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, Fibber Mailman, Geo Alertas, iPhone Verb Conjugations, jQuery Font Party, One of Zombies, Sed Wrapper, simplecov-rcov, The Phone Baptizer, Thimbl Client, Thimbl Singing
Blog: www.francescesplugas.com/
Twitter: twitter.com/fesplugas
Github: github.com/fesplugas
Projects: rails-trash, 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
Projects: Random Sources, Telegraph
Blog: www.lmcavalle.com
Twitter: twitter.com/cavalle
Github: github.com/cavalle
Projects: Banksimplistic, Mighty Associations, Persistize, Rack::UserAgent, Steak
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: CouchRest Model, 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
https://github.com/cavalle/banksimplistic
Exploring CQRS, Event Sourcing and DDD with Ruby
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
github.com/fguillen/FibberMailman
Very simple library for mocking Net::POP3.start petitions
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.
Trash for Rails models using scopes. (KISS)
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.
github.com/xuanxu/random_sources
Ruby gem to generate random numbers from web providers of real randomness sources like radioactive decay or atmospheric noise.
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.
https://github.com/fguillen/SedWrapper
Ruby Gem.
Wrapper for the Unix shell command sed.
https://github.com/fguillen/simplecov-rcov
SimpleCov formatter to generate a report Rcov style
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
https://github.com/cavalle/steak
The delicious combination of RSpec and Capybara for Acceptance BDD
https://github.com/xuanxu/telegraph
Ruby gem to read and write Morse code.
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.
https://github.com/fguillen/ThimblClient
Ruby Gem.
Ruby client for the [Thimbl protocol](http://www.thimbl.net)
https://github.com/fguillen/ThimblSinging
Sinatra Web App.
Web client for the [Thimbl protocol](http://www.thimbl.net)
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)
MVC is not only for web applications published 2 months ago by David Calavera
Photo published 3 months ago by Emili Parreño
Work in progress (ode to my pet-projects) published 4 months ago by Fernando Guillén
I have been standing aside of new clients and projects for the whole summer, there have been two great reasons for this decision. One: I wanted to enjoy the summer, and two: I needed time for my own projects, or better said: my own projects need time from me.
When I’m working for a client I’m really [...]
I don’t like end customers published 7 months ago by Fernando Guillén
This is not a flash thinking. I have not just waked up angry with something and I just have taken this decision. It has been something cooking very slow.
I remember three years ago talking with one of my respected colleagues about our freelance way of life. I was defending the experience of working with end customer, taking the [...]
I don’t like end customers published 7 months ago by Fernando Guillén
This is not a flash thinking. I have not just waked up angry with something and I just have taken this decision. It has been something cooking very slow.
I remember three years ago talking with one of my respected colleagues about our freelance way of life. I was defending the experience of working with end customer, taking the [...]
Trying out Rails 3.1 published 7 months ago by Javier Ramírez
Rails 3.1 is almost here, and all the rock star ninja hipster early adopters have been playing with it for a while. I’m not a ninja (picture me with a black tight skin suit if you wonder why), so I didn’t install it until today. Installation is pretty straight forward, but there are a couple [...]
Photo published 7 months ago by Emili Parreño
How to update counter cache column in Rails published 8 months ago by Emili Parreño
Project.reset_column_information
Project.find(:all).each do |p|
Project.update_counters p.id, :tasks_count => p.tasks.length
end
"...the best way to avoid failure is to fail constantly." published 9 months ago by Emili Parreño
"...the best way to avoid failure is to fail constantly."
Don’t try this at home published 9 months ago by Emili Parreño
Don’t try this at home
Photo published 9 months ago by Emili Parreño
Shell-sort with Hungarian (Székely) folk dance published 9 months ago by Emili Parreño
Shell-sort with Hungarian (Székely) folk dance
"Opinions are like assholes. Everybody’s got one and everyone thinks everyone else’s..." published 9 months ago by Emili Parreño
“Opinions are like assholes. Everybody’s got one and everyone thinks everyone else’s stinks”
"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I’m not sure about the the..." published 9 months ago by Emili Parreño
“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I’m not sure about the the universe” - Albert Einstein
"Software is like sex; it’s better when it’s free" published 9 months ago by Emili Parreño
“Software is like sex; it’s better when it’s free” - Linus Torvalds
Seth Godin on The tribes we lead published 9 months ago by Emili Parreño
Seth Godin on The tribes we lead
Oferta de empleo publicada en Febrero del 2009 published 9 months ago by Emili Parreño
Oferta de empleo publicada en Febrero del 2009
"Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of..." published 9 months ago by Emili Parreño
“Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius — and a lot of courage — to move in the opposite direction” - Albert Einstein
http://blog.twitter.com/2011/03/numbers.html published 9 months ago by Emili Parreño
http://blog.twitter.com/2011/03/numbers.html
High performance, high class web development for Node.js published 9 months ago by Emili Parreño
High performance, high class web development for Node.js: var app = express.createServer();
app.get('/', function(req, res){
res.send('Hello World');
});app.listen(3000);
How to use in-memory SQLite database for Rails testing published 9 months ago by Emili Parreño
Let’s see how to use SQLite to store your test database and reduce considerably the time needed to run all your tests.
Fisrt of all configure your database
#/config/database.yml
test:
adapter: sqlite3
database: ":memory:"
verbosity: silentNow run this piece of code to create test database before run each test
before(:each) do
load "#{Rails.root.to_s}/db/schema.rb"
endNow try to run ...
"Constraints force creativity" published 9 months ago by Emili Parreño
“Constraints force creativity” - Getting Real
The Internet published 9 months ago by Emili Parreño
The Internet
Photo published 9 months ago by Emili Parreño
How we improved FACTURAgem security, or how to set HTTPS for your rails application published 10 months ago by Javier Ramírez
As you probably know, one of the products in my company is FACTURAgem, a web application for making simple invoices targetted to those users who are currently invoicing using word, excel or a notepad and a ballpoint. Since your invoices are something you don’t want to share with the rest of the word, all the [...]
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