Posts Tagged ‘Ruby on Rails’
Oct
19Review: Chat Widget for your Blog, Powered by Adobe Flex
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Posted: 19th October 2007
Tags: Flex, RIAs, Ruby on Rails
Posted in Flex
Comments: 2 Comments »
Following my previous article I discovered Chatopica an excellent chat widget, you can integrate directly into your blog. Current topics are related to programming and design but custom topics are coming soon.
Chatopica is created by Tom Bray and Robert Cadena of SearchCoders, Tom being the presenter of the excellent eSeminar on an Easy MVC approach to developing flex apps, I blogged about.
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Oct
17Apple Leopard to be released 26th October
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Posted: 17th October 2007
Tags: apple, OS X, Ruby on Rails
Posted in Misc.., Ruby on Rails
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For all you Apple Mac fans out there, Mac OS X 10.5\’92s release has been announced for the 26th October 2007 (As promised).
I have already pre-ordered my copy and looking forward to the 300 new features.
In particular:
Ruby on Rails - “Work in a developer’s dreamland. Leopard is the perfect platform for Ruby on Rails development, with Rails, Mongrel, and Capistrano built in”
For more information, scoot over to Apple’s Website
Oct
10Creating a Mephisto Theme using Liquid
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Posted: 10th October 2007
Tags: mephisto, Ruby on Rails, tutorial, UI Design, Web Design
Posted in Ruby on Rails
Comments: 11 Comments »
Mephisto is an excellent blogging platform written in Ruby on Rails by Rick Olsen and Justin Palmer both of whom are behind the excellent Lighthouse Issue Tracking Software . This article / tutorial takes you step by step through the process of creating a custom theme / templates.
To an extent I am going to assume you are already familiar with Ruby and the Rails Web Development Framework, but where possible I hope to keep things as simple as possible.
First of all one of the best ways to go about learning how to create a custom template / theme is to download one of the existing themes you like from the Mephisto Themes Gallery and look inside the .zip file and see how these template authors have gone about implementing their themes.
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Oct
7Tip: Running command line / shell commands in Ruby using %x
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Posted: 7th October 2007
Tags: Ruby on Rails, tips
Posted in Ruby on Rails
Comments: 3 Comments »
I thought I would post a very quick tip on how to execute a command line / shell command with Ruby. There are several ways to run command lines / shell commands in Ruby as discussed by Jay Fields however by far the most useful of these is the %x command, as follows:
- @whois = %x[whois clockobj.co.uk]
And what is important and not mentioned by Jay is the fact that you can pass parameters into %x[] as follows:
- dom = ‘clockobj.co.uk‘
- @whois = %x[whois #\{dom\}]
Sep
6Live Validation - Custom Validator
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Posted: 6th September 2007
Tags: AJAX, Javascript, Ruby on Rails, UI Design, Web Design
Posted in Javascript
Comments: 3 Comments »
Following my article earlier today on Live Validation, I have had a response from Alec regarding how to create a custom validator to use with his Live Validation framework.
Having asked if a custom Validator could be passed in the .Now() function Alec had the following to say:
In regards to passing a custom validation method into the .now method, it will not \’91create\’92 the validation method as such, but will accept one you have made, as long as your custom validation method takes a value as the first argument, and throws a Validate.Error exception when it fails (in order to pass on the failure message made easier by using Validate.fail), and true if it passes. For example:
- Validate.Example = function(value, paramsObj)\{
- // the following sets up default options and overides them with those passed in
- var params = Object.extend(\{
- failureMessage: “Default failre message goes in here!“
- \}, paramsObj || \{\});
- // here you would check the value you wish to validate (the one passed in), against some expected value
- // if it fails then use the Validate.fail method will throw an exception containing the failure message
- if(value != ‘My expected value‘) Validate.fail(params.failureMessage);
- // if the script reaches this far then no exception has been thrown, so the validation passed
- return true;
- \}
Alec clarified: “…if you take a look at some of the included validation methods they contain calls to some of the other ones internally, as they will throw exceptions and halt proceedings if they fail, so act in much the same way as the simple one we have above. Validate.Email is a simple example of this and can be easily adapted to make a reusable postcode format validation for instance.”
Following Alec’s example above, you can easily then use the validator using the following:
- Validate.now(Validate.Example(), value_to_validate, \{options\})
Using a custom validator opens up many possibilities such as making an AJAX call to the server to check the uniqueness of a username or password.
For more information:
Documentation for Validate.now()
Sep
6Live Validation - Cross Platform, Rails style validation on the client.
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Posted: 6th September 2007
Tags: Javascript, php, Ruby on Rails, UI Design, Web Design, web development
Posted in Javascript, Ruby on Rails, Usability
Comments: 1 Comment »
I came across a great new validation library the other day which I wanted to share with you all. Live Validation by Alec Hill is a cross-platform client-side JavaScript validation framework which provides real-time feedback to the user as they type.
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Sep
5Tktit.com - Running on Ruby on Rails
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Posted: 5th September 2007
Tags: AJAX, portfolio, Ruby on Rails
Posted in Ruby on Rails
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TktIt.com is a self service ticketing solution for the social networking generation. It allows bands, clubs, companies etc to sell tickets, places to any event or activity they may run, for example gigs, training events, sports activities, festivals, exhibitions etc. Tickets can be sold directly from the users websites and payment is made directly to PayPal, in addition users can track their ticket sales directly from TktIt.
This was my first full development outing into the realms of Ruby on Rails which has been an inspirational and educating experience and I will be posting several articles in the near future on some of the techniques I used such as using script.aculo.us to produce a similar color selector to the one I did in .Net/JQuery.
Sep
3Let the migration begin…
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Posted: 3rd September 2007
Tags: george, Javascript, jon, Ruby on Rails, UI Design, Web Design, web development
Posted in Misc..
Comments: 1 Comment »
With my new focus on Rails, I have decided to move my blog to the excellent Mephisto Blog, from now on I will also be focusing my articles a little more towards not only Ruby on Rails but also Web Development, Web Design, UI Design and Javascript.
I have also used this opportunity to streamline the design of the site, there were a few things that didn’t work quite as they should on the old site and will have been improved along with a revamp of the colour scheme.
As I write this www.miletbaker.com still points to the old blog until all the content has been migrated and I have configured Apache to relay requests to my old urls to their new location. Once this is complete that will also be migrated across.
Also look out for the Jive (Javascript Input Validation Engine) for Prototype which I am currently working on with George which will feature real time inline validation as well as validation calls via Ajax and a Rails plug in. Check out Live Validation.
