin

Sep11

This plugin has been DEPRECATED. You can find the update here.

For a project I'm working on, I needed to display a user's AIM status. I thought it might be useful, so I extracted it to a plugin.

It's pretty simple to use, just pass in someone's AIM user name.

aim_status('maddox123456')

Optionally, you can toss in the text you want to display.

aim_status('maddox123456', :show_name => 'Jon Maddox')

UPDATE 9/21/06 I changed the ON url so it will work through a proxy like OFF url.

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Looks great. Will be giving it a whirl. Does it do any caching of statuses?

z@wzph.com - September 11th, 2006 at 4:55 pm
No. I didn't really think about caching. Because if it gets cached and the user goes off line, that status is incorrect.

Jon Maddox - September 11th, 2006 at 4:55 pm
Hi Jon -

I'd highly recommend you escape the ampersand in the URLS generated by aim_status_helper - this allows documents that use this status helper to validate under the W3C Markup Validator.

in lib/aim_status_helper.rb, change line 13 to:
" $\"aim$ #{show_name}"

Thanks for this awesome plugin!

Ardek - September 11th, 2006 at 4:55 pm
awesome plugin,

but if I leave the call to h in, then I get fully escaped output, ie

"<span class="aim_status"...."

I am calling aim_status from a view via a helper

I had to remove the h to get it to work. Is this a security risk somehow?

Matt - September 11th, 2006 at 4:55 pm