[Rails] Pull tweets into application

2010-11-14 Thread northband
Anyone know the best way to incorporate tweets into an application automatically? Meaning search the Twitter API and pull in matches into my app w/o having to go to Twitter and do the manual authorization. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Ruby on

[Rails] Re: Pull tweets into application

2010-11-14 Thread northband
Cool - I'll try it out. I was wondering if whether I would have to do any authentication just to pull in tweets. Thanks for the lead. On Nov 14, 11:53 pm, Arailsdemo A. li...@ruby-forum.com wrote: Have you checked out the Twitter gem?https://github.com/jnunemaker/twitter To pull your tweets,

[Rails] Immediate opening for a skilled RoR developer

2010-10-05 Thread northband
Seeking honest, efficient, and productive candidates. Located in the Detroit, MI area, however will consider telecommute based upon communication and performance. We are only looking for candidates that can deliver the goods. Please send resume, experience/samples of your work. Contact Adam ~

[Rails] SMS service

2010-04-21 Thread Northband
What's a good SMS service to use? I want to start sending messages from my apps via SMS. Thanks! -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Ruby on Rails: Talk group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-t...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from

[Rails] Re: SMS service

2010-04-21 Thread Northband
Thanks so much - looks like I found what I was looking for. On Apr 21, 7:09 pm, Andrew C. andrew.c...@gmail.com wrote: Doesn't get any easier than Twilio. On Apr 21, 9:21 am, Northband a...@machinetools.com wrote: What's a good SMS service to use?   I want to start sending messages

[Rails] Suggestion for how to batch add records photos

2009-10-11 Thread northband
Hi - I'm about to embark on a project where a client will upload a csv file of records (anywhere from 10-1000). Each record can have one or multiple files. I am reaching out to the community for some ideas on how to approach this. I'm wondering if I should have an ftp portion - where they ftp

[Rails] Consensus on SSL - what's everyone using?

2009-07-25 Thread northband
Hi - I need to use SSL in certain areas of my app. I have read about ssl_required via the 'book' and online: http://github.com/rails/ssl_requirement/tree/master It looks like what I need and want. However, I read that it may have issues with Nginx and that it may have loopholes in regards to

[Rails] attachment_fu :partition = lamda {}

2009-07-16 Thread northband
Hi - I am trying to dynamically create my partition folders via attachment_fu. I have read about a hack that allows you to do this on the attachment model: :partition = lambda {|a| a.article_id} Which passes the model's object into the lambda and uses the 'article_id' attribute as its

[Rails] Email photo to upload

2009-04-17 Thread northband
Hi - I am curious has anyone worked on a project where you emailed a photo to your app - which then takes the attached image and attaches it to your account? For instance, I have a photo gallery that I want to send images from my cellphone to. I need to authenticate that the email came from

[Rails] Modify select_year()

2009-03-11 Thread northband
Hi - Does anyone know how to add a selection to this helper: -- select_year(date, options = {}, html_options = {}) -- I would like to precede it with 'Select a year' just as I would if I were using .unshift. Right now the control is fully populated from start to end year. Any ideas

[Rails] Regular Expression question

2009-02-27 Thread northband
Hi - I would like to use gsub() to strip decimals with trailing zeros from a string. My string looks like this: -- 19.0 / 482.600 mm -- I would like to end up with this: -- 19 / 482.6 mm -- Anyone have a regular expression that can do this? Thanks!

[Rails] Remove trailing zeros

2009-02-26 Thread northband
Hi - I am working with floats and am wondering how I can trim the decimal and trailing zeros on my whole numbers. For instance, whole numbers are being displayed as 1.0, 2.0, 3.0, etc... I would like to remove the decimal and any trailing zeros with out effecting other non-whole number floats

[Rails] Create nested hash from array of objects

2009-02-19 Thread northband
Hi - What is the best way to create a nested hash from an array of objects? Here's what I'm trying to do, take my array of objects and use the attribute 'position' as a key for each nested hash. The nested hash will contain the other array attributes. Example: [#Spec id: 4057, position: 1,

[Rails] Interpolation

2009-02-17 Thread northband
Hi - I am adding a series of records within a for loop using i as my counter. Rather than hard code the model attributes I would like to dynamically create them. Here's what I'm trying to do: I have several fields on my example model named such as: spec_1_english spec_2_english etc... This

[Rails] Re: Interpolation

2009-02-17 Thread northband
Excellent - this worked great. Another tool for me to use. You're correct l. was an error on my part in my snippet. Thanks Craig On Feb 18, 12:15 am, Craig Demyanovich cdemyanov...@gmail.com wrote: You could use #send. Try something like this: (0..2).each do |i|