Posted by Codejoy
Thu, 01 Feb 2007 15:52:00 GMT
Finally, got rails and ruby and rflickr and RMagick all playing nice together... it took a bit but in the end I got it done. The drawinports way is the way I chose, and it worked well. The process is roughly like:
Use the MacOS X cd's to install the X11SDK package, and then the x11 package. This package (the x11 one) is hard to find, its on the cd in the "other packages" .mpkg file. Though I don't have the cd on me now so let me double check that name.
After thats done, you can get darwinports and follow the instructions here:
http://blog.nanorails.com/articles/2006/07/11/installing-rails-on-mac-os-x-tiger
A few gotcha's with RMagick, if you install it with the gem apparently you need to use:
require 'rubygems' before the
require 'RMagick'
Then you can install rflickr by calling:
sudo gem install rflickr --remote
and
Instead of:
require_gem 'rflickr'
do
require 'flickr'
as per here:
http://rubyforge.org/forum/forum.php?thread_id=11449&forum_id=4256
So all that to say I now have Ruby On Rails working with RadRails on my macOSX tiger intel core 2 duo. w00t
Posted in Rails, Ruby, MacOS X | Tags macos, radrails, rails, ruby, success, x, x11 | no comments
Posted by Codejoy
Sat, 20 Jan 2007 21:51:00 GMT
I am finally getting serious about Ruby, and Rails as i just went out and bought the book "Ruby for Rails". So far I am not that far into it, but I have my rails environment set up on my Ubuntu install, and once my macbook gets in there too. The most important Gems I use when using Ruby is:
The RMagick gem (image manipulation)
and the rFlickr gem (flickr API gem).
I have a few flickr toy ideas ruminating in my head so I will have to start seriously to get to coding on this. I have decided of all the web technologies out there, Rails is the one I want to become pro on. This is a hard choice, as I most likely will not use it at work ever (they are mostly JSF). Such is life...choose life, choose rails.
Posted in Rails, Ruby | Tags JSF, rails, ruby, Ruby for Rails | no comments
Posted by Codejoy
Thu, 16 Nov 2006 17:22:00 GMT
Introducing the
Nabaztag. How can I explain this, it seems like a wiFi enabled internet smart capable web toy. Rabbit more correctly. Its cute, almost cuddly and smart. What does this have to do with ruby on rails ?? well apparently the api is a well documented RESTful API service. The best part is? There is a ruby module
Nabaztag 0.1 released for it. That is just cool! I need to get my hands on a developmental version of this right away!
Posted in Ruby | Tags api, nabaztag, restful, ruby | no comments
Posted by Codejoy
Tue, 01 Aug 2006 20:45:00 GMT
Well I think it is official, I like this "Lush" Theme the best for my blog. I might be editing it in the future, adding my own bit of flare (mostly a thomasonrails log?) but as far as teh functionality of it all, its one of the best Typo Themes I have seen IMHO.
On the ruby front, Warholit is not quite ready yet. It is up here at:
http://www.thomasonrails.com/warholit/, but it is for some reason still erroring out when you try to "Warhol It!" an image. Working on this now. I have to say thouhg that Hostingrails.com has been a top notch web host and most helfpul in their support area for getting me set up and going.
On the ruby front, my next flickr toy might of been deflated before it started. Apparently I think "easy" projects I pick are easy till I investigate them further and it seems that it is hard to do any kind of automatically (i.e. algorithmic based) image manipulation of any fun kind (That is an art style). I wanted to build a flickr toy that automatically does some cross-colorization for you, but this is proving difficult at best, if flat out "impossible".
Posted in Ruby, Hacks | Tags hostingrails, lush, rails, ruby, theme, warholit | no comments
