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Release of the Simple Tooltip Ruby Gem

07 March 2011

Craic has released software that provides Tooltip Help for Rails 3 Web Applications.

Most of the web application development at Craic Computing uses Ruby on Rails, one of the leading open source web application frameworks. In doing so we gain tremendous benefit from the work of many developers in the Rails community who contribute tools and libraries to the project.

So we are especially pleased to announce that we have contributed our first Ruby Gem to the project. Simple Tooltip is a package of software that makes it very easy to add so-called Tooltip Help to web pages in a Rails application. Within the Ruby and Rails community these packages are called 'gems'.

Simple Tooltip allows developers to add online help to their pages which can use the rich formatting features of HTML. Users will see small help icons on their pages and clicking on, or hovering above, these will bring up popup windows that contain the help content.

An important feature of Simple Tooltip is that any given help item can occur in more than one language and the software will show that which is most appropriate to the user.

To try out Simple Tooltip, go to the Demo Site and to learn more about the software go to the project page on GitHub and rubygems.org.