[rails-oceania] PartyCloud

Hi all! It's been a while since @whatupdave, @cjwoodward and infected Railscamp Melbourne with our multiplayer game, Brains. Since then @whatupdave and I have moved to the US of A and have been working on a little something called PartyCloud[1]. It's a Heroku-like platform built specifically fo

Re: [rails-oceania] Best way to do Github-style URLS (/user/repo)

I guess a helper feels a bit restrictive to me. I guess ideally it should just work like regular routes. The object has all the information it needs to generate a valid route. Also I've got a bunch of URLs for other actions like: [:branch, repo] Helpers would get really complicated in that

[rails-oceania] Best way to do Github-style URLS (/user/repo)

Hello friends! What is the current state of the art when trying to construct nice nested URLs? Don't know what I mean? Check out these bad boys: github.com/chrislloyd github.com/chrislloyd/brains Say I was building Github (I'm not!), I'd really just like to link_to @repo rather than e

[rails-oceania] Re: Current Amazon AMIs of choice

t; On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 10:57 AM, Ivan Vanderbyl > wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > Hi Chris, > > > I'm using the latest Ubuntu 10.10 images from > >http://uec-images.ubuntu.com/releases/maverick/release/ > > > Seems to be setup quite nicely and ha

[rails-oceania] Current Amazon AMIs of choice

I've been slow to catch onto this whole "cloud" thing and it seems like every man and his dog has their own virtual images. There were 6077 EC2 community images at last count! For those who use EC2 (or an AMI compatible cloud provider) which ones do you use? -- You received this message because y

[rails-oceania] Re: How does the new Google images work?

On Aug 20, 3:52 am, Mike Bailey wrote: > You have to know when to use it though. :-) For the record it's good to remember that data-uris base64 encode the data so there is a 33% size increase. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby or Rails Oceania"

[rails-oceania] Re: How does the new Google images work?

On Aug 18, 2:44 pm, Dylan Fogarty-MacDonald wrote: > You could achieve something like this with CSS and no JavaScript: Google's implementation is actually quite a bit more complicated and subtle than what anybody has suggested so far. I suspect that these smaller details were why you were blown a

[rails-oceania] Re: gnu screen and textmate

On May 19, 11:18 am, Mark Ryall wrote: > I use it in presentations to avoid forcing everyone to sit there watching my > inability to type. It's usually much cooler than anything I then go on to > present.   It's a kind of awkward textmate equivalent of emacs SLIME. As has been mentioned, you ma

[rails-oceania] Re: Sydney Meetup: Tomorrow (Tuesday, May 11 at 7pm)

For prosperity's sake, my talk isn't so much on OMeta anymore as it is "Failing Exams: The definitive guide". I'm going to give an overview of some cool ideas that I've been learning at Uni over the years. Expect the goss on "PMBOK" (the new Agile), how to use UML to manage your Rails apps complexi

[rails-oceania] Re: Last night's meet up

On Apr 14, 11:17 pm, Gregory McIntyre wrote: > Can we tee totaller Rails devs trade beers for like... um... chocolate > bars, or some thing cool and unrelated to beer? As a community we arn't bar-ist. Indulge in any kind of bar you like! However, if you come talking about the merits of PHP, Java

[rails-oceania] Re: Sydney: Request: Call for Talks! (rorosyd April 13)

I'd like to do a talk on OMeta/PEG parsing with CoffeeScript and Node. It'll probably be a precursor to something more hands on that I'll do at Railscamp. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby or Rails Oceania" group. To post to this group, send email

Re: [rails-oceania] Readable regular expressions

On 17 February 2010 16:23, Josh Price wrote: > I hope to give a lightning talk on this very topic at the next Sydney RORO. Lightning talk on Treetop? I'm sure you could fill a full talk ;) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby or Rails Oceania" gr

Re: [rails-oceania] Printing Ruby on Rails Source Code

On 12 February 2010 14:52, Anthony Richardson wrote: > I don't know the answer sorry but the mind boggles as to why anyone > would want to do that? In Coders at Work, Peter Norvig recalled working on an interpreter. To refractor it he printed out all the code, took it to a cabin for a week

Re: [rails-oceania] Your favourite Ruby development setup

On a similar topic, http://usesthis.com is pretty interesting. Not specifically Rails, though there are a couple of Rails devs on there. The interviewer, @waferbaby, is coming to Railscamp Canberra. Chris 2010/1/22 David Parry > On 22/01/2010, at 12:59 PM, Anders Østergaard Jensen wrote: > > Wh

Re: [rails-oceania] require File.join(File.dirname(__FILE__), 'foo')

2009/12/23 Josh Price > That would be *awesome*. > Here's an early Christmas present. module Kernel alias :plain_require :require def require(file) if file.is_a?(String) plain_require File.expand_path(File.join(File.dirname(caller.first.split(':').first), file)) else pl

Re: [rails-oceania] require File.join(File.dirname(__FILE__), 'foo')

2009/12/23 Tim Lucas > It'd be nice if Kernel#require detected "./" or ".." at the start, > similar to node.js > I can only dream about require one day working like: require :spec_helper# Uses $: require '../spec_helper' # Path relative to __FILE__ Unfortunately require is a global functio

[rails-oceania] Re: Action/Active naming convention

2009/10/29 Dave Bolton > ActiveRecord is based on a Martin Fowler pattern, I believe (can't > remember the book, was it Enterprise Patterns?). Whereas the Action > in ActionController is just a common term for web development... > "actions" were used in Struts and probably many other web framewo

[rails-oceania] Action/Active naming convention

Hi, This has been bugging me for a while: why is there a difference in the Action/Active naming convention that Rails uses? Why is there ActiveRecord and ActionController? Why not ActionRecord or ActiveController? Neither Action or Active are particularly descriptive. I tried Googling but nothing

[rails-oceania] RUBYOPT env var

Hi, For those of you who can't remember what Myles and Richard were talking about at the recent Sydney meetup, the environment variable mentioned was RUBYOPT. It should be set to "rubygems". You can read why here. I also suggest setting it i

[rails-oceania] Re: fish and rvm

Use Python. *ducks* 2009/9/2 Bodaniel Jeanes > r similar, it becomes a nightmare to ensure fish users get all the benefit. > I can see why the script isn't written in ruby (since the ruby environment > will constantly be changing DUE to rvm), but I don't like that it is bash. > That being said,

[rails-oceania] Re: fish and PATH

2009/9/1 Mark Ryall > The other thing i'd really like to be able to do is to execute something to > populate an environment variable > Use (). set -x FOO (cat foo.pid) Chris -- chrislloyd.com.au --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are s

[rails-oceania] Next Werewolf Night

Hi, Just quickly, the next Werewolf meetup is coming up at 7pm on Saturday the 5th of September. We are meeting at the Sydney Uni Quad this time so the atmosphere will be mouth-watering. For the full details have a look at the site: http://werewolfnight.org/ See you guys there, Chris -- chrisll

[rails-oceania] Re: Ruby on Rails on Trails call to action

I'm down for the Spring Cycle but haven't got my number yet. I've never ridden that far on any kind of a bike, so that should be interesting. See you guys there! Chris 2009/8/23 Lachie > > I've got bib #57 on the Spring Cycle... see you there! > > The gong ride is a bit much for me at this stage

[rails-oceania] Werewolf night in Sydney

23c21696bdd If you are interested, subscribe to the other list for more updates/further discussion. It will be a fun night for you (and your partners) and great opportunity to practice for Railscamp. Cheers, Chris Lloyd -- chrislloyd.com.au --~--~-~--~~~---~--~---

[rails-oceania] Re: Next Sydney Meetup, Tuesday August 11?

+1 couchdb. 2009/7/28 Matt Allen > CouchDB please ... these schemaless scalable storage options > are starting to get very interesting. > Matta > > > On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 5:41 PM, Lachie wrote: > >> >> I'd like to talk on either chef or couchdb. Anyone gotta hankering for >> either of those?

[rails-oceania] Re: Ruby Javascript minifier

2009/7/14 Brian Chiha > I'm at the tail end of an RoR project with a heap of Javascript files > (ExtJS). Has anyone used a JS Minifier written in Ruby (Preferable), > that can minify and join files? We use Deprec, so getting in working > via a release shouldn't be a hassle... > Brian, The onl

[rails-oceania] Re: Melbourne Meetup Thursday 25th of June - Thoughtworks

2009/6/29 Clifford Heath > I love the way your brain works. > Please, don't feed the ego. Chris --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby or Rails Oceania" group. To post to this group, send email to r

[rails-oceania] Re: DNS service for Heroku

2009/6/19 Gus Gollings > I've been using http://www.zoneedit.com/ for this kind of thing for > about ten years - it's a very good service (but the interface is > hilariously old fashioned). +1 on zoneedit.com. Pat recommended them to me a few months ago and they've been really good. Chris -- c

[rails-oceania] Re: Fixed by TextMate 2

Ah nuts. I just got off the phone: TM2 might be a little late to the party. 2009/6/17 Cameron Barrie > > booze provided by textmate2? > > > On 17/06/2009, at 12:57 PM, Lincoln Stoll wrote: > > > > > y > > > > On 17/06/2009, at 2:10 AM, Ryan Bigg wrote: > > > >> > >> I heard there's a party here?

[rails-oceania] Re: Thoughts on HAML?

2009/6/12 Bodaniel Jeanes > > You've hit the nail on the head IMO. If your designers can code and aren't > afraid of some if statements etc in the code and like HAML, then it's win > win win for everybody. Give your designers access to the repo, and let them > have at your views directly. That is

[rails-oceania] Re: Thoughts on HAML?

Perhaps checkout the html2haml and css2sass programs which are packaged with HAML. 2009/6/12 Bodaniel Jeanes > Advantages: > * easy to change and manage templates > * no ugly erb snippets everywhere with conditional statements > * much better in diffs > > Disadvantages > > IMO, one reaaly bi

[rails-oceania] Re: Railscamp #5 BLAST

On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 4:39 PM, Nigel Rausch wrote: > We can even have a bomb-fire !!! > Sounds dangerous! Chris -- chrislloyd.com.au --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby or Rails Oceania" group

[rails-oceania] Re: Your favourite ruby idioms?

Julio, my man, you have just inspired me to learn Perl. That is awesome. I personally love the Hash syntax. { 'start' => 'end' }.each{|target, destination| `ln -s #{target} #{destination}` } { Klass => :method }.collect{|k,m| k.send(m) } It's just a beautiful way of signifying all sorts of t

[rails-oceania] Re: Warewolf next Friday

9 at 1:21 PM, Carl Woodward wrote: > >> >> Its cold and looking like rain. Is warewolf on? >> >> On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 9:33 PM, Chris Lloyd >> wrote: >> > Actually, sorry. Scratch that. If it's raining we'll have to call it off >> and >> > d

[rails-oceania] Re: Warewolf next Friday

2009 at 8:31 PM, Chris Lloyd wrote: > Wet weather is at my apartment, a short walk away. Might be a bit cramped, > but we have underground parking. > > -- > +614 2412 1343 > chrislloyd.com.au > > > > On 12/02/2009, at 7:31 PM, Lachie wrote: > > >> Hey Wol

[rails-oceania] Re: Warewolf next Friday

dogs. > > :lachie > http://smartbomb.com.au > http://www.flickr.com/photos/lachie/ > > > > On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 7:19 PM, Chris Lloyd > wrote: >> Hey all, >> So after the last Railscamp and OSDC I'm guessing a few Rails-y >> people like &

[rails-oceania] Re: Last night's Sinatra preso: slides and link love

BTW, the RDoc template Sinatra uses: http://github.com/mislav/hanna On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 12:08 PM, Tim Lucas wrote: > > Thanks to everyone who rocked out at the Sydney RORO meetup last night. > > The slides for my lightning presentation on Sinatra can be found here: > http://www.slideshare.net

[rails-oceania] Re: Design.

On Sun, Feb 8, 2009 at 2:20 PM, Nathan de Vries wrote: > Nothing beats a reading a little bit about colour theory, but if > you're short of time and you use OS X you should check out Color > Schemer Studio [1]. I've found these DVD's really good for explaining colour theory and light. If you ha

[rails-oceania] Re: Warewolf next Friday

n 06/02/2009, at 3:40 PM, Carl Woodward wrote: > > > > > Hey mate, > > > > I'm in. > > > > Cheers, > > Carl. > > > > On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 7:19 PM, Chris Lloyd > > wrote: > >> Hey all, > >> So after the last Railscamp

[rails-oceania] Warewolf next Friday

Hey all, So after the last Railscamp and OSDC I'm guessing a few Rails-y people like to play Warewolf. I've been dying to play again. If you don't know what Warewolf is, have a read on Wikipedia. A full moon is on next Tuesday*, but I think the Warewolves

[rails-oceania] Re: Design.

http://www.rosenfeldmedia.com/books/webforms/ An extremely good book on form design (and everything surrounding it). I highly recommend it. It doesn't go into CSS, or markup or such, but it has lots of little nuggets. Chris On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 3:31 PM, Nathan de Vries wrote: > > On 04/02/200

[rails-oceania] Dev available!

y of NSW) If you want to have a look at some of my open source code you can do so at github.com/chrislloyd. Email me for a resume. Cheers! Chris Lloyd -- +614 2412 1343 Website: chrislloyd.com.au --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are

[rails-oceania] Re: Film presentations?

r) just let me know & >> I'll help get you set up. >> >> If you'd like to produce a different intro or whatever, a roro logo >> kit is here http://rails-oceania.googlegroups.com/web/roro_logo_pack.zip >> >> :lachie >> http://smartbomb.com.au

[rails-oceania] Re: Film presentations?

Hey, I'm not sure if this was on the main list or just the organiser list but I've volunteered to put together the Sydney videos ala. confreaks. It should take a couple of days after the next meetup (assuming everything goes well, which it won't, so realistically it'll be a week) to get a video up.

[rails-oceania] Re: happy movember

My dad didn't start shaving till he was 30. Feel free to sponsor me for my 5-o-clock-shadow-vember. http://au.movember.com/mospace/1796156 Chris! On 02/11/2008, at 1:37 PM, Lachie wrote: I fixed it, yay. See, here's my mofacet: http://au.movember.com/mospace/1466336 :D :lachie http://sm

[rails-oceania] Re: rspec performance (was Re: Last night's Cucumbers & Factory Girls preso)

On 10/10/2008, at 10:46 AM, Nathan de Vries <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 2008-10-10 at 10:32 +1100, Chris Lloyd wrote: >> If there is something wrong with your db it'll cause all your specs >> to >> fail, but not for the reason they should be failing. &

[rails-oceania] Re: rspec performance (was Re: Last night's Cucumbers & Factory Girls preso)

Testing the db just adds another layer which you can't control. If there is something wrong with your db it'll cause all your specs to fail, but not for the reason they should be failing. All the ActiveRecord db stuff has been already tested in the Rails code so there is really no reason to

[rails-oceania] Re: good wireless venue in sydney?

Gloria Jeans mightn't have the best coffee (its not bad, though go to Campos if you want the good stuff) but they don't really care about how long you use the wireless (despite the notice on the wall). There is always lots of people with laptops there enjoying the comfy seating. A few seats