From peter.fitzgibbons at gmail.com Fri Aug 1 11:56:12 2008 From: peter.fitzgibbons at gmail.com (Peter Fitzgibbons) Date: Fri, 1 Aug 2008 10:56:12 -0500 Subject: [Chirb] Composite UI in Rails In-Reply-To: <670a00380808010828j2a613cf6ycf41315c810bb5cc@mail.gmail.com> References: <670a00380808010828j2a613cf6ycf41315c810bb5cc@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <670a00380808010856m7c90078frfa8114e3421485c7@mail.gmail.com> Hello everyone. I'm looking for some direction on "composite UI" in rails. Something like this : app requires "info" component, which should be a group of MVC. Implementations of the "info" MVC can be interchangeably inserted into the app either on-the-fly (this is ruby!) or at least on app-startup so that the "rss-info" or "notification-info" modules can be specified. Can you give me an idea of what plugin/extension I'm looking for to do this ? Thanks! Peter Fitzgibbons (847) 687-7646 Email: peter.fitzgibbons at gmail.com IM GTalk: peter.fitzgibbons IM Yahoo: pjfitzgibbons IM MSN: pjfitzgibbons at hotmail.com IM AOL: peter.fitzgibbons at gmail.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From hubrix at hubrix.com Fri Aug 1 12:01:19 2008 From: hubrix at hubrix.com (Mark Alexander Friedgan) Date: Fri, 1 Aug 2008 11:01:19 -0500 Subject: [Chirb] Composite UI in Rails In-Reply-To: <670a00380808010856m7c90078frfa8114e3421485c7@mail.gmail.com> References: <670a00380808010828j2a613cf6ycf41315c810bb5cc@mail.gmail.com> <670a00380808010856m7c90078frfa8114e3421485c7@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: take a look at Kurt's cabar component framework http://rubyforge.org/projects/*cabar* On Fri, Aug 1, 2008 at 10:56 AM, Peter Fitzgibbons < peter.fitzgibbons at gmail.com> wrote: > Hello everyone. > > I'm looking for some direction on "composite UI" in rails. Something like > this : app requires "info" component, which should be a group of MVC. > Implementations of the "info" MVC can be interchangeably inserted into the > app either on-the-fly (this is ruby!) or at least on app-startup so that the > "rss-info" or "notification-info" modules can be specified. > > Can you give me an idea of what plugin/extension I'm looking for to do this > ? > Thanks! > > Peter Fitzgibbons > (847) 687-7646 > Email: peter.fitzgibbons at gmail.com > IM GTalk: peter.fitzgibbons > IM Yahoo: pjfitzgibbons > IM MSN: pjfitzgibbons at hotmail.com > IM AOL: peter.fitzgibbons at gmail.com > > > _______________________________________________ > ChicagoGroup-Members-List at rubyforge.org > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/chicagogroup-members-list > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From peter.fitzgibbons at gmail.com Mon Aug 4 15:23:50 2008 From: peter.fitzgibbons at gmail.com (Peter Fitzgibbons) Date: Mon, 4 Aug 2008 14:23:50 -0500 Subject: [Chirb] Learning Ruby and Rails Curriculum Design ? In-Reply-To: <670a00380808041223t5f0ebfc9p1bc6cd8ccfa260cc@mail.gmail.com> References: <670a00380808041223t5f0ebfc9p1bc6cd8ccfa260cc@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <670a00380808041223q6e4ab319xd1956cac57ca3160@mail.gmail.com> Hello All, My development dept. just decided to move forward in a new effort to use Ruby on Rails. The others in the dept. are learning Ruby and Rails from the ground up. I have started them this afternoon on Why's Poignant Guide and TryRuby.hobix.com Could you all suggest a "curriculum" for them to follow ? (and I as a refresher, as I've been out of rails coding for about 18 mos) Thanks ! Peter Fitzgibbons (847) 687-7646 Email: peter.fitzgibbons at gmail.com IM GTalk: peter.fitzgibbons IM Yahoo: pjfitzgibbons IM MSN: pjfitzgibbons at hotmail.com IM AOL: peter.fitzgibbons at gmail.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From brandon at opensoul.org Mon Aug 4 16:01:57 2008 From: brandon at opensoul.org (Brandon Keepers) Date: Mon, 4 Aug 2008 16:01:57 -0400 Subject: [Chirb] Learning Ruby and Rails Curriculum Design ? In-Reply-To: <670a00380808041223q6e4ab319xd1956cac57ca3160@mail.gmail.com> References: <670a00380808041223t5f0ebfc9p1bc6cd8ccfa260cc@mail.gmail.com> <670a00380808041223q6e4ab319xd1956cac57ca3160@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <8A853410-1D4B-4F4A-928C-864C87C635AF@opensoul.org> Hey Peter, On Aug 4, 2008, at 3:23 PM, Peter Fitzgibbons wrote: > My development dept. just decided to move forward in a new effort to > use Ruby on Rails. > The others in the dept. are learning Ruby and Rails from the ground > up. That's great. I'm sure they'll find it very refreshing. > I have started them this afternoon on Why's Poignant Guide and > TryRuby.hobix.com > > Could you all suggest a "curriculum" for them to follow ? (and I as > a refresher, as I've been out of rails coding for about 18 mos) The available materials have changed a lot in the last 18 months. There's a ton of books available, and even more coming out in the next year. The original "Agile Web Development with Rails" (now in 3rd edition) is great for newbies. I would also recommend "The Rails Way" by Obie Fernandez. It's a great in-depth look at every part of the Rails framework. Amazon reviews would probably be most helpful for sorting through the plethora of other books. http://rubylearning.com/ has some free materials for Ruby, I'm not sure what they have for Rails. There's also hands-on training available: http://sessions.collectiveidea.com/ . You can come to us, or we can come to you. Let me know if you want to talk more about it. Thanks, Brandon -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: PGP.sig Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 194 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part URL: From stcorbett at gmail.com Tue Aug 5 09:07:13 2008 From: stcorbett at gmail.com (Sean Corbett) Date: Tue, 5 Aug 2008 08:07:13 -0500 Subject: [Chirb] Lightning Talk: Agile Startup Methodologies Message-ID: Howdie Chirb'ers, For those of you who saw my talk last night on Agile Startup Methodologies, can you give me some feedback? I'm presenting a similar talk at SocialDevCamp this weekend: http://barcamp.pbwiki.com/SocialDevCampChicago. anything you liked/found interesting? anything you didn't like? For reference: the pdf of the presentation is at: http://commonthreadmediallc.com/files/Agile-Startup-Methodologies.pdf Thanks! -Sean Corbett -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From jason at hostedlabs.com Tue Aug 5 09:07:53 2008 From: jason at hostedlabs.com (Jason Rexilius) Date: Tue, 05 Aug 2008 08:07:53 -0500 Subject: [Chirb] BARcamp Chicago Aug 15th! Message-ID: <489850A9.2040705@hostedlabs.com> Hey Everyone, BARcamp Chicago 2008 is coming up in a week and a half! The weekend of Aug 15th at 1240 W. Harrison St (UIC area). Wow, time flies. Its being held at the Innovation Center at UIC which is this cool new space for tech commercialization projects. I posted a couple of snapshots on the wiki: http://barcampchicago.com/WherePage Sean Johnson is working on the Food and I know its going to be impossible, but we'd like to try and estimate the amount. Can people either reply to me or add their name to the wiki? http://barcampchicago.com/AttendeeList -or- barcamp-subscribe at corp.hostedlabs.com One of the really cool events happening at BARcamp this year is an Erlang workshop being given by Martin Logan and Erlang User group team. If you dont know about Erlang, its a very cool Functional language thats good for distributed computing. Martin and others at Orbitz are putting some Erlang code into production and they have an open source project that they are putting out I believe. As with every year, we have lots of cool talks lined up and I expect a lot more to develop over the weekend. The Chicago LUG is donating a keg, like the previous years and the organizers have been working like crazy. Its coming together despite my being a disorganized slacker ;-) CALL FOR HELP: 1) RSVP in some form or fashion, (call me, email, join the list, add to wiki). Need to size catering. 2) Get your company to participate, sposnor, bring schwag, give a talk about technology you are using or building. 3) Give a talk. 4) Spread the word. Also note: Social Dev Camp is coming up this weekend, at IIT. Check it out: http://barcamp.pbwiki.com/SocialDevCampChicago Thats it for now. Looking forward to seeing you all next weekend! -jason jason at hostedlabs.com 847.208.1000 From twise at metromix.com Thu Aug 7 15:39:22 2008 From: twise at metromix.com (Wise, Tim) Date: Thu, 07 Aug 2008 14:39:22 -0500 Subject: [Chirb] Ruby on Rails Developer Opp at Metromix Message-ID: All: If you or you happen to know anyone interested in a pure Ruby on Rails development opportunity, please drop us a line at Metromix. We are a RoR/MySQL shop who work in a Scrum & XP process. We are now a separate independent operating company from the Tribune and are a development team of 5 developers, 3 qa, 2 product managers & a company of about 30 people. Drop me a line if you know someone who might be interested. Here is our posting for more details http://jobs.37signals.com/jobs/4070 Thanks in advance. Tim Tim Wise Director, Technology Metromix, LLC 435 North Michigan Avenue Chicago, IL 60611 312/222-3938 twise at metromix.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From krishicks at gmail.com Thu Aug 7 22:24:03 2008 From: krishicks at gmail.com (Kris Hicks) Date: Thu, 7 Aug 2008 21:24:03 -0500 Subject: [Chirb] Lightning Talk: Agile Startup Methodologies In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <1e59c0ea0808071924s3f20e479gf7bbf2f03cae4aea@mail.gmail.com> On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 8:07 AM, Sean Corbett wrote: > For those of you who saw my talk last night on Agile Startup Methodologies, > can you give me some feedback? I'll give you some general information that you may be able to use first: After my first presentation at Chirb, what I learned was that no amount of doing the presentation for myself could prepare me for how it would go over as I gave it and looked at the expressions people gave me in response to what I was saying. I also found I had too much information on slides, and found myself both reading the slides (which only had a few bullets, max), and then trying to make sure I covered everything on the slides. It was kind of messy, I think. When I re-did the presentation for the weekend following at ChicagoRuby, I took out all of the bullets and just had title cards. I remembered to incorporate answers to the questions I was asked into the presentation itself. Doing that seemed to make it go over much more smoothly. It flowed way better. Regarding your presentation, I would say I had similar thoughts to what Josh had asked regarding how the idea for Agile Startup Methodologies came about. Like, did you try one method of managing your startup and found it failed, then came up with the ASM? Did you do this from the beginning? Another thing I had trouble with when I was writing my presentation was figuring out exactly what it was I was trying to convey, and making it simple enough that people who had no idea what I was talking about would walk away with a fairly good idea. Try following the train of thought someone who has no idea what you're talking about would be going through while watching you present. Hope some of this helps. -K From kerryinusa at gmail.com Thu Aug 7 22:25:13 2008 From: kerryinusa at gmail.com (Kerry Tucker) Date: Thu, 7 Aug 2008 21:25:13 -0500 Subject: [Chirb] Ruby on Rails Developer Opp at Metromix In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <8a437a300808071925v5ef14fc2h5e92e784bef063ef@mail.gmail.com> no, but never say never On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 2:39 PM, Wise, Tim wrote: > All: > > If you or you happen to know anyone interested in a pure Ruby on Rails > development opportunity, please drop us a line at Metromix. We are a > RoR/MySQL shop who work in a Scrum & XP process. We are now a separate > independent operating company from the Tribune and are a development team of > 5 developers, 3 qa, 2 product managers & a company of about 30 people. Drop > me a line if you know someone who might be interested. > > Here is our posting for more details > http://jobs.37signals.com/jobs/4070 > > Thanks in advance. > > Tim > > Tim Wise > Director, Technology > Metromix, LLC > 435 North Michigan Avenue > Chicago, IL 60611 > 312/222-3938 > twise at metromix.com > > > _______________________________________________ > ChicagoGroup-Members-List at rubyforge.org > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/chicagogroup-members-list > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From bob_brill at hotmail.com Sat Aug 9 14:31:43 2008 From: bob_brill at hotmail.com (Bob Brill) Date: Sat, 9 Aug 2008 13:31:43 -0500 Subject: [Chirb] Talk advice Message-ID: Just wanted to thank you for sharing your thoughts. I've been periodically reading this list. I remembered this email and saw further comments on twitter today http://twitter.com/MoCheeks "This ... guy obviously knows his stuff... but he has 10 min left to give us practical advice, & stop ..." In case various folks may attend BARcamp Chicago next weekend, I have mulled and now plan to scale back my original thoughts for talk on IP Law & Open Source. Later blog posts, and speeches for the right audiences, can cover further topics and legal content. Cheers.If you have any questions or comments, please do not hesitate to call me or send email at your convenience. As always, please let me know if there is any way I can help you. Regards,BobRobert J. BrillWood Phillips500 W. Madison Street, Suite 3800Chicago, IL 60661-2562(312) 876-2109 direct(312) 876-1800 receptionistrjbrill at woodphillips.com is Bob Brill?s work email, shown on his firm?s website www.woodphillips.combob_brill at hotmail.com is Bob Brill?s personal email, used for lists http://bobbrill.net - IP law bloghttp://www.linkedin.com/in/bobbrill - LinkedIn> Date: Thu, 7 Aug 2008 21:24:03 -0500> From: krishicks at gmail.com> To: chicagogroup-members-list at rubyforge.org> Subject: Re: [Chirb] Lightning Talk: Agile Startup Methodologies> > On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 8:07 AM, Sean Corbett wrote:> > For those of you who saw my talk last night on Agile Startup Methodologies,> > can you give me some feedback?> > I'll give you some general information that you may be able to use first:> > After my first presentation at Chirb, what I learned was that no> amount of doing the presentation for myself could prepare me for how> it would go over as I gave it and looked at the expressions people> gave me in response to what I was saying.> > I also found I had too much information on slides, and found myself> both reading the slides (which only had a few bullets, max), and then> trying to make sure I covered everything on the slides. It was kind> of messy, I think.> > When I re-did the presentation for the weekend following at> ChicagoRuby, I took out all of the bullets and just had title cards.> I remembered to incorporate answers to the questions I was asked into> the presentation itself. Doing that seemed to make it go over much> more smoothly. It flowed way better.> > Regarding your presentation, I would say I had similar thoughts to> what Josh had asked regarding how the idea for Agile Startup> Methodologies came about. Like, did you try one method of managing> your startup and found it failed, then came up with the ASM? Did you> do this from the beginning?> > Another thing I had trouble with when I was writing my presentation> was figuring out exactly what it was I was trying to convey, and> making it simple enough that people who had no idea what I was talking> about would walk away with a fairly good idea. Try following the> train of thought someone who has no idea what you're talking about> would be going through while watching you present.> > Hope some of this helps.> > -K> _______________________________________________> ChicagoGroup-Members-List at rubyforge.org> http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/chicagogroup-members-list _________________________________________________________________ Get Windows Live and get whatever you need, wherever you are. Start here. http://www.windowslive.com/default.html?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_Home_082008 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Shane -- My iPhone Apps: http://is.gd/1iIS (iTunes link) From jcroneme at thoughtworks.com Tue Aug 12 12:00:51 2008 From: jcroneme at thoughtworks.com (Josh Cronemeyer) Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2008 11:00:51 -0500 Subject: [Chirb] September Meeting Message-ID: Earlier this month Vasko volunteered a presentation on Flex, Rspec and FunFX and more than a few people were interested. I've updated the chirb website to have our next meeting which is on Sept. 8th (labor day is the first monday of Sept.) I'm going to update the google calendar later today. Please remember to RSVP. http://www.chirb.org/event/show/32 PS. Hope to see some of you at barcamp this weekend. PEACE! Josh Cronemeyer -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From shanev at gmail.com Tue Aug 12 12:05:22 2008 From: shanev at gmail.com (Shane Vitarana) Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2008 11:05:22 -0500 Subject: [Chirb] Rails on Facebook Peepcode PDF In-Reply-To: <4ab757a40808120840o20fc5118qe45719bc6f13fe53@mail.gmail.com> References: <4ab757a40808120840o20fc5118qe45719bc6f13fe53@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <4ab757a40808120905y27ac756ale8da1a099aa39ceb@mail.gmail.com> I forgot to mention that the first 5 people to email me will get a coupon for a free copy. On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 10:40 AM, Shane Vitarana wrote: > Hey guys- > > The Rails Facebook mini-book that I wrote along with David Clements is > now available: > > http://peepcode.com/products/rails-on-facebook > > It includes a free 10 minute screencast that shows how to create and > configure a demo application on Facebook. > > "This 67 page PDF will get you up and running with the Facebooker > plugin. You'll learn to install and configure the plugin. You'll send > HTML, Javascript, and images to Facebook (with caching). You'll learn > about the parts of Facebook that you can augment. Finally, you'll > learn how to write tests for your Facebook application." --Peepcode > Press > > Thanks! > Shane > > -- > My iPhone Apps: http://is.gd/1iIS (iTunes link) > -- My iPhone Apps: http://is.gd/1iIS (iTunes link) From englert.james at gmail.com Tue Aug 12 12:06:54 2008 From: englert.james at gmail.com (James Englert) Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2008 12:06:54 -0400 Subject: [Chirb] Rails on Facebook Peepcode PDF In-Reply-To: <4ab757a40808120905y27ac756ale8da1a099aa39ceb@mail.gmail.com> References: <4ab757a40808120840o20fc5118qe45719bc6f13fe53@mail.gmail.com> <4ab757a40808120905y27ac756ale8da1a099aa39ceb@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <9becf9a00808120906k4e1b7a23kfaf3569e3db16342@mail.gmail.com> Hey, I would like a free copy if available! Thanks, Jim On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 12:05 PM, Shane Vitarana wrote: > I forgot to mention that the first 5 people to email me will get a > coupon for a free copy. > > On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 10:40 AM, Shane Vitarana wrote: > > Hey guys- > > > > The Rails Facebook mini-book that I wrote along with David Clements is > > now available: > > > > http://peepcode.com/products/rails-on-facebook > > > > It includes a free 10 minute screencast that shows how to create and > > configure a demo application on Facebook. > > > > "This 67 page PDF will get you up and running with the Facebooker > > plugin. You'll learn to install and configure the plugin. You'll send > > HTML, Javascript, and images to Facebook (with caching). You'll learn > > about the parts of Facebook that you can augment. Finally, you'll > > learn how to write tests for your Facebook application." --Peepcode > > Press > > > > Thanks! > > Shane > > > > -- > > My iPhone Apps: http://is.gd/1iIS (iTunes link) > > > > > > -- > My iPhone Apps: http://is.gd/1iIS (iTunes link) > _______________________________________________ > ChicagoGroup-Members-List at rubyforge.org > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/chicagogroup-members-list > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From kev23777 at gmail.com Tue Aug 12 12:11:32 2008 From: kev23777 at gmail.com (Kevin Ruettiger) Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2008 11:11:32 -0500 Subject: [Chirb] Rails on Facebook Peepcode PDF In-Reply-To: <4ab757a40808120840o20fc5118qe45719bc6f13fe53@mail.gmail.com> References: <4ab757a40808120840o20fc5118qe45719bc6f13fe53@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <1cee4c0b0808120911g53d9512bk46ca636f22d4e1c9@mail.gmail.com> I would be interested in the free coupon. On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 10:40 AM, Shane Vitarana wrote: > Hey guys- > > The Rails Facebook mini-book that I wrote along with David Clements is > now available: > > http://peepcode.com/products/rails-on-facebook > > It includes a free 10 minute screencast that shows how to create and > configure a demo application on Facebook. > > "This 67 page PDF will get you up and running with the Facebooker > plugin. You'll learn to install and configure the plugin. You'll send > HTML, Javascript, and images to Facebook (with caching). You'll learn > about the parts of Facebook that you can augment. Finally, you'll > learn how to write tests for your Facebook application." --Peepcode > Press > > Thanks! > Shane > > -- > My iPhone Apps: http://is.gd/1iIS (iTunes link) > _______________________________________________ > ChicagoGroup-Members-List at rubyforge.org > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/chicagogroup-members-list > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From lee.fred.1 at gmail.com Tue Aug 12 12:49:03 2008 From: lee.fred.1 at gmail.com (Fred Lee) Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2008 11:49:03 -0500 Subject: [Chirb] Rails on Facebook Peepcode PDF In-Reply-To: <1cee4c0b0808120911g53d9512bk46ca636f22d4e1c9@mail.gmail.com> References: <4ab757a40808120840o20fc5118qe45719bc6f13fe53@mail.gmail.com> <1cee4c0b0808120911g53d9512bk46ca636f22d4e1c9@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: me too On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 11:11 AM, Kevin Ruettiger wrote: > I would be interested in the free coupon. > > On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 10:40 AM, Shane Vitarana wrote: >> >> Hey guys- >> >> The Rails Facebook mini-book that I wrote along with David Clements is >> now available: >> >> http://peepcode.com/products/rails-on-facebook >> >> It includes a free 10 minute screencast that shows how to create and >> configure a demo application on Facebook. >> >> "This 67 page PDF will get you up and running with the Facebooker >> plugin. You'll learn to install and configure the plugin. You'll send >> HTML, Javascript, and images to Facebook (with caching). You'll learn >> about the parts of Facebook that you can augment. Finally, you'll >> learn how to write tests for your Facebook application." --Peepcode >> Press >> >> Thanks! >> Shane >> >> -- >> My iPhone Apps: http://is.gd/1iIS (iTunes link) >> _______________________________________________ >> 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 jcroneme at thoughtworks.com Tue Aug 12 12:52:45 2008 From: jcroneme at thoughtworks.com (Josh Cronemeyer) Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2008 11:52:45 -0500 Subject: [Chirb] Rails on Facebook Peepcode PDF In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Just FYI... The 5 free are long gone. PEACE! Josh Cronemeyer "Fred Lee" Sent by: chicagogroup-members-list-bounces at rubyforge.org 08/12/08 11:49 AM Please respond to Chirb discussion list To "Chirb discussion list" cc Subject Re: [Chirb] Rails on Facebook Peepcode PDF me too On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 11:11 AM, Kevin Ruettiger wrote: > I would be interested in the free coupon. > > On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 10:40 AM, Shane Vitarana wrote: >> >> Hey guys- >> >> The Rails Facebook mini-book that I wrote along with David Clements is >> now available: >> >> http://peepcode.com/products/rails-on-facebook >> >> It includes a free 10 minute screencast that shows how to create and >> configure a demo application on Facebook. >> >> "This 67 page PDF will get you up and running with the Facebooker >> plugin. You'll learn to install and configure the plugin. You'll send >> HTML, Javascript, and images to Facebook (with caching). You'll learn >> about the parts of Facebook that you can augment. Finally, you'll >> learn how to write tests for your Facebook application." --Peepcode >> Press >> >> Thanks! >> Shane >> >> -- >> My iPhone Apps: http://is.gd/1iIS (iTunes link) >> _______________________________________________ >> 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 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From brandon at opensoul.org Wed Aug 13 11:56:26 2008 From: brandon at opensoul.org (Brandon Keepers) Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2008 11:56:26 -0400 Subject: [Chirb] Advanced Rails Session survey Message-ID: <51F39923-C182-45B4-8F57-4CB9B8401292@opensoul.org> We've had a great time with Sessions (http:// sessions.collectiveidea.com). The reactions to our Rails session in June was amazing. There is another Rails session starting Aug 25, and the first-ever ExpressionEngine session in September. We've had a lot of inquiries about putting on an Advanced Ruby on Rails session. We are working on putting it together and are excited about it, but we want to know what you think. Would you mind helping us out and answering a few questions? We're giving away one free spot to any of our Rails sessions for completing the survey. http://tinyurl.com/advanced-rails-survey Thanks, Brandon -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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I'm currently on rails 2.1 and rspec 1.1.4 Thanks, Posted by David Chelimsky (Guest) on 13.03.2008 10:09 [image: (Received via mailing list)] On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 10:19 PM, Jonathan Linowes wrote: > >> object. > <%= render :partial => 'pages/foo', :layout => 'bar', :locals => > { :f => f } %> > > what's the stub? As of 1.1.3: stub_render(:partial => 'pages/foo', :layout => 'bar', :locals => {:f => }) There is now, in trunk, hash_including matcher, so you *should* (I haven't tried yet) be able to do this: stub_render(hash_including(:locals => {:f => })) That keeps it a bit less brittle, as the previous version will fail if you add anything else to the actual render call this won't fail. Cheers, David I hope Peter Fitzgibbons (847) 687-7646 Email: peter.fitzgibbons at gmail.com IM GTalk: peter.fitzgibbons IM Yahoo: pjfitzgibbons IM MSN: pjfitzgibbons at hotmail.com IM AOL: peter.fitzgibbons at gmail.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From ph at malaprop.org Thu Aug 14 13:59:18 2008 From: ph at malaprop.org (Peter Harkins) Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2008 13:59:18 -0400 Subject: [Chirb] Mocking render :partial w/ options In-Reply-To: <670a00380808141047i10990190n43eddcde80cfa6bc@mail.gmail.com> References: <670a00380808141047i10990190n43eddcde80cfa6bc@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <20080814175918.GA6937@malaprop.org> On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 12:47:58PM -0500, Peter Fitzgibbons wrote: > I'm trying to get the stub_render in the following post to work. > > stub_render(:partial => 'pages/foo', :layout => 'bar', :locals => {:f => }) The error is that you don't assign a value to :f in the :locals hash. Based on the rest of the message, it looks like you want to write: stub_render(:partial => 'pages/foo', :layout => 'bar', :locals => {:f => f}) -- Peter Harkins - http://push.cx - http://NearbyGamers.com From peter.fitzgibbons at gmail.com Thu Aug 14 15:24:29 2008 From: peter.fitzgibbons at gmail.com (Peter Fitzgibbons) Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2008 14:24:29 -0500 Subject: [Chirb] Mocking render :partial w/ options In-Reply-To: <20080814175918.GA6937@malaprop.org> References: <670a00380808141047i10990190n43eddcde80cfa6bc@mail.gmail.com> <20080814175918.GA6937@malaprop.org> Message-ID: <670a00380808141224x51e5b75t982452cc55ba7359@mail.gmail.com> HI Peter, The issue I'm having, along with others that have blogged/posted about this, is that the FormBuilder instance passed in the stub_render is not the same object as the one generated inside the view, which causes the stub_render to not match the given parameters. I have been looking for ways around this. It looks like using Mocha directly could allow me to call FormBuilder.any_instance... but right now rspec w/ mocha gives me ruby spec/views/customer_quotes/new.html.erb_spec.rb F 1) ActionView::TemplateError in '/customer_quotes/new.html.erb should render new form' undefined method `mocha_mocks_path' for # Finished in 0.089368 seconds Any ideas you have would be greatly appreciated!! Thanks, Peter Fitzgibbons (847) 687-7646 Email: peter.fitzgibbons at gmail.com IM GTalk: peter.fitzgibbons IM Yahoo: pjfitzgibbons IM MSN: pjfitzgibbons at hotmail.com IM AOL: peter.fitzgibbons at gmail.com On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 12:59 PM, Peter Harkins wrote: > On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 12:47:58PM -0500, Peter Fitzgibbons wrote: > > I'm trying to get the stub_render in the following post to work. > > > > stub_render(:partial => 'pages/foo', :layout => 'bar', :locals => {:f => > }) > > The error is that you don't assign a value to :f in the :locals hash. > Based on the rest of the message, it looks like you want to write: > > stub_render(:partial => 'pages/foo', :layout => 'bar', :locals => {:f => > f}) > > > -- > Peter Harkins - http://push.cx - http://NearbyGamers.com > > > _______________________________________________ > ChicagoGroup-Members-List at rubyforge.org > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/chicagogroup-members-list > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From ph at malaprop.org Thu Aug 14 16:02:29 2008 From: ph at malaprop.org (Peter A. Harkins) Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2008 15:02:29 -0500 (CDT) Subject: [Chirb] Mocking render :partial w/ options In-Reply-To: <670a00380808141224x51e5b75t982452cc55ba7359@mail.gmail.com> References: <670a00380808141047i10990190n43eddcde80cfa6bc@mail.gmail.com> <20080814175918.GA6937@malaprop.org> <670a00380808141224x51e5b75t982452cc55ba7359@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <50393.12.47.123.121.1218744149.squirrel@webmail.malaprop.org> > The issue I'm having, along with others that have blogged/posted about > this, > is that the FormBuilder instance passed in the stub_render is not the same > object as the one generated inside the view, which causes the stub_render > to > not match the given parameters. Ah, I see, I should've read closer. I've pondered it for a minute, but I'm not familiar with stub_render and don't have enough experience with Mocha/Rspec to answer your question. I can give one suggestion, which is that you could, in your test, tell mocha to stub the render call by doing something like: @controller.expects(:render).returns("foo") You couldn't do the .with(:partial => 'pages/foo' ...) if you don't already have that FormBuilder object, but it's at least a step in the right direction. Best of luck with your problem. From jason at hostedlabs.com Fri Aug 15 09:02:22 2008 From: jason at hostedlabs.com (Jason Rexilius) Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2008 08:02:22 -0500 Subject: [Chirb] BARcamping in 26 hours Message-ID: <48A57E5E.2050600@hostedlabs.com> Hey Everyone! We are starting set-up this evening and BARcamp officially starts 11:00 Saturday morning! Some photos of the venue have been uploaded, kegs are on the way, food is being ordered. Crazy, but its all coming together. Saturday 10:00am August 16th at 1240 W Harrison, Chicago IL. http://barcampchicago.com/ The Erlang Workshop starts at noon and kicks off a weekend long Erlang code competition. There are, as always, some great talks planned and even more great talks that aren't planned ;-) Thanks to the organizers and sponsors for making this happen! Look forward to seeing you all this weekend. -jason From dave.hoover at gmail.com Mon Aug 25 07:28:36 2008 From: dave.hoover at gmail.com (Dave Hoover) Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2008 06:28:36 -0500 Subject: [Chirb] Strangling a Java Webapp with Rails at PPoC Message-ID: <11c8704e0808250428g4b3a8659q7288ffe1a4ef2a24@mail.gmail.com> I thought people from these groups would be interested in this talk by Tyler Jennings on Thursday. http://polyglotprogrammers.com/usa/illinois/chicago/ Strangling a Java Webapp with Rails The strangler software pattern gets its name from the tree-strangling vines of the Amazon rain forest. These seemingly benign vines grow up the trunk of an established tree and over many years the tree is systematically consumed and destroyed, leaving a magnificent growth of vines where the tree once stood. The pattern that is the software equivalent of the vine helps a code base transition from an old crusty architecture by systematically replacing it. The cardinal rule being that new code cannot call into the old, only the other way around. If a new feature requires behavior from the old code, the old code must be ported. With JRuby enabling Rails on the JVM a similar approach can be taken. A java web application framework stack, let's say Struts and Hibernate, can have its view components systematically replaced by Rails without ever stopping new feature development. With Struts consumed we can set our sights on the model - systematically replacing Java classes with Ruby ones and Hibernate persisted objects with ActiveRecord models. Eventually leaving us with a super-productive, magnificent, Rails ecosystem to live within. This talk will cover JRuby integration with Java and running Rails in the JVM, concluding with the port of a simple Struts / Hibernate app to Rails. The audience should leave with all the knowledge necessary to port their own applications to Rails. Best, Dave Hoover //obtiva: Agility applied. Software delivered. From peter.fitzgibbons at gmail.com Thu Aug 28 14:25:50 2008 From: peter.fitzgibbons at gmail.com (Peter Fitzgibbons) Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2008 13:25:50 -0500 Subject: [Chirb] activerecord-sqlserver-adapter on R. 2.1 from Linux-Ubuntu-8.04 In-Reply-To: <670a00380808281029t7df52035kef2e462a792a8161@mail.gmail.com> References: <670a00380808281029t7df52035kef2e462a792a8161@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <670a00380808281125r6159f877u5bf678ebe42e92c4@mail.gmail.com> Hello All, I have odbc connection working from Ubuntu to sqlserver pfitzgibbo at pfitzgibbo-2:~$ isql SQLServer username password +---------------------------------------+ | Connected! | | | | sql-statement | | help [tablename] | | quit | | | +---------------------------------------+ SQL> select * from ping; +--------------+-------------------------+-----------+ | ApplicationID| LastPing | LastAction| +--------------+-------------------------+-----------+ | 1 | 2008-08-28 02:22:38.357 | 3 | [... snip ...] +--------------+-------------------------+-----------+ SQLRowCount returns 25 25 rows fetched SQL> quit When I query that table from script/console : pfitzgibbo at pfitzgibbo-2:~/atgwork/sqltest$ script/console Loading development environment (Rails 2.1.0) >> Ping.find(:first) ActiveRecord::StatementInvalid: ArgumentError: wrong number of arguments (1 for 2): SELECT cols.COLUMN_NAME as ColName, cols.COLUMN_DEFAULT as DefaultValue, cols.NUMERIC_SCALE as numeric_scale, cols.NUMERIC_PRECISION as numeric_precision, cols.DATA_TYPE as ColType, cols.IS_NULLABLE As IsNullable, COL_LENGTH(cols.TABLE_NAME, cols.COLUMN_NAME) as Length, COLUMNPROPERTY(OBJECT_ID(cols.TABLE_NAME), cols.COLUMN_NAME, 'IsIdentity') as IsIdentity, cols.NUMERIC_SCALE as Scale FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.COLUMNS cols WHERE cols.TABLE_NAME = 'Ping' from /home/pfitzgibbo/atgwork/sqltest/vendor/rails/activerecord/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/abstract_adapter.rb:147:in `log' from /home/pfitzgibbo/atgwork/sqltest/vendor/gems/activerecord-sqlserver-adapter-1.0.0.9250/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/sqlserver_adapter.rb:289:in `columns' from /home/pfitzgibbo/atgwork/sqltest/vendor/gems/activerecord-sqlserver-adapter-1.0.0.9250/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/sqlserver_adapter.rb:610:in `get_special_columns' from /home/pfitzgibbo/atgwork/sqltest/vendor/gems/activerecord-sqlserver-adapter-1.0.0.9250/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/sqlserver_adapter.rb:618:in `repair_special_columns' from /home/pfitzgibbo/atgwork/sqltest/vendor/gems/activerecord-sqlserver-adapter-1.0.0.9250/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/sqlserver_adapter.rb:536:in `select' from /home/pfitzgibbo/atgwork/sqltest/vendor/rails/activerecord/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/abstract/database_statements.rb:7:in `select_all_without_query_cache' from /home/pfitzgibbo/atgwork/sqltest/vendor/rails/activerecord/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/abstract/query_cache.rb:61:in `select_all' from /home/pfitzgibbo/atgwork/sqltest/vendor/rails/activerecord/lib/active_record/base.rb:582:in `find_by_sql' from /home/pfitzgibbo/atgwork/sqltest/vendor/rails/activerecord/lib/active_record/base.rb:1341:in `find_every' from /home/pfitzgibbo/atgwork/sqltest/vendor/rails/activerecord/lib/active_record/base.rb:1303:in `find_initial' from /home/pfitzgibbo/atgwork/sqltest/vendor/rails/activerecord/lib/active_record/base.rb:534:in `find' from (irb):1 >> q database.yml development: adapter: sqlserver mode: odbc username: username password: password dsn: SQLServer host: 'srv-tset' Anyone have an idea what is wrong with my setup ? Thanks, Peter Fitzgibbons (847) 687-7646 Email: peter.fitzgibbons at gmail.com IM GTalk: peter.fitzgibbons IM Yahoo: pjfitzgibbons IM MSN: pjfitzgibbons at hotmail.com IM AOL: peter.fitzgibbons at gmail.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From peter.fitzgibbons at gmail.com Fri Aug 29 14:09:42 2008 From: peter.fitzgibbons at gmail.com (Peter Fitzgibbons) Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2008 13:09:42 -0500 Subject: [Chirb] Roll-call : activerecord-sqlserver-adapter maintainer ? In-Reply-To: <670a00380808291109k79c72404ldafd1596a007bd8d@mail.gmail.com> References: <670a00380808291109k79c72404ldafd1596a007bd8d@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <670a00380808291109r729da0c2pb6eaba65d9c491e3@mail.gmail.com> Hello, Would the maintainer of activerecord-sqlserver-adapter please step forward. (everyone else, you may exercise the option to take one step back :) Thank you! 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