From peter at oaktop.com Sun Jul 1 23:36:01 2007 From: peter at oaktop.com (Peter K Chan) Date: Sun, 1 Jul 2007 23:36:01 -0400 Subject: [Chirb] One more lightning talk for tomorrow Message-ID: Hi All, I was just reviewing my two lightning talks (JRuby and MAD) for tomorrow's Chirb meeting, when I realized that there is another component of my project that I can talk about: AppFlow, which is a parallel processing framework for doing multithreaded processing. If there is room and interest tomorrow, I would like to add that in as well. Peter From rkannegiesser at yahoo.com Tue Jul 3 10:17:36 2007 From: rkannegiesser at yahoo.com (Ryan Kannegiesser) Date: Tue, 3 Jul 2007 07:17:36 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Chirb] thanks Message-ID: <224272.18651.qm@web52009.mail.re2.yahoo.com> Josh, Peter, Thanks for your presentations at the Chirb meeting last night. I wanted to introduce myself, but had to catch my train before Peter was done. I just joined the group last month, and this was my first meeting. Maybe you could do new member introductions at a future meeting. A little about me...I've been a professional developer for 10 years, and have most of this time doing Java web development. Currently I'm working on a .NET rich client application. Ruby hasn't made its way into my company yet, but I'm learning Ruby and Rails on my own, and loving the beauty of Ruby code. I joined the group to meet and learn from other Ruby developers. I'd like to get involved in a project eventually. Looking forward to future meetings. Also, thanks to ThoughtWorks for the pizza. Ryan Kannegiesser --------------------------------- Never miss an email again! Yahoo! Toolbar alerts you the instant new Mail arrives. Check it out. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://rubyforge.org/pipermail/chicagogroup-members-list/attachments/20070703/743a263f/attachment.html From jcroneme at thoughtworks.com Tue Jul 3 10:51:55 2007 From: jcroneme at thoughtworks.com (Josh Cronemeyer) Date: Tue, 3 Jul 2007 09:51:55 -0500 Subject: [Chirb] thanks In-Reply-To: <224272.18651.qm@web52009.mail.re2.yahoo.com> Message-ID: Ryan, Thanks for coming and welcome to the group. Feel free to speak up at the next meeting and kick off some introductions. I don't know about you guys, but I really struggle to learn names so I wouldn't mind a refresher course. Josh Cronemeyer chicagogroup-members-list-bounces at rubyforge.org wrote on 07/03/2007 09:17:36 AM: > Josh, Peter, > > Thanks for your presentations at the Chirb meeting last night. I > wanted to introduce myself, but had to catch my train before Peter was > done. I just joined the group last month, and this was my first > meeting. Maybe you could do new member introductions at a future meeting. > > A little about me...I've been a professional developer for 10 years, > and have most of this time doing Java web development. Currently I'm > working on a .NET rich client application. Ruby hasn't made its way > into my company yet, but I'm learning Ruby and Rails on my own, and > loving the beauty of Ruby code. I joined the group to meet and learn > from other Ruby developers. I'd like to get involved in a project > eventually. Looking forward to future meetings. > > Also, thanks to ThoughtWorks for the pizza. > > Ryan Kannegiesser > Never miss an email again! > Yahoo! Toolbar alerts you the instant new Mail arrives. Check it out. > _______________________________________________ > ChicagoGroup-Members-List at rubyforge.org > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/chicagogroup-members-list -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://rubyforge.org/pipermail/chicagogroup-members-list/attachments/20070703/cbfba048/attachment.html From jcroneme at thoughtworks.com Tue Jul 3 10:59:45 2007 From: jcroneme at thoughtworks.com (Josh Cronemeyer) Date: Tue, 3 Jul 2007 09:59:45 -0500 Subject: [Chirb] August meeting and why you should be the next chirb presenter! Message-ID: Chirbers, I'm wondering if anyone has anything they would like to talk about for the August meeting. Peter and I were talking about the importance of the user group as a forum for sharing projects and ideas both big and small. I think it is worth mentioning that presentations need not be more than a quick outline. Throwing something out there can be good incentive for learning about technology X. Don't feel like you need to be an expert on the topic you are presenting, a good approach is to be more of a discussion facilitator. Do your research, write up some points to discuss, questions to ask. I for one would like to hear presentations by people who don't generally speak up, even if it as simple as I use ruby for X. Ideas? Comments? Josh Cronemeyer -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://rubyforge.org/pipermail/chicagogroup-members-list/attachments/20070703/3a496fb4/attachment.html From trevorturk at yahoo.com Tue Jul 3 11:21:31 2007 From: trevorturk at yahoo.com (Trevor Turk) Date: Tue, 3 Jul 2007 10:21:31 -0500 Subject: [Chirb] August meeting and why you should be the next chirb presenter! In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: I've been busy trying to "finish" my learning project, which is a Rails forum app. I'd be happy to show it to the group. It's not totally done, but what project is? http://eldorado.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ Peter took a look at the code and helped me out in a couple of places, and I could certainly use some help with some problems I've had with testing. So, I could demo the app and talk a little bit about it, where it came from, etc. It's nothing too special - just another REST app, but I think it's pretty good at what it does. Also, if anybody would be interested, I wouldn't mind trying to get some help from the group fleshing out some test stubs I have, where I can't figure out how to get the tests to work, even though the behavior is fine in the app. For example: http://eldorado.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/test/functional/topics_controller_test.rb Check out the bottom of that file, where there are some tests that are just stubs, and some that are commented out because I can't get things to work right :( Also, I need to implement user-specific timezones. I'm going to look into how Uger does things (thanks, Peter!), but maybe that would be interesting for people (like me) who have never done that do see some best practices in action. I'm fighting with DST now, too, but I'm hoping that this tzinfo gem might help me out. I just added "remember me" stuff and a plugin to time sessions out, which is providing the "what's new since my last visit" functionality for me - and that might be interesting to show off. I'm not sure if I'm going about things the right way there, so some input from some smart people would be nice. Oh, and I was thinking of making an alternate view helper for the will_paginate plugin. I want to have something like this: << [Page 1] >> Where the "1" part is a drop-down list of pages. The idea being that the regular will_paginate helper takes up a lot of horizontal space, which doesn't work in certain places in my app. That might be useful for other people, so it could make a good plugin (for a plugin?). Maybe people would be interested in helping out with that. Let me know if anybody would be interested in this kind of stuff. I can just give a quick talk about my app, or if anybody is interested in the other stuff I mentioned, that would be great, too. - Trevor On 7/3/07, Josh Cronemeyer wrote: > > Chirbers, > > I'm wondering if anyone has anything they would like to talk about for the > August meeting. Peter and I were talking about the importance of the user > group as a forum for sharing projects and ideas both big and small. I think > it is worth mentioning that presentations need not be more than a quick > outline. Throwing something out there can be good incentive for learning > about technology X. Don't feel like you need to be an expert on the topic > you are presenting, a good approach is to be more of a discussion > facilitator. Do your research, write up some points to discuss, questions > to ask. I for one would like to hear presentations by people who don't > generally speak up, even if it as simple as I use ruby for X. Ideas? > Comments? > > Josh Cronemeyer > _______________________________________________ > ChicagoGroup-Members-List at rubyforge.org > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/chicagogroup-members-list > From jcroneme at thoughtworks.com Tue Jul 3 11:56:02 2007 From: jcroneme at thoughtworks.com (Josh Cronemeyer) Date: Tue, 3 Jul 2007 10:56:02 -0500 Subject: [Chirb] August meeting and why you should be the next chirb presenter! In-Reply-To: Message-ID: I'm interested. Josh Cronemeyer chicagogroup-members-list-bounces at rubyforge.org wrote on 07/03/2007 10:21:31 AM: > I've been busy trying to "finish" my learning project, which is a > Rails forum app. I'd be happy to show it to the group. It's not > totally done, but what project is? > > http://eldorado.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ > > Peter took a look at the code and helped me out in a couple of places, > and I could certainly use some help with some problems I've had with > testing. So, I could demo the app and talk a little bit about it, > where it came from, etc. It's nothing too special - just another REST > app, but I think it's pretty good at what it does. > > Also, if anybody would be interested, I wouldn't mind trying to get > some help from the group fleshing out some test stubs I have, where I > can't figure out how to get the tests to work, even though the > behavior is fine in the app. For example: > > http://eldorado.googlecode. > com/svn/trunk/test/functional/topics_controller_test.rb > > Check out the bottom of that file, where there are some tests that are > just stubs, and some that are commented out because I can't get things > to work right :( > > Also, I need to implement user-specific timezones. I'm going to look > into how Uger does things (thanks, Peter!), but maybe that would be > interesting for people (like me) who have never done that do see some > best practices in action. I'm fighting with DST now, too, but I'm > hoping that this tzinfo gem might help me out. > > I just added "remember me" stuff and a plugin to time sessions out, > which is providing the "what's new since my last visit" functionality > for me - and that might be interesting to show off. I'm not sure if > I'm going about things the right way there, so some input from some > smart people would be nice. > > Oh, and I was thinking of making an alternate view helper for the > will_paginate plugin. I want to have something like this: > > << [Page 1] >> > > Where the "1" part is a drop-down list of pages. The idea being that > the regular will_paginate helper takes up a lot of horizontal space, > which doesn't work in certain places in my app. That might be useful > for other people, so it could make a good plugin (for a plugin?). > Maybe people would be interested in helping out with that. > > Let me know if anybody would be interested in this kind of stuff. I > can just give a quick talk about my app, or if anybody is interested > in the other stuff I mentioned, that would be great, too. > > - Trevor > > On 7/3/07, Josh Cronemeyer wrote: > > > > Chirbers, > > > > I'm wondering if anyone has anything they would like to talk about for the > > August meeting. Peter and I were talking about the importance of the user > > group as a forum for sharing projects and ideas both big and small. I think > > it is worth mentioning that presentations need not be more than a quick > > outline. Throwing something out there can be good incentive for learning > > about technology X. Don't feel like you need to be an expert on the topic > > you are presenting, a good approach is to be more of a discussion > > facilitator. Do your research, write up some points to discuss, questions > > to ask. I for one would like to hear presentations by people who don't > > generally speak up, even if it as simple as I use ruby for X. Ideas? > > Comments? > > > > Josh Cronemeyer > > _______________________________________________ > > ChicagoGroup-Members-List at rubyforge.org > > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/chicagogroup-members-list > > > _______________________________________________ > ChicagoGroup-Members-List at rubyforge.org > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/chicagogroup-members-list -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://rubyforge.org/pipermail/chicagogroup-members-list/attachments/20070703/e2efacf5/attachment-0001.html From ryan at platte.name Tue Jul 3 12:17:48 2007 From: ryan at platte.name (Ryan Platte) Date: Tue, 3 Jul 2007 11:17:48 -0500 Subject: [Chirb] August meeting and why you should be the next chirb presenter! In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <2f1a1dcb0707030917l7794f006l545118b582dc0ca1@mail.gmail.com> Just an FYI since this was brought up: that's very intentional on the part of the will_paginate designers -- Google bots will scan more of the site if the pagination exposes links to several pages at once instead of revealing only one at a time. That was actually part of the impetus for will_paginate. http://www.pjhyett.com/posts/222-why-seo-is-important On 7/3/07, Trevor Turk wrote: > > > Oh, and I was thinking of making an alternate view helper for the > will_paginate plugin. I want to have something like this: > > << [Page 1] >> > > Where the "1" part is a drop-down list of pages. The idea being that > the regular will_paginate helper takes up a lot of horizontal space, > which doesn't work in certain places in my app. That might be useful > for other people, so it could make a good plugin (for a plugin?). > Maybe people would be interested in helping out with that. > -- Ryan Platte -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://rubyforge.org/pipermail/chicagogroup-members-list/attachments/20070703/1f7a83c2/attachment.html From trevorturk at yahoo.com Tue Jul 3 12:32:10 2007 From: trevorturk at yahoo.com (Trevor Turk) Date: Tue, 3 Jul 2007 11:32:10 -0500 Subject: [Chirb] August meeting and why you should be the next chirb presenter! In-Reply-To: <2f1a1dcb0707030917l7794f006l545118b582dc0ca1@mail.gmail.com> References: <2f1a1dcb0707030917l7794f006l545118b582dc0ca1@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: Yeah, I actually happened to read that. I dig it, but there are some places where you need to fit the pagination links in a smaller spot, even at the cost of SEO. In my case, I want to paginate "posts" in a "topic" - a thread. I want to fit the pagination links above and below the threads, and I'm running low on space: http://newathens.org:8000/topics/1483 I haven't looked into the will_paginate plugin yet, so maybe there's already something in there to help with this - I just assumed there wasn't since I haven't heard anything about it. - Trevor On 7/3/07, Ryan Platte wrote: > > Just an FYI since this was brought up: that's very intentional on the part > of the will_paginate designers -- Google bots will scan more of the site if > the pagination exposes links to several pages at once instead of revealing > only one at a time. That was actually part of the impetus for will_paginate. > > http://www.pjhyett.com/posts/222-why-seo-is-important > From peter at oaktop.com Tue Jul 3 13:34:59 2007 From: peter at oaktop.com (Peter K Chan) Date: Tue, 3 Jul 2007 13:34:59 -0400 Subject: [Chirb] thanks In-Reply-To: References: <224272.18651.qm@web52009.mail.re2.yahoo.com> Message-ID: Perhaps we can reserve the initial 15 - 20 minutes of every meeting for pizza and social networking time? It will give late people, like myself, some buffer time, and we can do new member introduction or just general talking amongst ourselves. Peter From: chicagogroup-members-list-bounces at rubyforge.org [mailto:chicagogroup-members-list-bounces at rubyforge.org] On Behalf Of Josh Cronemeyer Sent: Tuesday, July 03, 2007 9:52 AM To: Chirb discussion list Subject: Re: [Chirb] thanks Ryan, Thanks for coming and welcome to the group. ?Feel free to speak up at the next meeting and kick off some introductions. ?I don't know about you guys, but I really struggle to learn names so I wouldn't mind a refresher course. Josh Cronemeyer chicagogroup-members-list-bounces at rubyforge.org wrote on 07/03/2007 09:17:36 AM: > Josh, Peter, > > Thanks for your presentations at the Chirb meeting last night. I > wanted to introduce myself, but had to catch my train before Peter was > done. I just joined the group last month, and this was my first > meeting. Maybe you could do new member introductions at a future meeting. > > A little about me...I've been a professional developer for 10 years, > and have most of this time doing Java web development. Currently I'm > working on a .NET rich client application. Ruby hasn't made its way > into my company yet, but I'm learning Ruby and Rails on my own, and > loving the beauty of Ruby code. I joined the group to meet and learn > from other Ruby developers. I'd like to get involved in a project > eventually. Looking forward to future meetings. > > Also, thanks to ThoughtWorks for the pizza. > > Ryan Kannegiesser > ?Never miss an email again! > Yahoo! Toolbar alerts you the instant new Mail arrives. Check it out. > _______________________________________________ > ChicagoGroup-Members-List at rubyforge.org > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/chicagogroup-members-list From jcroneme at thoughtworks.com Tue Jul 3 13:42:52 2007 From: jcroneme at thoughtworks.com (Josh Cronemeyer) Date: Tue, 3 Jul 2007 12:42:52 -0500 Subject: [Chirb] thanks In-Reply-To: Message-ID: We pretty much do that already... I don't want to give people an excuse to get there any later than they already do. I don't get home until late as it is. My vote is to keep things as they are. The doors open at 6pm and that is when pizza arrives so if you want to squeeze in some socialy social time just come earlier :) Josh Cronemeyer chicagogroup-members-list-bounces at rubyforge.org wrote on 07/03/2007 12:34:59 PM: > Perhaps we can reserve the initial 15 - 20 minutes of every meeting > for pizza and social networking time? It will give late people, like > myself, some buffer time, and we can do new member introduction or > just general talking amongst ourselves. > > Peter > > From: chicagogroup-members-list-bounces at rubyforge.org [mailto: > chicagogroup-members-list-bounces at rubyforge.org] On Behalf Of Josh Cronemeyer > Sent: Tuesday, July 03, 2007 9:52 AM > To: Chirb discussion list > Subject: Re: [Chirb] thanks > > > Ryan, > > Thanks for coming and welcome to the group. Feel free to speak up at > the next meeting and kick off some introductions. I don't know about > you guys, but I really struggle to learn names so I wouldn't mind a > refresher course. > > Josh Cronemeyer > > chicagogroup-members-list-bounces at rubyforge.org wrote on 07/03/2007 09:17:36 AM: > > > Josh, Peter, > > > > Thanks for your presentations at the Chirb meeting last night. I > > wanted to introduce myself, but had to catch my train before Peter was > > done. I just joined the group last month, and this was my first > > meeting. Maybe you could do new member introductions at a future meeting. > > > > A little about me...I've been a professional developer for 10 years, > > and have most of this time doing Java web development. Currently I'm > > working on a .NET rich client application. Ruby hasn't made its way > > into my company yet, but I'm learning Ruby and Rails on my own, and > > loving the beauty of Ruby code. I joined the group to meet and learn > > from other Ruby developers. I'd like to get involved in a project > > eventually. Looking forward to future meetings. > > > > Also, thanks to ThoughtWorks for the pizza. > > > > Ryan Kannegiesser > > Never miss an email again! > > Yahoo! Toolbar alerts you the instant new Mail arrives. Check it out. > > _______________________________________________ > > ChicagoGroup-Members-List at rubyforge.org > > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/chicagogroup-members-list > _______________________________________________ > ChicagoGroup-Members-List at rubyforge.org > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/chicagogroup-members-list -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://rubyforge.org/pipermail/chicagogroup-members-list/attachments/20070703/36054652/attachment.html From peter at oaktop.com Tue Jul 3 13:31:43 2007 From: peter at oaktop.com (Peter K Chan) Date: Tue, 3 Jul 2007 13:31:43 -0400 Subject: [Chirb] August meeting and why you should be the next chirbpresenter! In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: To echo what Josh was saying: I think it would be great if people can speak up about what they use Ruby for their work or fun. Trevor: Uger only does per-app timezone, not per-user. (I suggested per-user timezone for El Dorado since it seems more useful for a forum with geographically distributed memberbase). I think it would be great if you can do a quick demo on El Dorado for the group. Talks don't have to be rocket science. I don't go to meeting to learn things; I go to meeting to know people. To that end, I am interested in anything anyone is working on. Peter -----Original Message----- From: chicagogroup-members-list-bounces at rubyforge.org [mailto:chicagogroup-members-list-bounces at rubyforge.org] On Behalf Of Trevor Turk Sent: Tuesday, July 03, 2007 10:22 AM To: Chirb discussion list Subject: Re: [Chirb] August meeting and why you should be the next chirbpresenter! I've been busy trying to "finish" my learning project, which is a Rails forum app. I'd be happy to show it to the group. It's not totally done, but what project is? http://eldorado.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ Peter took a look at the code and helped me out in a couple of places, and I could certainly use some help with some problems I've had with testing. So, I could demo the app and talk a little bit about it, where it came from, etc. It's nothing too special - just another REST app, but I think it's pretty good at what it does. Also, if anybody would be interested, I wouldn't mind trying to get some help from the group fleshing out some test stubs I have, where I can't figure out how to get the tests to work, even though the behavior is fine in the app. For example: http://eldorado.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/test/functional/topics_controll er_test.rb Check out the bottom of that file, where there are some tests that are just stubs, and some that are commented out because I can't get things to work right :( Also, I need to implement user-specific timezones. I'm going to look into how Uger does things (thanks, Peter!), but maybe that would be interesting for people (like me) who have never done that do see some best practices in action. I'm fighting with DST now, too, but I'm hoping that this tzinfo gem might help me out. I just added "remember me" stuff and a plugin to time sessions out, which is providing the "what's new since my last visit" functionality for me - and that might be interesting to show off. I'm not sure if I'm going about things the right way there, so some input from some smart people would be nice. Oh, and I was thinking of making an alternate view helper for the will_paginate plugin. I want to have something like this: << [Page 1] >> Where the "1" part is a drop-down list of pages. The idea being that the regular will_paginate helper takes up a lot of horizontal space, which doesn't work in certain places in my app. That might be useful for other people, so it could make a good plugin (for a plugin?). Maybe people would be interested in helping out with that. Let me know if anybody would be interested in this kind of stuff. I can just give a quick talk about my app, or if anybody is interested in the other stuff I mentioned, that would be great, too. - Trevor On 7/3/07, Josh Cronemeyer wrote: > > Chirbers, > > I'm wondering if anyone has anything they would like to talk about for the > August meeting. Peter and I were talking about the importance of the user > group as a forum for sharing projects and ideas both big and small. I think > it is worth mentioning that presentations need not be more than a quick > outline. Throwing something out there can be good incentive for learning > about technology X. Don't feel like you need to be an expert on the topic > you are presenting, a good approach is to be more of a discussion > facilitator. Do your research, write up some points to discuss, questions > to ask. I for one would like to hear presentations by people who don't > generally speak up, even if it as simple as I use ruby for X. Ideas? > Comments? > > Josh Cronemeyer > _______________________________________________ > ChicagoGroup-Members-List at rubyforge.org > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/chicagogroup-members-list > _______________________________________________ ChicagoGroup-Members-List at rubyforge.org http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/chicagogroup-members-list From peter at oaktop.com Tue Jul 3 13:48:07 2007 From: peter at oaktop.com (Peter K Chan) Date: Tue, 3 Jul 2007 13:48:07 -0400 Subject: [Chirb] thanks In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Fine. Fine. I will heed the 6:30 time next time... :) Peter From: chicagogroup-members-list-bounces at rubyforge.org [mailto:chicagogroup-members-list-bounces at rubyforge.org] On Behalf Of Josh Cronemeyer Sent: Tuesday, July 03, 2007 12:43 PM To: Chirb discussion list Subject: Re: [Chirb] thanks We pretty much do that already... ?I don't want to give people an excuse to get there any later than they already do. ?I don't get home until late as it is. ?My vote is to keep things as they are. ?The doors open at 6pm and that is when pizza arrives so if you want to squeeze in some socialy social time just come earlier :) Josh Cronemeyer chicagogroup-members-list-bounces at rubyforge.org wrote on 07/03/2007 12:34:59 PM: > Perhaps we can reserve the initial 15 - 20 minutes of every meeting > for pizza and social networking time? It will give late people, like > myself, some buffer time, and we can do new member introduction or > just general talking amongst ourselves. > > Peter > > From: chicagogroup-members-list-bounces at rubyforge.org [mailto: > chicagogroup-members-list-bounces at rubyforge.org] On Behalf Of Josh Cronemeyer > Sent: Tuesday, July 03, 2007 9:52 AM > To: Chirb discussion list > Subject: Re: [Chirb] thanks > > > Ryan, > > Thanks for coming and welcome to the group. ?Feel free to speak up at > the next meeting and kick off some introductions. ?I don't know about > you guys, but I really struggle to learn names so I wouldn't mind a > refresher course. > > Josh Cronemeyer > > chicagogroup-members-list-bounces at rubyforge.org wrote on 07/03/2007 09:17:36 AM: > > > Josh, Peter, > > > > Thanks for your presentations at the Chirb meeting last night. I > > wanted to introduce myself, but had to catch my train before Peter was > > done. I just joined the group last month, and this was my first > > meeting. Maybe you could do new member introductions at a future meeting. > > > > A little about me...I've been a professional developer for 10 years, > > and have most of this time doing Java web development. Currently I'm > > working on a .NET rich client application. Ruby hasn't made its way > > into my company yet, but I'm learning Ruby and Rails on my own, and > > loving the beauty of Ruby code. I joined the group to meet and learn > > from other Ruby developers. I'd like to get involved in a project > > eventually. Looking forward to future meetings. > > > > Also, thanks to ThoughtWorks for the pizza. > > > > Ryan Kannegiesser > > ?Never miss an email again! > > Yahoo! Toolbar alerts you the instant new Mail arrives. Check it out. > > _______________________________________________ > > ChicagoGroup-Members-List at rubyforge.org > > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/chicagogroup-members-list > _______________________________________________ > ChicagoGroup-Members-List at rubyforge.org > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/chicagogroup-members-list From trevorturk at yahoo.com Tue Jul 3 14:12:16 2007 From: trevorturk at yahoo.com (Trevor Turk) Date: Tue, 3 Jul 2007 13:12:16 -0500 Subject: [Chirb] August meeting and why you should be the next chirbpresenter! In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: I see. I'm sure it'll still be instructive for me to see how Uger deals with timezones, even if it's not quite the same setup. I also wanted to add RSVPs to the event calendar I've got in my app, so I'm curious to see how you did your model for that. So, I'll plan on doing a little song and dance for the group, so you guys can see what I've been working on. I won't actually sing or dance, but maybe it'll be fun anyway :) - Trevor On 7/3/07, Peter K Chan wrote: > To echo what Josh was saying: I think it would be great if people can > speak up about what they use Ruby for their work or fun. > > Trevor: Uger only does per-app timezone, not per-user. (I suggested > per-user timezone for El Dorado since it seems more useful for a forum > with geographically distributed memberbase). > > I think it would be great if you can do a quick demo on El Dorado for > the group. Talks don't have to be rocket science. I don't go to meeting > to learn things; I go to meeting to know people. To that end, I am > interested in anything anyone is working on. > > Peter > > -----Original Message----- > From: chicagogroup-members-list-bounces at rubyforge.org > [mailto:chicagogroup-members-list-bounces at rubyforge.org] On Behalf Of > Trevor Turk > Sent: Tuesday, July 03, 2007 10:22 AM > To: Chirb discussion list > Subject: Re: [Chirb] August meeting and why you should be the next > chirbpresenter! > > I've been busy trying to "finish" my learning project, which is a > Rails forum app. I'd be happy to show it to the group. It's not > totally done, but what project is? > > http://eldorado.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ > > Peter took a look at the code and helped me out in a couple of places, > and I could certainly use some help with some problems I've had with > testing. So, I could demo the app and talk a little bit about it, > where it came from, etc. It's nothing too special - just another REST > app, but I think it's pretty good at what it does. > > Also, if anybody would be interested, I wouldn't mind trying to get > some help from the group fleshing out some test stubs I have, where I > can't figure out how to get the tests to work, even though the > behavior is fine in the app. For example: > > http://eldorado.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/test/functional/topics_controll > er_test.rb > > Check out the bottom of that file, where there are some tests that are > just stubs, and some that are commented out because I can't get things > to work right :( > > Also, I need to implement user-specific timezones. I'm going to look > into how Uger does things (thanks, Peter!), but maybe that would be > interesting for people (like me) who have never done that do see some > best practices in action. I'm fighting with DST now, too, but I'm > hoping that this tzinfo gem might help me out. > > I just added "remember me" stuff and a plugin to time sessions out, > which is providing the "what's new since my last visit" functionality > for me - and that might be interesting to show off. I'm not sure if > I'm going about things the right way there, so some input from some > smart people would be nice. > > Oh, and I was thinking of making an alternate view helper for the > will_paginate plugin. I want to have something like this: > > << [Page 1] >> > > Where the "1" part is a drop-down list of pages. The idea being that > the regular will_paginate helper takes up a lot of horizontal space, > which doesn't work in certain places in my app. That might be useful > for other people, so it could make a good plugin (for a plugin?). > Maybe people would be interested in helping out with that. > > Let me know if anybody would be interested in this kind of stuff. I > can just give a quick talk about my app, or if anybody is interested > in the other stuff I mentioned, that would be great, too. > > - Trevor > > On 7/3/07, Josh Cronemeyer wrote: > > > > Chirbers, > > > > I'm wondering if anyone has anything they would like to talk about for > the > > August meeting. Peter and I were talking about the importance of the > user > > group as a forum for sharing projects and ideas both big and small. I > think > > it is worth mentioning that presentations need not be more than a > quick > > outline. Throwing something out there can be good incentive for > learning > > about technology X. Don't feel like you need to be an expert on the > topic > > you are presenting, a good approach is to be more of a discussion > > facilitator. Do your research, write up some points to discuss, > questions > > to ask. I for one would like to hear presentations by people who > don't > > generally speak up, even if it as simple as I use ruby for X. Ideas? > > Comments? > > > > Josh Cronemeyer > > _______________________________________________ > > ChicagoGroup-Members-List at rubyforge.org > > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/chicagogroup-members-list > > > _______________________________________________ > ChicagoGroup-Members-List at rubyforge.org > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/chicagogroup-members-list > _______________________________________________ > ChicagoGroup-Members-List at rubyforge.org > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/chicagogroup-members-list > From trevorturk at yahoo.com Tue Jul 3 14:13:11 2007 From: trevorturk at yahoo.com (Trevor Turk) Date: Tue, 3 Jul 2007 13:13:11 -0500 Subject: [Chirb] thanks In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: I didn't know the pizza got there at 6...! On 7/3/07, Josh Cronemeyer wrote: > > We pretty much do that already... I don't want to give people an excuse to > get there any later than they already do. I don't get home until late as it > is. My vote is to keep things as they are. The doors open at 6pm and that > is when pizza arrives so if you want to squeeze in some socialy social time > just come earlier :) From ryan at platte.name Tue Jul 3 14:26:55 2007 From: ryan at platte.name (Ryan Platte) Date: Tue, 3 Jul 2007 13:26:55 -0500 Subject: [Chirb] thanks In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <2f1a1dcb0707031126l21529e26y29bf05eeb8784f4b@mail.gmail.com> Please include that in the event postings, then -- I would have come earlier to the June meeting if I'd known I was welcome at 6. Something like "Doors open and pizza arrives at 6, start the meeting at 6:30." On 7/3/07, Josh Cronemeyer wrote: > > > We pretty much do that already... I don't want to give people an excuse > to get there any later than they already do. I don't get home until late as > it is. My vote is to keep things as they are. The doors open at 6pm and > that is when pizza arrives so if you want to squeeze in some socialy social > time just come earlier :) > > Josh Cronemeyer > > chicagogroup-members-list-bounces at rubyforge.org wrote on 07/03/2007 > 12:34:59 PM: > > > Perhaps we can reserve the initial 15 - 20 minutes of every meeting > > for pizza and social networking time? It will give late people, like > > myself, some buffer time, and we can do new member introduction or > > just general talking amongst ourselves. > > > > Peter > > > > From: chicagogroup-members-list-bounces at rubyforge.org [mailto: > > chicagogroup-members-list-bounces at rubyforge.org] On Behalf Of Josh > Cronemeyer > > Sent: Tuesday, July 03, 2007 9:52 AM > > To: Chirb discussion list > > Subject: Re: [Chirb] thanks > > > > > > Ryan, > > > > Thanks for coming and welcome to the group. Feel free to speak up at > > the next meeting and kick off some introductions. I don't know about > > you guys, but I really struggle to learn names so I wouldn't mind a > > refresher course. > > > > Josh Cronemeyer > > > > chicagogroup-members-list-bounces at rubyforge.org wrote on 07/03/2007 > 09:17:36 AM: > > > > > Josh, Peter, > > > > > > Thanks for your presentations at the Chirb meeting last night. I > > > wanted to introduce myself, but had to catch my train before Peter was > > > done. I just joined the group last month, and this was my first > > > meeting. Maybe you could do new member introductions at a future > meeting. > > > > > > A little about me...I've been a professional developer for 10 years, > > > and have most of this time doing Java web development. Currently I'm > > > working on a .NET rich client application. Ruby hasn't made its way > > > into my company yet, but I'm learning Ruby and Rails on my own, and > > > loving the beauty of Ruby code. I joined the group to meet and learn > > > from other Ruby developers. I'd like to get involved in a project > > > eventually. Looking forward to future meetings. > > > > > > Also, thanks to ThoughtWorks for the pizza. > > > > > > Ryan Kannegiesser > > > Never miss an email again! > > > Yahoo! Toolbar alerts you the instant new Mail arrives. Check it out. > > > _______________________________________________ > > > ChicagoGroup-Members-List at rubyforge.org > > > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/chicagogroup-members-list > > _______________________________________________ > > ChicagoGroup-Members-List at rubyforge.org > > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/chicagogroup-members-list > > _______________________________________________ > ChicagoGroup-Members-List at rubyforge.org > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/chicagogroup-members-list > -- Ryan Platte -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://rubyforge.org/pipermail/chicagogroup-members-list/attachments/20070703/80d1bc52/attachment.html From qzzzq1 at gmail.com Tue Jul 3 14:31:29 2007 From: qzzzq1 at gmail.com (colin h) Date: Tue, 3 Jul 2007 13:31:29 -0500 Subject: [Chirb] thanks In-Reply-To: <2f1a1dcb0707031126l21529e26y29bf05eeb8784f4b@mail.gmail.com> References: <2f1a1dcb0707031126l21529e26y29bf05eeb8784f4b@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <507da57a0707031131o3464254ave79e350004b4c51d@mail.gmail.com> yah.. i was always wondering why the pizza appeared totally picked over by the time i arrived... hmm... so it *wasn't* part of my overall paranoid world conspiracy... On 7/3/07, Ryan Platte wrote: > Please include that in the event postings, then -- I would have come earlier > to the June meeting if I'd known I was welcome at 6. Something like "Doors > open and pizza arrives at 6, start the meeting at 6:30." > > On 7/3/07, Josh Cronemeyer wrote: > > > > We pretty much do that already... I don't want to give people an excuse > to get there any later than they already do. I don't get home until late as > it is. My vote is to keep things as they are. The doors open at 6pm and > that is when pizza arrives so if you want to squeeze in some socialy social > time just come earlier :) > > > > Josh Cronemeyer > > > > chicagogroup-members-list-bounces at rubyforge.org wrote on > 07/03/2007 12:34:59 PM: > > > > > > > Perhaps we can reserve the initial 15 - 20 minutes of every meeting > > > for pizza and social networking time? It will give late people, like > > > myself, some buffer time, and we can do new member introduction or > > > just general talking amongst ourselves. > > > > > > Peter > > > > > > From: chicagogroup-members-list-bounces at rubyforge.org > [mailto: > > > chicagogroup-members-list-bounces at rubyforge.org] On > Behalf Of Josh Cronemeyer > > > Sent: Tuesday, July 03, 2007 9:52 AM > > > To: Chirb discussion list > > > Subject: Re: [Chirb] thanks > > > > > > > > > Ryan, > > > > > > Thanks for coming and welcome to the group. Feel free to speak up at > > > the next meeting and kick off some introductions. I don't know about > > > you guys, but I really struggle to learn names so I wouldn't mind a > > > refresher course. > > > > > > Josh Cronemeyer > > > > > > chicagogroup-members-list-bounces at rubyforge.org wrote > on 07/03/2007 09:17:36 AM: > > > > > > > Josh, Peter, > > > > > > > > Thanks for your presentations at the Chirb meeting last night. I > > > > wanted to introduce myself, but had to catch my train before Peter was > > > > done. I just joined the group last month, and this was my first > > > > meeting. Maybe you could do new member introductions at a future > meeting. > > > > > > > > A little about me...I've been a professional developer for 10 years, > > > > and have most of this time doing Java web development. Currently I'm > > > > working on a .NET rich client application. Ruby hasn't made its way > > > > into my company yet, but I'm learning Ruby and Rails on my own, and > > > > loving the beauty of Ruby code. I joined the group to meet and learn > > > > from other Ruby developers. I'd like to get involved in a project > > > > eventually. Looking forward to future meetings. > > > > > > > > Also, thanks to ThoughtWorks for the pizza. > > > > > > > > Ryan Kannegiesser > > > > Never miss an email again! > > > > Yahoo! Toolbar alerts you the instant new Mail arrives. Check it out. > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > ChicagoGroup-Members-List at rubyforge.org > > > > > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/chicagogroup-members-list > > > _______________________________________________ > > > ChicagoGroup-Members-List at rubyforge.org > > > > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/chicagogroup-members-list > > > > _______________________________________________ > > ChicagoGroup-Members-List at rubyforge.org > > > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/chicagogroup-members-list > > > > > > -- > Ryan Platte > _______________________________________________ > ChicagoGroup-Members-List at rubyforge.org > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/chicagogroup-members-list > From jcroneme at thoughtworks.com Tue Jul 3 14:36:58 2007 From: jcroneme at thoughtworks.com (Josh Cronemeyer) Date: Tue, 3 Jul 2007 13:36:58 -0500 Subject: [Chirb] thanks In-Reply-To: <2f1a1dcb0707031126l21529e26y29bf05eeb8784f4b@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: Will do. Not sure why i never made it official, people already showed up at 6pm and i never worried about it. Josh Cronemeyer chicagogroup-members-list-bounces at rubyforge.org wrote on 07/03/2007 01:26:55 PM: > Please include that in the event postings, then -- I would have come > earlier to the June meeting if I'd known I was welcome at 6. Something > like "Doors open and pizza arrives at 6, start the meeting at 6:30." > On 7/3/07, Josh Cronemeyer wrote: > > We pretty much do that already... I don't want to give people an > excuse to get there any later than they already do. I don't get home > until late as it is. My vote is to keep things as they are. The > doors open at 6pm and that is when pizza arrives so if you want to > squeeze in some socialy social time just come earlier :) > > Josh Cronemeyer > > chicagogroup-members-list-bounces at rubyforge.org wrote on 07/03/2007 12:34:59 PM: > > > > Perhaps we can reserve the initial 15 - 20 minutes of every meeting > > for pizza and social networking time? It will give late people, like > > myself, some buffer time, and we can do new member introduction or > > just general talking amongst ourselves. > > > > Peter > > > > From: chicagogroup-members-list-bounces at rubyforge.org [mailto: > > chicagogroup-members-list-bounces at rubyforge.org] On Behalf Of Josh Cronemeyer > > Sent: Tuesday, July 03, 2007 9:52 AM > > To: Chirb discussion list > > Subject: Re: [Chirb] thanks > > > > > > Ryan, > > > > Thanks for coming and welcome to the group. Feel free to speak up at > > the next meeting and kick off some introductions. I don't know about > > you guys, but I really struggle to learn names so I wouldn't mind a > > refresher course. > > > > Josh Cronemeyer > > > > chicagogroup-members-list-bounces at rubyforge.org wrote on 07/03/2007 > 09:17:36 AM: > > > > > Josh, Peter, > > > > > > Thanks for your presentations at the Chirb meeting last night. I > > > wanted to introduce myself, but had to catch my train before Peter was > > > done. I just joined the group last month, and this was my first > > > meeting. Maybe you could do new member introductions at a future meeting. > > > > > > A little about me...I've been a professional developer for 10 years, > > > and have most of this time doing Java web development. Currently I'm > > > working on a .NET rich client application. Ruby hasn't made its way > > > into my company yet, but I'm learning Ruby and Rails on my own, and > > > loving the beauty of Ruby code. I joined the group to meet and learn > > > from other Ruby developers. I'd like to get involved in a project > > > eventually. Looking forward to future meetings. > > > > > > Also, thanks to ThoughtWorks for the pizza. > > > > > > Ryan Kannegiesser > > > Never miss an email again! > > > Yahoo! Toolbar alerts you the instant new Mail arrives. Check it out. > > > _______________________________________________ > > > ChicagoGroup-Members-List at rubyforge.org > > > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/chicagogroup-members-list > > _______________________________________________ > > ChicagoGroup-Members-List at rubyforge.org > > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/chicagogroup-members-list > > _______________________________________________ > ChicagoGroup-Members-List at rubyforge.org > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/chicagogroup-members-list > > > > -- > Ryan Platte _______________________________________________ > ChicagoGroup-Members-List at rubyforge.org > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/chicagogroup-members-list -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Maybe you could > do new member introductions at a future meeting. > > A little about me...I've been a professional developer for 10 years, and > have most of this time doing Java web development. Currently I'm working on > a .NET rich client application. Ruby hasn't made its way into my company > yet, but I'm learning Ruby and Rails on my own, and loving the beauty of > Ruby code. I joined the group to meet and learn from other Ruby developers. > I'd like to get involved in a project eventually. Looking forward to future > meetings. > > Also, thanks to ThoughtWorks for the pizza. > > Ryan Kannegiesser > > ------------------------------ > Never miss an email again! > Yahoo! Toolbaralerts you the instant new Mail arrives.Check it out. > > > _______________________________________________ > ChicagoGroup-Members-List at rubyforge.org > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/chicagogroup-members-list > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://rubyforge.org/pipermail/chicagogroup-members-list/attachments/20070703/aaa2e78f/attachment.html From gensym at mac.com Wed Jul 4 13:34:54 2007 From: gensym at mac.com (David Altenburg) Date: Wed, 4 Jul 2007 12:34:54 -0500 Subject: [Chirb] August meeting and why you should be the next chirb presenter! In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <0FDF5E36-2FA5-4129-BEDE-4BC73E0F55C4@mac.com> I'd be interested in talking about bayesian classification and cool stuff you can do with it using ruby. David On Jul 3, 2007, at 9:59 AM, Josh Cronemeyer wrote: > > Chirbers, > > I'm wondering if anyone has anything they would like to talk about > for the August meeting. Peter and I were talking about the > importance of the user group as a forum for sharing projects and > ideas both big and small. I think it is worth mentioning that > presentations need not be more than a quick outline. Throwing > something out there can be good incentive for learning about > technology X. Don't feel like you need to be an expert on the > topic you are presenting, a good approach is to be more of a > discussion facilitator. Do your research, write up some points to > discuss, questions to ask. I for one would like to hear > presentations by people who don't generally speak up, even if it as > simple as I use ruby for X. Ideas? Comments? > > Josh Cronemeyer > _______________________________________________ > ChicagoGroup-Members-List at rubyforge.org > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/chicagogroup-members-list From danw at wellsoftware.com Thu Jul 5 22:23:36 2007 From: danw at wellsoftware.com (Dan Wellisch) Date: Thu, 05 Jul 2007 21:23:36 -0500 Subject: [Chirb] Northshore Agile Group 1st Meeting Message-ID: <468DA7A8.4020207@wellsoftware.com> Hello all: We finally got this organized. Please visit http://northshore-agile-group-startup.eventbrite.com/ for details on how to register for this meeting. It is free and we will have our first talk/discussion as well as discuss future meeting details. Looking forward to seeing you there. -- Dan Wellisch Wellisch Software Technologies, Inc. www.wellsoftware.com 847-254-Well (9355) From jcroneme at thoughtworks.com Fri Jul 6 14:59:39 2007 From: jcroneme at thoughtworks.com (Josh Cronemeyer) Date: Fri, 6 Jul 2007 13:59:39 -0500 Subject: [Chirb] August meeting Message-ID: Hey all. The august meeting is scheduled. http://www.chirb.org/event/show/20. Please RSVP. I've listed david and trevor as the main presenters, but we might have room for one more (depending on the lengths of the talks) so feel free to come prepared. Josh Cronemeyer -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://rubyforge.org/pipermail/chicagogroup-members-list/attachments/20070706/7f760a36/attachment.html From trevorturk at yahoo.com Fri Jul 6 15:29:40 2007 From: trevorturk at yahoo.com (Trevor Turk) Date: Fri, 6 Jul 2007 14:29:40 -0500 Subject: [Chirb] August meeting In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Yeah, I can probably come up with stuff to talk about for a long time, but I don't mind keeping things short as well. I'll try to prepare something of an appropriate length depending on how many people want to talk. If you're interested in checking El Dorado out beforehand, it's pretty stable at this point. You can just check out the trunk and do a rake db:schema:load. It should create the first user and stuff for you when you give it the old script/server. http://eldorado.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ - Trevor On 7/6/07, Josh Cronemeyer wrote: > > Hey all. The august meeting is scheduled. > http://www.chirb.org/event/show/20. Please RSVP. I've > listed david and trevor as the main presenters, but we might have room for > one more (depending on the lengths of the talks) so feel free to come > prepared. > > Josh Cronemeyer From adyrcz at gmail.com Tue Jul 10 17:31:56 2007 From: adyrcz at gmail.com (Andy Dyrcz) Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2007 16:31:56 -0500 Subject: [Chirb] Ruby and Active Directory Message-ID: <320e96240707101431r1bad2706v9ad899e9a60720d6@mail.gmail.com> Good Afternoon everyone. I am trying to create a corporate phone book for our Intranet. We are a windows shop so we are using Active Directory. That is where I want to pull all my data from. How do I go about querying AD with Ruby? I want to be able to query AD and create a table for each division office we have with names, emails, phone number, and extensions. When you click on the name it would bring up another window with a "vcard" (all other pertinent information). I would like to do this within a rails application. I am just looking for some help pointing me in the right directions. Looking for a little light at the end of this currently very dark tunnel. Ahah Any help is greatly appreciated. -- Andy Dyrcz A+, Network +, Linux + adyrcz at gmail.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://rubyforge.org/pipermail/chicagogroup-members-list/attachments/20070710/cc123698/attachment.html From dave at obtiva.com Tue Jul 10 17:44:01 2007 From: dave at obtiva.com (Dave Hoover) Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2007 16:44:01 -0500 Subject: [Chirb] Ruby and Active Directory In-Reply-To: <320e96240707101431r1bad2706v9ad899e9a60720d6@mail.gmail.com> References: <320e96240707101431r1bad2706v9ad899e9a60720d6@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <11c8704e0707101444h5e9883c7uff63c18c81a63d52@mail.gmail.com> > How do I go about querying AD with Ruby? This looks promising... http://wiki.rubyonrails.org/rails/pages/ActiveDirectory From cstejerean at gmail.com Tue Jul 10 18:06:45 2007 From: cstejerean at gmail.com (Cosmin Stejerean) Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2007 17:06:45 -0500 Subject: [Chirb] Ruby and Active Directory In-Reply-To: <11c8704e0707101444h5e9883c7uff63c18c81a63d52@mail.gmail.com> References: <320e96240707101431r1bad2706v9ad899e9a60720d6@mail.gmail.com> <11c8704e0707101444h5e9883c7uff63c18c81a63d52@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <365B435C-AA48-4740-9207-606291947F18@gmail.com> Active directory can be accessed via LDAP for most purposes. A generic ruby leap library ought to allow you to get the required data. Cosmin Stejerean (m) On Jul 10, 2007, at 4:44 PM, "Dave Hoover" wrote: >> How do I go about querying AD with Ruby? > > This looks promising... > http://wiki.rubyonrails.org/rails/pages/ActiveDirectory > _______________________________________________ > ChicagoGroup-Members-List at rubyforge.org > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/chicagogroup-members-list From qzzzq1 at gmail.com Wed Jul 11 13:16:41 2007 From: qzzzq1 at gmail.com (colin h) Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2007 12:16:41 -0500 Subject: [Chirb] Ruby and Active Directory In-Reply-To: <365B435C-AA48-4740-9207-606291947F18@gmail.com> References: <320e96240707101431r1bad2706v9ad899e9a60720d6@mail.gmail.com> <11c8704e0707101444h5e9883c7uff63c18c81a63d52@mail.gmail.com> <365B435C-AA48-4740-9207-606291947F18@gmail.com> Message-ID: <507da57a0707111016n7fcac572x6a9ab1a2f0f609c6@mail.gmail.com> just a warning that this is all information from 6 month old memories... your mileage may vary.. if you are using a windows machine that's got WMI installed (xp and greater i want to say) then this will work to create a user... i also think the connect object can get alot more complicated if you want to specify login credentials other then your own... there also are methods to query what OLE methods are available to the WIN32OLE objects... since windows makes my brain hurt, i've not progresses much more then this. i might still have all my research sources around here i'll send if i can find them.. I've personally found that a number of vbscript files that use ADSI were "easily" convertable to ruby require 'win32ole' domain = WIN32OLE.connect("WinNT://my_domain.com") user = domain.Create("user", "my_username") user.FullName = "Foo Bar" user.Description = "just a lil ol' test of how ruby <3 ADSI" user.SetPassword = "my_password" user.SetInfo On 7/10/07, Cosmin Stejerean wrote: > Active directory can be accessed via LDAP for most purposes. A generic > ruby leap library ought to allow you to get the required data. > > Cosmin Stejerean (m) > > > On Jul 10, 2007, at 4:44 PM, "Dave Hoover" wrote: > > >> How do I go about querying AD with Ruby? > > > > This looks promising... > > http://wiki.rubyonrails.org/rails/pages/ActiveDirectory > > _______________________________________________ > > ChicagoGroup-Members-List at rubyforge.org > > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/chicagogroup-members-list > _______________________________________________ > ChicagoGroup-Members-List at rubyforge.org > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/chicagogroup-members-list > From cohen.jeff at gmail.com Sat Jul 14 11:00:48 2007 From: cohen.jeff at gmail.com (Jeff Cohen) Date: Sat, 14 Jul 2007 10:00:48 -0500 Subject: [Chirb] Ruby on Rails class in Chicago Message-ID: <3d7e01550707140800n7de2cc8m90033d422aebce96@mail.gmail.com> Hello all, Just wanted to let everyone know about another "Softies on Rails" class coming up quick in September. It's a 2-day seminar geared for those new to Rails and even web development in general (usually the people who come are former .NET or Java devs). We focus on getting started with Rails and agile practices therein. When: Sept 21-22, 2007 Where: Hilton Garden Inn O'Hare Cost: $495 - includes breakfast, lunch, and snacks all day The class announcement is still available at www.softiesonrails.com; even more details can be found at www.essentialrails.com. Our last class sold out, so if you're interested at all, sign up soon. Thanks! Let me know if you have any questions. Jeff -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://rubyforge.org/pipermail/chicagogroup-members-list/attachments/20070714/3ab0639f/attachment.html From jawolter at gmail.com Sun Jul 15 13:00:17 2007 From: jawolter at gmail.com (Jonathan Andrew Wolter) Date: Sun, 15 Jul 2007 13:00:17 -0400 Subject: [Chirb] xpath // selector operating strangely (or an obvious mistake I'm missing) Message-ID: <32ca7bf50707151000k526f61aawda4095e51571f728@mail.gmail.com> Hi, Using the "//" xpath selector in a block, I've got this situation: # Expected: # War and Peace # Optimization in Operations Research # Actual: # War and Peace # War and Peace Shouldn't the "//nodename" operator only find nodes under the current node's reference context? require 'rexml/document' simple_xml = %{ War and Peace Optimization in Operations Research } simple_doc = REXML::Document.new(simple_xml) REXML::XPath.each(simple_doc, '//book') do |book| puts book.elements['//title'] end It's as if the first -- and only the first matching node returns -- even though I'm calling elements[ xpath query] on the book node's context Any ideas appreciated, Jonathan --- references --- w3schools thinks so: // Selects nodes in the document from the current node that match the selection no matter where they are http://www.w3schools.com/xpath/xpath_syntax.asp -- Connect http://linkedin.com/in/jawolter sms/cell: 765-532-6876 JAWspeak.com Techsocial.com "To know, and not to do, is not yet to know." From dchelimsky at gmail.com Sun Jul 15 13:14:01 2007 From: dchelimsky at gmail.com (David Chelimsky) Date: Sun, 15 Jul 2007 12:14:01 -0500 Subject: [Chirb] xpath // selector operating strangely (or an obvious mistake I'm missing) In-Reply-To: <32ca7bf50707151000k526f61aawda4095e51571f728@mail.gmail.com> References: <32ca7bf50707151000k526f61aawda4095e51571f728@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <57c63afe0707151014n482117cagfd4b04db63d35cc@mail.gmail.com> On 7/15/07, Jonathan Andrew Wolter wrote: > Hi, > > Using the "//" xpath selector in a block, I've got this situation: > # Expected: > # War and Peace > # Optimization in Operations Research > > # Actual: > # War and Peace > # War and Peace > > > Shouldn't the "//nodename" operator only find nodes under the current > node's reference context? > > > require 'rexml/document' > simple_xml = %{ > > War and Peace > > > Optimization in Operations Research > > } > > simple_doc = REXML::Document.new(simple_xml) > REXML::XPath.each(simple_doc, '//book') do |book| > puts book.elements['//title'] > end > > > It's as if the first -- and only the first matching node returns -- > even though I'm calling elements[ xpath query] on the book node's > context > > Any ideas appreciated, > > Jonathan > > --- references --- > w3schools thinks so: > // Selects nodes in the document from the current node that match > the selection no matter where they are > http://www.w3schools.com/xpath/xpath_syntax.asp My understanding is that // will find anything below the document root and that you should use a single slash to scope the path below the current node. I don't recall where I learned this - sorry. Can anybody else point to a resource? > > > > -- > Connect http://linkedin.com/in/jawolter > sms/cell: 765-532-6876 JAWspeak.com Techsocial.com > "To know, and not to do, is not yet to know." > _______________________________________________ > ChicagoGroup-Members-List at rubyforge.org > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/chicagogroup-members-list > From ken at nika.com Sun Jul 15 14:42:55 2007 From: ken at nika.com (Ken Pelletier) Date: Sun, 15 Jul 2007 13:42:55 -0500 Subject: [Chirb] xpath // selector operating strangely (or an obvious mistake I'm missing) In-Reply-To: <57c63afe0707151014n482117cagfd4b04db63d35cc@mail.gmail.com> References: <32ca7bf50707151000k526f61aawda4095e51571f728@mail.gmail.com> <57c63afe0707151014n482117cagfd4b04db63d35cc@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: > On Jul 15, 2007, at 12:14 PM, David Chelimsky wrote: > My understanding is that // will find anything below the document root > and that you should use a single slash to scope the path below the > current node. I don't recall where I learned this - sorry. Can anybody > else point to a resource? That is the correct behavior. '//', when it appears at the start of an expression is document root of 'the same document as the context node'; it's not anchored at that context node. http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath covers it well, and this example sums up the document root meaning of '//' at the start of a path expr: "//para selects all the para descendants of the document root and thus selects all para elements in the same document as the context node" If what you're after are all of the child nodes called 'title' of the current 'book' node, you can just use this: book.elements['title'] '//' can also be nested within a step expression if you want to match nodes with a specific ancestor, but without regard to their parent. require 'rexml/document' simple_xml = %{ match me and me don't match me } simple_doc = REXML::Document.new(simple_xml) REXML::XPath.each(simple_doc, '/baaz/foo//bar') do |elem| puts elem.text() end => match me => and me - Ken On Jul 15, 2007, at 12:14 PM, David Chelimsky wrote: > On 7/15/07, Jonathan Andrew Wolter wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Using the "//" xpath selector in a block, I've got this situation: >> # Expected: >> # War and Peace >> # Optimization in Operations Research >> >> # Actual: >> # War and Peace >> # War and Peace >> >> >> Shouldn't the "//nodename" operator only find nodes under the current >> node's reference context? >> >> >> require 'rexml/document' >> simple_xml = %{ >> >> War and Peace >> >> >> Optimization in Operations Research >> >> } >> >> simple_doc = REXML::Document.new(simple_xml) >> REXML::XPath.each(simple_doc, '//book') do |book| >> puts book.elements['//title'] >> end >> >> >> It's as if the first -- and only the first matching node returns -- >> even though I'm calling elements[ xpath query] on the book node's >> context >> >> Any ideas appreciated, >> >> Jonathan >> >> --- references --- >> w3schools thinks so: >> // Selects nodes in the document from the current node that >> match >> the selection no matter where they are >> http://www.w3schools.com/xpath/xpath_syntax.asp > > My understanding is that // will find anything below the document root > and that you should use a single slash to scope the path below the > current node. I don't recall where I learned this - sorry. Can anybody > else point to a resource? > >> >> >> >> -- >> Connect http://linkedin.com/in/jawolter >> sms/cell: 765-532-6876 JAWspeak.com Techsocial.com >> "To know, and not to do, is not yet to know." >> _______________________________________________ >> ChicagoGroup-Members-List at rubyforge.org >> http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/chicagogroup-members-list >> > _______________________________________________ > ChicagoGroup-Members-List at rubyforge.org > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/chicagogroup-members-list