#As for sharing the code, honestly, there really isn't much to share.
#RoR makes things
#so simple, that almost everything becomes 1 or 2 lines of code, and
Ah, there's the catch. With ruby (on rails), who needs sharing? 
Something akin to, with ruby, who needs cut and paste?
#all of these
#code snippits are already available on the web. The one thing you'll
#likely want to
#have is the ability to mark favorites without forcing users to log
#in; for this use this
#pattern:
# http://www.ajaxpatterns.org/Lazy_Registration
thanks for the tip.
kind regards -botp