To break the language barrier and help promote the work of Spain-based Ruby(±Rails) developers by spreading the word about projects, gems, plugins, articles or other material created by its members, in the hope that they may find usefulness outside of the Spanish community.
Blog: finis.tumblr.com
Twitter: twitter.com/aitorgarciarey
Github: github.com/aitor
Projects: acts_as_abusable, acts_as_scribe, alea, legebiltzarra, meta_tags
Blog: blog.inbatu.com
Twitter: twitter.com/batu
Github: github.com/alvarobp
Projects: tvdb
Blog: 42linesofcode.com
Twitter: twitter.com/christos
Github: github.com/christos
Delicious: del.icio.us/christos
Projects: attribute_choices, remotable
Blog: thinkincode.net
Twitter: twitter.com/calavera
Github: github.com/calavera
Projects: Oos4ruby, Rake plugin for Hudson CI, Ruby metrics plugin for Hudson CI, The atom protocol exerciser, Trinidad
Blog: www.eparreno.com
Twitter: twitter.com/eparreno
Github: github.com/eparreno
Slideshare: slideshare.net/eparreno
Delicious: del.icio.us/emili
Projects: mysql_index_length, RubyRegex
Blog: ernesto-jimenez.com
Twitter: twitter.com/ernesto_jimenez
Github: github.com/ernesto-jimenez
Projects: Tractis Identity Verifications, tweeting_streambot
Blog: iamfelipe.com
Twitter: twitter.com/flype
Github: github.com/flype
Projects: stats_for_all
Blog: www.inwebwetrust.net
Twitter: twitter.com/ferblape
Github: github.com/ferblape
Projects: bb-ruby, cache_test, query_memcached, rnvivo
Blog: www.fernandoguillen.info
Twitter: twitter.com/fguillen
Github: github.com/fguillen
Delicious: del.icio.us/d2clon
Projects: EuRuKo2009 app, Geo Alertas, iPhone Verb Conjugations, jQuery Font Party, One of Zombies, The Phone Baptizer
Blog: francescesplugas.com/
Twitter: twitter.com/fesplugas
Github: github.com/fesplugas
Projects: Typus
Twitter: twitter.com/guillermooo
Github: github.com/guillermo
Projects: ActiveRecord#each, Groff
Blog: jaimeiniesta.com
Twitter: twitter.com/jaimeiniesta
Github: github.com/jaimeiniesta
Projects: MetaInspector, Planetoid
Blog: formatinternet.com/
Twitter: twitter.com/supercoco9
Github: github.com/javier
Projects: MailerTwitterable
Twitter: twitter.com/xuanxu
Github: github.com/xuanxu
Blog: www.lmcavalle.com
Twitter: twitter.com/cavalle
Github: github.com/cavalle
Projects: Mighty Associations, Persistize, Rack::UserAgent
Blog: marcelinollano.com
Twitter: twitter.com/marcelinollano
Github: github.com/marcelinollano
Blog: voodoorai2000.lacoctelera.net/
Twitter: twitter.com/voodoorai2000
Github: github.com/voodoorai2000
Blog: raul.murciano.net
Twitter: twitter.com/happywebcoder
Github: github.com/raul
Projects: ar_setter_filter, happywiki, sinatra_template, translate_routes
Blog: www.samlown.com/blog
Twitter: twitter.com/samlown
Github: github.com/samlown
Projects: translate_columns
Blog: spejman.blogspot.com
Twitter: twitter.com/spejman
Github: github.com/spejman
Projects: bn4r, Festival Text-To-Speech for Ruby, General genetic algorithms for Ruby, Rails Generator Generator
Blog: porras.lacoctelera.net
Twitter: twitter.com/porras
Github: github.com/porras
Projects: imdb, livevalidation, Mighty Associations, Persistize, Rack::UserAgent
Blog: www.hashref.com/
Twitter: twitter.com/fxn
Github: github.com/fxn
wiki.github.com/guillermo/active_record_each
Implements ActiveRecord::Base.each instance method to fetch one by one record for rails prior 2.2
github.com/linkingpaths/acts_as_abusable
Tiny plugin to mark any rails model instance as an abuse or site's community guideline violation.
(Developed for Linking Paths)
github.com/linkingpaths/acts_as_scribe
A simple plugin that allows to keep track of the users activity. Common uses could be user's wall, public timeline portlets, etc...
(Developed for Linking Paths)
Bringing random feelings to the Kernel since 2008.
(Developed for Linking Paths)
github.com/raul/ar_setter_filter
Plugin to add or chain filters to several ActiveRecord attribute setters at a time.
github.com/christos/attribute_choices
Map ActiveRecord attribute values to display values for consumption by humans
github.com/ferblape/cache_test/tree/master
Some assertions for testing that fragment cache, and action cache is generated or expired
www.fernandoguillen.info/en/web/projects.html#euruko2009
Collecting every lesson learned on the development of the Web application for the registration and talks administration for the Spanish Rails Conference 2008 I build a brand new web application from scratch. This time much more robust and modular, highly tested and integrated with PayPal for the management registration fees. Multi-event, multi-track.
This application has been released as open source and can be viewed and downloaded from this git repository.
Grateful to Raúl Murciano, Juanjo Bazán y Jaime Iniesta for their helpful cooperation.
Design, layout and a few other things by Marze.
github.com/spejman/festivaltts4r
Text to Speech system for Ruby using FestivalTTS
General Genetic Algorithm for Ruby is a Ruby Genetic Algorithm that is very simple to use.
www.fernandoguillen.info/en/web/petprojects.html#geo_alertas
This is another RoR experiment when my RoR knowledge was still green. Experimenting with simple Rails app, ajax, ...
Geo location, Google Maps, phone geolocation integration.
Groff template engine for rails. It generates PS or PDF from groff command.
www.fernandoguillen.info/en/web/petprojects.html#verb_conjugations
One friend of me said he missed a custom iphone application for answer for the spanish verb conjugations. He is english spoken but he is learning spanish. He said that with that kind of help he would be allowed to talk more intelligently.
So I decided to develop this application for him as a christmas present.
The first beta version was working on 3 hours.
It is a web application but try to looks like iPhone native one. Is not Rails but Sinatra. And the core of the application is a work of screen-scrapping another webs.
www.fernandoguillen.info/en/web/petprojects.html#font_party
JS library to convert normal text on image characters.
Experimental project. jQuery and javascript juggling.
github.com/probono/legebiltzarra
Eusko Legebiltzarra - Parlamento Vasco site ruby client.
github.com/porras/livevalidation
Client-side validations for Ruby on Rails (using javascript library livevalidation.com)
github.com/javier/mailer_twitterable
ActionMailer add-on to send twitts whenever a mail is delivered. Only selected ActionMailers will be twittered (depends on twitter gem). Work under progress
github.com/jaimeiniesta/metainspector
Ruby gem for web scraping purposes. It scrapes a given URL, and returns you its title, meta description, meta keywords, an array with all the links, all the images in it, etc.
github.com/linkingpaths/meta_tags
Get your xHTML meta tags in control.
(Developed for Linking Paths)
github.com/bebanjo/mighty_associations
Traversing superpowers for your ActiveRecord associations
github.com/eparreno/mysql_index_length
This Rails plugin adds support for index lengths on the MySQL adapter. With this plugin, you can specify easily index lengths in your migrations.
www.fernandoguillen.info/en/web/petprojects.html#on_of_zombies
This another experiment but this time not a web project but a game.
Ruby code using Gosu 2D game library.
Easy denormalization for your ActiveRecord models
github.com/jaimeiniesta/planetoid
A lightweight planet, without steroids. A Ruby on Rails application to build a planet for small communities of developers, aggregating blog feeds, twitts and projects.
github.com/ferblape/query_memcached/tree/master
A replacement for ActiveRecord query_cache that a adds a Memcache layer for persistence of the query's cache
github.com/bebanjo/rack-useragent
Rack Middleware for filtering by user agent
github.com/spejman/rails-generator-generator
A rails generator that generates a rails generator skeleton for easy creation of new rails generators. Like plugin generator but with generators.
thinkincode.net/2008/5/22/using-hudson-as-rails-ci-server
A Hudson's plugin that allows to execute Rake tasks as common build steps integrated in the server. It also allows to configure several ruby virtual machines to run these tasks in different environments.
An unobtrusive Javascript plugin for Rails 2.3, inspired by Rails 3.0
wiki.hudson-ci.org/display/HUDSON/Ruby+metrics+plugin
A Hudson's plugin that allows to montorize several ruby metrics' reports into the server like rcov or rails stats.
github.com/raul/sinatra_template
Template for medium-sized applications based on Sinatra.
github.com/flype/stats_for_all
Easy to use, scalable and elegant tracking stats plugin for your rails models
thinkincode.net/2008/7/2/the-ape-1-5-released
A tool to test your Atom Publishing Protocol server implementations.
www.fernandoguillen.info/en/web/petprojects.html#the_phone_baptizer
Tool to offer a possible system to remember easily a phone number. Background algorithm. Ajax.
This is another RoR experiment when my RoR knowledge was still green. Experimenting with simple Rails app, ajax, ...
The whole application need an improvement, from the algorithm until the test coverage.
github.com/tractis/tractis_identity_verifications
Tractis Identity Verifications provide you with a gateway to get your users real identity proven with their electronic certificates.
These custom gateways will request your users a certain set of attributes from their identity such as: name, birthdate, certificate issuer, etc… Your user will have to use an accepted certificate to proof this attributes. Example Given: one website will be able to get his users’ real name using Spain or Belgium eID cards.
github.com/samlown/translate_columns
The aim of the Translate Columns plugin is to aid the normally difficult task of supporting multiple languages in the models. It provides a near transparent interface to the data contained in the models and their translations such that your current controllers, views and models only need to be modified slightly to support multiple languages in a scalable fashion.
github.com/raul/translate_routes
Rails plugin to translate your URLs and routing helpers in a clean way.
Trinidad allows you to run rails applications within an embedded Tomcat container, just like you do with mongrel, webrick or jetty.
Ruby wrapper for accessing TV shows information from the TheTVDB API.
github.com/ernesto-jimenez/tweeting_streambot
This bot will track keywords using Twitter's Streaming API and re-tweet all the
tweets it finds.Ideal for conferences and events bots.
intraducibles.com/projects/typus
Effortless backend interface for Ruby on Rails applications. (Admin scaffold generator)
The importance of supporting native data types published 17 days ago by Fernando Blat
Having fun with 37signals Draft published about 1 month ago by Jaime Iniesta
Draft, the first 37signals app for the iPad lets you draw quick sketches and wireframes, using only your fingers. It's great, you only have two inks, white and red, and an eraser. Why more? You can also send your drawings to Campfire or by email. This is a great tool to quickly express your ideas, and I find that it's also very relaxing, just sit on the sofa and draw like a kid! Th...
hashtag_retweet_bot published about 1 month ago by Jaime Iniesta
hashtag_retweet_bot is a ruby bot that retweets all twits tagged by a certain hashtag. It's ideal for conferences, meetup groups, communities, etc. As an example, let's say you want to retweet every twit found with the hashtag #icecream every 5 minutes (300 seconds). This ruby gem will let you do it as easily as running: hashtag_retweet_bot icecream 300This bot was born as a ...
hashtag_retweet_bot published about 1 month ago by Jaime Iniesta
hashtag_retweet_bot is a ruby bot that retweets all twits tagged by a certain hashtag. It's ideal for conferences, meetup groups, communities, etc. As an example, let's say you want to retweet every twit found with the hashtag #icecream every 5 minutes (300 seconds). This ruby gem will let you do it as easily as running: hashtag_retweet_bot icecream 300This bot was born as a ...
José Valim and Xavier Noria at Barcelona On Rails published about 1 month ago by Jaime Iniesta
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The Agile Samurai published about 1 month ago by Jaime Iniesta
I've just finished reading The Agile Samurai (better said, the first 17 chapters that have been written as this book is still on beta), and I would like to share it with you as I think it's a nice book to read.
To be honest, I expected a bit more from a book with such a strong title, but I see that this book was intented for people who want to get a general idea of what the Agile de...
Happy 4th birthday ASPgems published about 1 month ago by Javier Ramírez
Four years ago I thought I was at the top of my career. The company I had co-founded was starting to look much like a nine to five job and I decided to resign and accept a great position as a post-sales engineer in FatWire, where I would have the chance to improve their content [...]
United States, here we go published about 1 month ago by Fernando Blat
theKidsArtGallery, the most awesome virtual Art Brut gallery published 2 months ago by Fernando Guillén
I have always loved the kind of paintings made for people that suppose don’t know how to paint, the drawings full of colors with aggressive strokes and absolutely non pretentious motive.
After a while I realized that there is a name for this kind of paintings: Art Brut, drawings made for people without art knowledge, the [...]
Twitter must become in an open protocol published 3 months ago by Fernando Guillén
… if Twitter doesn’t do it, someone must to.
On a recent conversation with Raúl Murciano about the new improvements on the Twitter API I was defending the need of Twitter becoming an open protocol.
The first response could be “Why is this needed?, why don’t just use the Twitter platform?“, the answer is not easy to [...]
How to use in-memory SQLite database for Rails testing published 3 months ago by Emili Parreño
How to use in-memory SQLite databse for Rails testing published 3 months ago by Emili Parreño
Desafío Abredatos 2010 published 3 months ago by Sergio Gil
Trinidad 0.8, gem extensions and database pooling published 3 months ago by David Calavera
Arduino: Phixter Visits, blinking a led each time your website receives a visit published 4 months ago by Fernando Guillén
PhixterVisits is a way to convert an user visit on your web site into a blinking led on your desktop.
I have received for my birthday present one of the most awesome presents a geek can received: an Arduino Workshop Kit.
The first experiment I did was, of course, a Hello World, and after that I build [...]
SEO for developers published 4 months ago by Javier Ramírez
As a web developer, my work involves much more than just coding; many times I find myself covering topics such as user experience, scalability, reliability of the system, or metrics and analytics to track the acceptance of a site.
SEO is left many times on the hands of the marketing team, but there are many technical [...]
Visibilidad de los métodos en Ruby published 4 months ago by Emili Parreño
iPhone Verb Conjugations published 5 months ago by Fernando Guillén
Attention: the iPhone Verb Conjugations is still not available on the AppStore, waiting for approval process.
VerbConjugations is simple iPhone application that tries to help the people that is learning Spanish to find out how a verb is conjugated.
With this application you can ask for any infinitive verb and you’ll obtain how this verb [...]
Slides and video for my talk “La herramienta de desarrollo definitiva” in conferencia rails 2009 published 5 months ago by Javier Ramírez
I just realized I still hadn’t published in my blog the slides and video of my talk “La herramienta de desarrollo definitiva” in conferencia rails 2009, back in november.
My talk was a reflection about web development and the relative importance of the development tools. I was defending the idea of the individual with good practices [...]
Links for 2010-02-17 [del.icio.us] published 5 months ago by Javier Ramírez
http://www.parkerfox.co.uk/labs/pixelperfect
Taps for Easy Database Transfers
Re: soap4r via https (ssl)
Links for 2010-02-16 [del.icio.us] published 5 months ago by Javier Ramírez
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How many lentils are there in the jar? published 5 months ago by Fernando Guillén
Asking for a development estimation without minimal specification info is like guess how many lentils are there on a jar without even see it,
... offering specification info, then you can see the jar, and you have to guess how many lentils are there in it without open it
... let me the jar, and I’ll keep [...]
Una nueva manera de ver los logs con Clarity published 5 months ago by Emili Parreño
Una nueva manera de ver los logs con Clarity published 5 months ago by Emili Parreño
Bye, bye Wordpress published 6 months ago by Emili Parreño
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