Now steriods in Plugins…

Wow cool idea … And the plugin i am talking bout seems promising too. The plugin of the day for me is acts_as_taggable_on_steroids. The writer says it enhances acts_as_taggable by DHH with features like Caching and tagcloud calcultions. Although i could not use it till now, but i m planning to check it out in my new project as soon as the first phase completes which seems to be very near

Vinsol Spreading Wings:Part 2

Few months back i have made a post about Vinsol acquiring new heights by organizing workshop in Universities like DEI. This time Vinsol has started a new trend with arranging monthly Ruby/Rails Meetups in Delhi. The next meetup is on 9th of August with some very interesting sessions registered on solr, metaprogramming in Ruby and Rspec. Hope it to be great success. Cheers Team

Team Work: A key to success

You will say whats new in this… everybody know that working in teams is lot more effective then working individually. Well i must say i am not going to write anything new but what i am writing here are the points which everyone knows but only few of us follows. The success of a team depends totally on the attitude of team members. I just want to highlight some points to remember as a member of an agile team…

Learn to Listen

Want people to listen to you…then first start listening to them.

Criticize idea not People

If there’s a substantial risk that you will be ridiculed or that you’ll lose face for suggesting an idea, you won’t be inclined to offer another suggestion.


Only outcome is important not credit/blame

In the end only result is what is worth so individual credit/blame are all exercise to kill precious time actually.

Quick fixes become Quicksand

As said above outcome is important.A minor quick fix can revert the whole result in a big picture.Never ever go for it.

Understand Pareto’s Principle

Pareto’s Principle, the 80/20 Rule, should serve as a daily reminder to focus 80 percent of your time and energy on the 20 percent of you work that is really important. Don’t just “work smart”, work smart on the right things.

In last Remember the team work’s motto “none of us is as good as all of us“.

See my favourite example of teamwork…

Vinsol:Spreading Wings

Few weeks before Vinsol has stepped into new a new phase of ROR encouragement. We had our first ever workshop on Ruby On Rails in an Institute. Vinsol organised an elaborated presentation on 17th March followed by a one day workshop the very next day.
The institute in picture here is DEI ie Dayalbagh Educational Institute, Agra, India. It was supposed to be such an overwhelming moment for me to present ROR in DEI as this institute has special place in my life.Yes i am a product of DEI itself and just luv everything about it like i do about Rails.
After completing my B.Sc+ M.Sc. from DEI, I always wished to stay in contact somehow. And recently when i visited My Dissertation Project Guide Dr.Gursaran and talked about Ruby On Rails I can see my dream turn into reality. He was so much interested when i proposed the idea of a presentation on ROR that he himself made it a point to organize it. Thanks a lot to him for making it a success.
I was not able to go there due to preparations of another major event of my life ‘My Wedding’ . Even though i am happy as Akhil ,Sur and Hemant made a point to make it a success. They did a great job. With at lest 35 people attending the workshop and showing great interest i believe the future of Rails in DEI is bright.

We are getting tremendous response from the students the people are floored by capacity of Ruby+Rails and yes Sur’s charm also(he s getting lots of response from gals there ;)   ).

Web’s Horoscope for 2007

Richard MacManus, Ebrahim Ezzy, Emre Sokullu, Alex Iskold and Rudy De Waele have made predictions of the trends to be followed in 2007 by web community. You will see Web 2.0 in its full blow in 2007. Wanna see the web2.0 speeding towards web 3.0 … jus follow the latest drift this year. Read all the predictions here. I am looking forward for the year of Google, Seach 2.0, RSS and of course last but not the least Rails 1.2

Barcamp Delhi 2

Hmmm … my first Barcamp at delhi. And i feel great :). I enjoyed all the sessions there.Actually was expecting some more technical ones. Still was gr8 being there sharing new ideas and analysing different approaches.

I have taken some fotos for yesterday’s event .They are on flickr right now. Visit them now

m looking forward to see more.

Strange behaviour of respond_to in IE

In recent days i have monitored a very strange behaviour of respond_to in IE.I am sharing my experience in hope that somebody might explain it to me. As i cudnt find anything related to this from my best teacher google

I am using edge rails in one of my projects. some where in that i have used respond_to in following way…


def show
respond_to |format| do
format.js {render :partial=>’show’}
format.html {}
end
end


When i checked the response in firefox for html and xml both requests type, it was perfect. But when i checked html response in IE 6 creates a blunder :O.It was returning a js file with the javascript response.

But when i changed the code and placed the html call first and then checked xml call it worked fine in IE too.

def show
respond_to |format| do
format.html {}
format.js {render :partial=>’show’}
end
end


Now can somebody tell me why is this happening and anyone else faced this issue ever?

Ruby/Rails Music album

Its melodious …its amazing and i can keep humming one or other track all the time. Really i loved it

Chris has the music for Ruby/Rails Community.He calls is IRB Mix .Tape and its just fantastic.

Track 4 about sandboxing is just mind blowing…

$ ruby script/console –sandbox
Loading development environment in sandbox.
Any modifications you make will be rolled back on exit.

And Track 5 about underscore operator (_) .I hadnt found yet anything in irb giving the value of last evaluated expression in Ruby. But ‘_’ does this cake thing for me. Good job Chris

One more small thing that i learned from one of the comment….

>> 4*4
=> 16
>> 4**4
=> 256
>> 100**100**100
c:/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/rational.rb:543: warning: in a**b, b may be too big
=> Infinity
>>


Customized Ruby on Rails search engine

Accessing the full advantage of Google’s efforts on providing better life to web surfers, I have created a Ruby On Rails Search Engine using the Custom Search engine tool by Google.Its in initial stage i will explore and try to put it in some new form later sometime.

It searches in some listed blogs and famous sites on ruby and ruby on rails.Currently the list includes …

weblog.rubyonrails.org
wiki.rubyonrails.com
rituonrails.wordpress.com
webonrails.wordpress.com
fromdelhi.com
vinsol.com
rubyonrails.org
ajaxonrails.wordpress.com
del.icio.us/
www.rubycentral.org
www.rubycentral.com
www.ruby-lang.org
www.rubyonrails.com
nubyonrails.com
rubyforge.org
sitekreator.com/satishtalim/index.html
dec.orat.in/
den1jay.blogs.assembla.com/

If you are a ROR developer and have a blog that can be included in the list please feel free to contribute to this search engine. Although the contribution is open to all right now but i have to block it in some time if somebody try to use it in “a not so appropiate way “.As google still havnt given any way to moderate the list of contributions. I just hope Google will listen to our cries soon and respond to it

Till then Happy Googling for rails

Pdf-writer with login engine problem

If you are using pdf-writer with login engine, you can encounter a nasty problem with transactions in login engine like me(gosh… this was crazy). This is because login engine uses transaction-simple module (which is a part of transaction-simple by  Austin Ziegler but not the whole gem) included in rails 1.1 in active record.

While including pdf-writer it require the whole transaction-simple library.So in such a case the simple.rb file is required twice in the application.Which creates a problem in registration in login engine as it uses tranactions.

This ticket is discussed in here and a patch is also available…

http://dev.rubyonrails.org/ticket/4732

http://dev.rubyonrails.org/ticket/4932

Bad news is it can not be fixed before rails version 2 according to DHH ’s response[:(]