The foundation of every great open source project is its community. The MooTools Team creates the base framework code but it’s all of you that take the framework and build outstanding plugins. Here are some great plugins and tutorials that have been released recently.

MooTools Driver for Rails 3 Helpers

Rails 3 has been recently been released with the new capability to create your own javascript helpers; no longer will you need to use PrototypeJS. Kevin Valdek has created a MooTools helper so that you can use your favorite javascript framework with your chosen Ruby application. Kevin mentioned that his release isn't complete at this point so feel free to contribute! Great work Kevin!

http://kevinvaldek.com/mootools-driver-for-rails-3-helpers

Moodit

MooTools now has its own Reddit topic. Be sure to share your favorite MooTools posts with all of your friends via Reddit!

http://www.reddit.com/r/mootools/

Moodoco

Moodoco is a purely web-based client-side MooTools documentation generator with HTML5 offline capabilities created by Lim Chee Aun. It uses the GitHub API to fetch all the Markdown documentation files from the repository and stores them offline in localStorage.

http://github.com/cheeaun/moodoco

MultiSelect

MultiSelect is a MooTools plugin from Blaž Maležič that turns your checkbox set into one single multi-select dropdown menu. This highly inventive plugin is a great way to make your select boxes much more appealing.

/forge/p/mutiselect

Mif.Tree

Mif.Tree is a flexible tree-generation plugin that loads trees of information from javascript objects. You could, for example, output a JSON representation of a directory and view your server via HTML/javascript trees.

/forge/p/mif_tree

Featured Blog: Ryan Florence

Ryan Florence's blog has been doing an outstanding job of explaining complex MooTools concepts. Be sure to check out his blog!

http://ryanflorence.com/

Keep Up the Good Work!

These are just a few of the great MooTools plugins floating around the MooTools community recently. Keep up the good work and we look forward to featuring your plugins in future posts!

UPDATE: 1.2.4.4 is also released; there was a new bug in Tips introduced in 1.2.4.3 that was immediately patched.

This is mostly a bug fix release.

• Nearly 50 bug fixes (see the milestone for 1.2.4.3 in Lighthouse).
• Keyboard:
  • Added some support for just pressing 'shift', 'control', or 'alt'
  • Added a bunch of keycodes for Mac compatibility
• Keyboard.Extras:
  • Support for "shortcuts" which are keyboard entries that have names and descriptions.
  • Also provides methods for listing all the active shortcuts as well as allowing a shortcut to be rebound (for instance, if you were to allow the user to choose a key for a shortcut).
  • Added a change event to Keyboard.manager whenever any keyboard is activated.
• Tips:
  • NEW Tips option "windowPadding" allows you to reduce or expand the virtual size of the window for tip positioning. Defaults to {x:0, y:0}. You can use that is a workaround for the scrollbars not being considered when calculating tip positions.
• HtmlTable:
  • fixed numerous bugs filed in Lighthouse
  • HtmlTable can no longer apply it's click behavior more than once.
  • HtmlTable now pushes headers defined in the options.
  • Reworked HtmlTable's DOM a bit to allow for positioning of the sort icon
  • Added new set method for headers and footers.
  • Fixed error in HtmlTable.Parsers when sorting by date. format('db') was being applied to the text and not the date object.
• Array:
  • Added Array.shuffle
• Request.JSONP:
  • Made JSONP pass all arguments, not just the first, to its complete/success methods; see this discussion on the google group.
• Fx.Slide:
  • Added an option to specify the wrapper element for Fx.Slide. Was already present in the docs but could not be passed as an option.
• Mask:
  • Added options for the IframeShim for Mask

Download it with the MooTools More builder.

As usual, if you find any issues, file a ticket at lighthouse. There are already tickets open for 1.2.4.4 that we are not including fixes for in this release. Look for a release for these things in the next few weeks.