When setting up this blog, which is powered by WordPress, I knew that there were going to be a lot of posts about code. In order to make the code readable, I wanted to implement some sort of syntax highlighting. I eventually came across a great plugin called Simple Syntax, which is powered by the GeSHi highlighter engine. However, it needed a few modifications before it did exactly what I wanted it to do.

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User registration is function that is more or less common to all web applications. If your app has users, there has to be a way for them to register, right? Sometimes you want to add the extra step of confirming the user’s email address, to ensure that they have entered a valid address which they have access to. Here’s a way to handle user registration in Ruby on Rails that’s secure, robust, and handles email validation.

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