Archive of 2009 August

How to disable modules in Magento

Posted on Aug 26 in Magento | (7) Comments

Magento has a huge number of features and there are probably few businesses that will need to use all of them. If you want to disable some features completely for your site (such as the newsletter, or the tag cloud), you can do this easily through the administration options. System > Configuration > Advanced > [...]

Magento has a huge number of features and there are probably few businesses that will need to use all of them. If you want to disable some features completely for your site (such as the newsletter, or the tag cloud), you can do this easily through the administration options.

System > Configuration > Advanced > Disable module output

Find the module that you want to disable and select ‘Disable’ from the drop-down box. For example, if you want to disable the newsletter feature the config will look as follows.

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How to set up tax rules for sales within Canada in Magento

Posted on Aug 17 in General, Magento, Tutorials | (26) Comments

Objective: Set up the taxation system for Magento for sales within different provinces of Canada. Entering the Tax Rates for Retail Sales in Canada The tax rates used in this example are listed below. DISCLAIMER: the rates and tax rules may not be correct or up to date and are listed here to demonstrate how [...]

Objective: Set up the taxation system for Magento for sales within different provinces of Canada.

Entering the Tax Rates for Retail Sales in Canada

The tax rates used in this example are listed below. DISCLAIMER: the rates and tax rules may not be correct or up to date and are listed here to demonstrate how different rates can be implemented in Magento. Do not use these rates without verifying with the proper authorities that they are correct.

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jQuery Validation in Ruby on Rails

Posted on Aug 17 in jQuery, Ruby on Rails, Tutorials | (40) Comments

This post shows how you can use the jQuery Validation plugin to validate RESTful rails forms and how to use the remote method for powerful AJAX-backed validation.

In this post you will see how to do client side validation with jQuery in a Ruby on Rails application. The post assumes you have some knowledge of Ruby on Rails views and jQuery selectors.

We will validate a typical user registration form using the jQuery Validation plugin.

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