Posted by Daniel Butler
Sat, 06 May 2006 15:10:00 GMT
Jens-Christian Fischer has provided an excellent 24-page "short reference" for Ruby on Rails, released as a PDF, HTML, and Markdown under a Creative Commons licence. He writes, "It's a collection of the most used calls,
methods, functions across a wide range of Rails functionality. ... It's a bit rough around some of it's edges, and I realize, that there still is much left to be done, but it has served me well already in my daily Rails work, and in
getting my students up to speed."
Jens' Blog Entry
PDF Version
HTML Version
Subversion Repository
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Posted by Daniel Butler
Thu, 04 May 2006 11:32:00 GMT
Gael Pourriel posted the following Ajax spinners with transparent, neutral color backgrounds to the Rails mailing list. Thank you, Gael; these are exactly what I needed.
Mac Spinner → 
Moz Spinner → 
It looks like you have to wait just a bit faster with the Mac spinner than with the Moz spinner. Right click each image above and select 'Save As' to have them for your very own web dynamo.
Update: Create your own custom spinners with whatever backgrounds you need at ajaxload.info.
Update 2: Here's another eyeful of various AJAX Activity Indicators, a veritable hamster dance of wait-for-it-ness. My favorite:
Moz Orange → 
Posted in Open Source | Tags ajax, spinner | 10 comments
Posted by Daniel Butler
Wed, 03 May 2006 13:41:00 GMT
David A. Black is releasing a new book entitled Ruby for Rails: Ruby Techniques for Rails Developers, which will help you take your Ruby skills to the next level of zen while working within the Rails framework. He writes, "Ruby for Rails helps Rails developers achieve Ruby mastery. Each chapter deepens your Ruby knowledge and shows you how it connects to Rails. You’ll gain confidence working with objects and classes and learn how to leverage Ruby’s elegant, expressive syntax for Rails application power. And you'll become a better Rails developer through a deep understanding of the design of Rails itself and how to take advantage of it."
Read on for a short review.
Book Home Page at Manning Publications
Order Book from Amazon.com
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Posted in Ruby on Rails | Tags book, rails, ruby | 3 comments
Posted by Daniel Butler
Tue, 02 May 2006 17:23:00 GMT
RadiantCMS Page Management Interface
John W. Long at Wiseheart Design
has announced a new content management system written in Ruby on Rails. Radiant CMS is a "no-fluff, open source content management system designed
for small teams. It is similar to Textpattern or MovableType, but is a
general purpose content management system (not a blogging engine)." Notable features include:
- An elegant user interface
- Flexible templating with layouts, snippets, page parts, and a custom tagging language (Radius)
- Development and Production modes, depending on URL used to access the application
- Extensible with special page-oriented plugins called behaviors
- Support for Markdown and Textile as well as traditional HTML, with support for other filters
- A Simple user management/rights system
John also writes that Radiant CMS will be used to power ruby-lang.org when it has been adequately tested.
Radiant CMS Home Page
Radiant CMS Trac
RadiantC MS Public Demo
Posted in Open Source, Ruby on Rails | Tags cms | no comments
Posted by Daniel Butler
Tue, 25 Apr 2006 11:37:00 GMT
Jeremy McAnally has a new Ruby on Rails book in the works, joining the minions about to be released. Entitled Mr. Neighborly's Relevant Ramblings, Pointed Pontifications, and Thought Theories on Ruby & Rails, the
self-published book will be based on Rails 1.1 and Ruby 1.8.4. The first chapter, a 60-page Rails tutorial is available for free on the web.
The tutorial serves as a thorough introduction to Ruby syntax, classes, methods, modules, and things like regular expressions, spelled out clearly with a rich sauce of examples. So, if you found Why's (Poignant) Guide to Ruby just too "entertaining" a way to learn Ruby, or you don't won't your boss to think you're having too much fun on the job, give this one a try.
Mr. Neighborly Rails Book Site
Posted in Ruby on Rails, Programming | 1 comment
Posted by Daniel Butler
Sat, 22 Apr 2006 13:50:00 GMT
Manuel Holtgrewe with turingstudio.com has released ActiveRBAC 0.3.1, which now works with Rails 1.1. He writes, "ActiveRBAC is a Ruby on Rails library that provides a full stack RBAC (Role Based Authorization) system with user, group, role and permission management. It provides [views,] models and controllers to edit those models."
Read more...
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Posted by Daniel Butler
Fri, 21 Apr 2006 16:11:00 GMT
Rethinking CS101 is a project to develop a curriculum for the first course in computer science based around the idea of computation as interaction.
Perhaps the most fundamental idea in modern computer science is that of interactive processes. Computation is embedded in a (physical or virtual) world; its role is to interact with that world to produce desired behavior. While von Neumann serial programming is based on the idea that "computation as calculation" uses inputs at the beginning to produce outputs at the end. "Computation as interaction" treats inputs as things that are monitored and outputs as actions that are taken over the lifetime of an ongoing process. By beginning with a decomposition in terms of interacting computational processes, we can teach our students a model of the world much closer to the one that underlies the thinking of most computer professionals.
Rethinking CS101
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Eastern Painted Turtle, Santa Fe River Rise, High Springs, Florida (March 2002)
