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Tuesday, 22 July 2008

Annotate Your ActiveRecord Models with Comments About Your Table Structure - Rails Plugin of the Week

Vancouver.rb Forum · Hello, I have kicked off a new Rails Plugin of the Week series with the annotate-models gem. What's annotate-models? The annotate-models gem lets you annotate your ActiveRecord models with a comment block listing all the records' fields and data types pulled from the database table schema in the ... Read More »

Tuesday, 22 July 2008

Annotate Your ActiveRecord Models with Comments About Your Table Structure - Rails Plugin of the Week

Gerald Bauer · Welcome to the new Rails Plugin of the Week series highlighting a different Rails plugin (or gem) each week. Let’s kick off the series with the annotate-models gem. What’s annotate-models? The annotate-models gem lets you annotate your ActiveRecord models with a comment block listing all the records’ fields and data types pulled from the database table schema in the Ruby source code. Let’s ... Read More »

Monday, 21 July 2008

Reminder: Open Ruby Hack Night #7 - Monday 7pm - Whenever (9ish) @ Waves Coffee

Vancouver.rb Forum · Hello, Just a reminder that you're invited to drop by for the weekly Vancouver Open Ruby Hack Night at Waves Coffee (offering free wireless) in downtown Vancouver at the Hastings and Richards corner one block from the Harbour Centre. If you plan to drop by and you're new I invite you to send a posting ... Read More »

Tuesday, 15 July 2008

script/Console bug

Vancouver.rb Forum · I have created a new rails app using RAILS _V1.1.6_ APP_NAME but when I type "script/console" onto the command line I get the following error message: ./script/../config/boot.rb:28: undefined method `require_gem' for main:Object (NoMethodError) from script/console:2:in `require' from script/console:2 ... Read More »

Tuesday, 15 July 2008

Reading Web Feeds (RSS, Atom) in Ruby - Pros and Cons of Web Feed Libraries

Vancouver.rb Forum · Hello, I've published a mini tutorial on how to read web feeds (RSS, Atom) using the standard Ruby library. Full article @ [link] I've also included a list of alternative libraries to read web feeds in Ruby. The lists includes: o Simple RSS ... Read More »

Tuesday, 15 July 2008

How to read web feeds (RSS, Atom) using the standard Ruby library

Gerald Bauer · Ruby ships with a standard library that lets you read web feeds in the “classic” Really Simple Syndication (RSS) flavors (0.9x/1.0/2.0) and in the “modern” Atom Publishing format. Let’s try it all out pulling web feeds from the Vancouver.rb site. Task I: Reading Really Simple Syndication (RSS) Feeds Let’s read in a “classic” web feed in the Really Simple Syndication (RSS) format pul... Read More »

Monday, 14 July 2008

Hack Night- Newbie

Vancouver.rb Forum · Just wanted to say hello to everyone in Vanrb, and I hope to meet some of you at Waves Coffee tonight for the hack session. My Rails skills are at the hello world level presently, so I plan to do lots of listening. The group hacking idea sounds intriguing, so I will look forward to seeing how it works. Cheers, ... Read More »

Sunday, 13 July 2008

How to use Google's SMTP server and Gmail to send emails with Ruby

Vancouver.rb Forum · Hello, The last email was sent using a Ruby script [1]. If you're interested I've published an article titled "How to use Google's SMTP server and Gmail to send emails with Ruby" that walk you through the three easy steps. More @ [link] Questions and comments welcome. Cheers. ... Read More »

Sunday, 13 July 2008

How to use Google’s SMTP server and Gmail to send emails with Ruby

Gerald Bauer · Let’s send an email using Google’s Gmail server in three easy steps (works for Google Apps for your Domain hosted accounts too!). Step 1: Create a Mailer class Step 2: Setup the Google (Gmail) SMTP server for ActionMailer Step 3: Deliver the email message The ActionMailer gem shipping with Ruby on Rails (but also working as a free-standing library without Rails as used in this how-to) lets yo... Read More »

Sunday, 13 July 2008

Reminder: Open Ruby Hack Night #6 - Monday 7pm - Whenever (9ish) @ Waves Coffee

Monday, 07 July 2008

Reminder: Open Ruby Hack Night #5 - Today 7pm - Whenever (9ish) @ Waves Coffee

Thursday, 03 July 2008

Slide Show (S9) Gem Now Includes S5 Support (Including Built-In Gradient Themes)

Vancouver.rb Forum · Hello, The Ruby Slide Show (S9) gem that lets you create slide shows and author slides in plain text using a wiki-style markup language that's easy-to-write and easy-to-read now includes (experimental) support for S5 slide shows. To create a S5 slide show instead of a FullerScreen slide show just ... Read More »

Monday, 30 June 2008

Learning Ruby on Rails with Heroku Episode 1

Matthew Carriere · Ever since I saw Heroku I wanted to use it for a screencast on learning Ruby on Rails. This weekend I finished the very first episode! This episode is fairly light on Ruby on Rails content because I was so focused on screencasting and learning all about video and audio production for the web. So take a look and tell me what you think. I used Vimeo for hosting the video. I also produced the video i... Read More »

Monday, 30 June 2008

Reminder: Open Ruby Hack Night #4 - Today 7pm - Whenever (9ish) @ Waves Coffee

Tuesday, 24 June 2008

Prototype and jQuery - Going from one to the other - Adapted S9 Version Now Live

Vancouver.rb Forum · Hello, Thanks to everybody who dropped by for the Vancouver Open Ruby Hack Night #3 at Waves Coffee. This week I've adapted Remy Sharp's original PDF slide deck titled "Prototype and jQuery - Going from one to the other" and published a web version using the slideshow (S9) gem online @ [link] Enjoy. ... Read More »

Monday, 23 June 2008

Reminder: Open Ruby Hack Night #3 - Today 7pm - Whenever (9ish) @ Waves Coffee

Vancouver.rb Forum · Hello, Just a reminder that you're invited to drop by for the weekly Vancouver Open Ruby Hack Night at Waves Coffee in downtown Vancouver at the Hastings and Richards corner (offering free wireless) one block from the Harbour Centre. More info @ [link] ... Read More »

Tuesday, 17 June 2008

merb – The Pocket Rocket Framework by Rowan Hick - Adapted S9 Version Now Live

Vancouver.rb Forum · Hello, Thanks to everybody who dropped by for the Vancouver Open Ruby Hack Night #2 at Waves Coffee. I've adapted Rowan Hick's original PDF slide deck for the talk titled "merb – The Pocket Rocket Framework" from last week's Toronto Rails Night and published a web version using the slideshow (S9) gem ... Read More »

Monday, 16 June 2008