14 Apr 2006
Sebastian Kanthak on Plugging in with FileColumn
Making file uploads easy
- opinions: files should be in filesystem, not blobs
- it would be nice to to something about the file if validation fails
- FileColumn does this
- can be expanded for more than imagesbl
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14 Apr 2006
Jeremy Voorhis on Internationalizing Rails
- Standard talk on I10N, I18L stuff here
- can localize view, model
- install plugin
- rake globalize:setup
- in models we “translates :fieldname”
- lot’s of details I’m sure you can pick up in the API docs
Jeremy’s Blog
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14 Apr 2006
Generating Great Graphs with Ruby on Rails
sounds great for my Trac clone and a burndown chart
- shows off GNUPlot
- GNUPlot in gems
- MRPlot
- His experience w/ graphs in ruby started doing sparklines
- Now working on Gruff
- An example: The FU tour
- If you write that missing library you too can be famous
- shows how to use send_data and caches_page to cache, then about routes to get this right. Borrrring
- has a site that uses the graphing stuff Rough Underbelly
- css_graphs css only graphs
- rails.techno-weenie.com
- gave a lot of cool looking graphs/graphic effects that people have done on different sites.
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14 Apr 2006
James Adam on Engines: Team Development with Rails
- works at a media buying company, a service. Not building anything that will be sold. Dev for many clients simultaneously.
- see the same needs across the clients
- deals with the most boring problems over and over
- reuse code when it solves the same problem, not when it looks for.
- these applications are not beautiful and unique snowflakes (_this joke is even better than you think because he looks like brad pitt_)
- Generators vs. Engines. _He talked for a while about this which I learned on the Engines Intro
- Use svn:external to keep engines up to date.
- “it is fun to use ruby for evil”
- engines are plugins but a tiny more that they found useful.
- a way to share MVC slices between apps
Last night I ate at a Brazilian place with 30 or so Railers. They serve meat on a sword. So he added refs to MeatSword here and there in his slides, including MeatSword.com…. which is a pr0n site… hilarity ensues when someone mentions he visited the URL in a Q&A and everyone loads it in to see for themselves
- wants happy coexistence with Rails Core
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