Spain.rb


Mission

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.


Members

Aitor García Rey

Álvaro Bautista

Álvaro Bautista

Blog: blog.inbatu.com
Twitter: twitter.com/batu
Github: github.com/alvarobp
Projects: tvdb


Christos Zisopoulos

Christos Zisopoulos

Blog: 42linesofcode.com
Twitter: twitter.com/christos
Github: github.com/christos
Delicious: del.icio.us/christos
Projects: attribute_choices, remotable


David Calavera

Emili Parreño

Ernesto Jiménez

Felipe Talavera

Felipe Talavera

Blog: iamfelipe.com
Twitter: twitter.com/flype
Github: github.com/flype
Projects: stats_for_all


Fernando Blat

Fernando Guillén

Francesc Esplugas

Francesc Esplugas

Blog: francescesplugas.com/
Twitter: twitter.com/fesplugas
Github: github.com/fesplugas
Projects: Typus


Guillermo Álvarez Fernández

Guillermo Álvarez Fernández

Twitter: twitter.com/guillermooo
Github: github.com/guillermo
Projects: ActiveRecord#each, Groff


Jaime Iniesta

Javier Ramírez

Javier Ramírez

Blog: formatinternet.com/
Twitter: twitter.com/supercoco9
Github: github.com/javier
Projects: MailerTwitterable


Juanjo Bazán

Juanjo Bazán

Twitter: twitter.com/xuanxu
Github: github.com/xuanxu


Luismi Cavallé

Marcelino Llano

Raimond García

Raúl Murciano

Sam Lown

Sergio Espeja

Sergio Gil

Xavier Noria

Xavier Noria

Blog: www.hashref.com/
Twitter: twitter.com/fxn
Github: github.com/fxn



projects

ActiveRecord#each by Guillermo Álvarez Fernández

wiki.github.com/guillermo/active_record_each

Implements ActiveRecord::Base.each instance method to fetch one by one record for rails prior 2.2

acts_as_abusable by Aitor García Rey

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)

acts_as_scribe by Aitor García Rey

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)

alea by Aitor García Rey

github.com/linkingpaths/alea

Bringing random feelings to the Kernel since 2008.

(Developed for Linking Paths)

ar_setter_filter by Raúl Murciano

github.com/raul/ar_setter_filter

Plugin to add or chain filters to several ActiveRecord attribute setters at a time.

attribute_choices by Christos Zisopoulos

github.com/christos/attribute_choices

Map ActiveRecord attribute values to display values for consumption by humans

bb-ruby by Fernando Blat

github.com/ferblape/bb-ruby/tree/master

BBCode implementation for Ruby

bn4r by Sergio Espeja

github.com/spejman/bn4r

Bayesian networks for Ruby

cache_test by Fernando Blat

github.com/ferblape/cache_test/tree/master

Some assertions for testing that fragment cache, and action cache is generated or expired

EuRuKo2009 app by Fernando Guillén

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.

Festival Text-To-Speech for Ruby by Sergio Espeja

github.com/spejman/festivaltts4r

Text to Speech system for Ruby using FestivalTTS

General genetic algorithms for Ruby by Sergio Espeja

github.com/spejman/gga4r

General Genetic Algorithm for Ruby is a Ruby Genetic Algorithm that is very simple to use.

Geo Alertas by Fernando Guillén

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 by Guillermo Álvarez Fernández

github.com/guillermo/groff

Groff template engine for rails. It generates PS or PDF from groff command.

happywiki by Raúl Murciano

github.com/raul/happywiki

Pretty simple wiki based on Sinatra.

imdb by Sergio Gil

github.com/porras/imdb

Wrapper library to search IMDB parsing its HTML

iPhone Verb Conjugations by Fernando Guillén

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.

jQuery Font Party by Fernando Guillén

www.fernandoguillen.info/en/web/petprojects.html#font_party

JS library to convert normal text on image characters.

Experimental project. jQuery and javascript juggling.

legebiltzarra by Aitor García Rey

github.com/probono/legebiltzarra

Eusko Legebiltzarra - Parlamento Vasco site ruby client.

livevalidation by Sergio Gil

github.com/porras/livevalidation

Client-side validations for Ruby on Rails (using javascript library livevalidation.com)

MailerTwitterable by Javier Ramírez

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

MetaInspector by Jaime Iniesta

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.

meta_tags by Aitor García Rey

github.com/linkingpaths/meta_tags

Get your xHTML meta tags in control.

(Developed for Linking Paths)

Mighty Associations by Sergio Gil, Luismi Cavallé

github.com/bebanjo/mighty_associations

Traversing superpowers for your ActiveRecord associations

mysql_index_length by Emili Parreño

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.

One of Zombies by Fernando Guillén

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.

Oos4ruby by David Calavera

oos4r.rubyforge.org

Ruby gem to interact with the 11870's API

Persistize by Sergio Gil, Luismi Cavallé

github.com/bebanjo/persistize

Easy denormalization for your ActiveRecord models

Planetoid by Jaime Iniesta

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.

query_memcached by Fernando Blat

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

Rack::UserAgent by Sergio Gil, Luismi Cavallé

github.com/bebanjo/rack-useragent

Rack Middleware for filtering by user agent

Rails Generator Generator by Sergio Espeja

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.

Rake plugin for Hudson CI by David Calavera

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.

remotable by Christos Zisopoulos

github.com/christos/remotable

An unobtrusive Javascript plugin for Rails 2.3, inspired by Rails 3.0

rnvivo by Fernando Blat

github.com/ferblape/rnvivo/tree/master

Ruby client for Nvivo API

Ruby metrics plugin for Hudson CI by David Calavera

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.

RubyRegex by Emili Parreño

github.com/eparreno/ruby_regex

Ruby regular expressions library

sinatra_template by Raúl Murciano

github.com/raul/sinatra_template

Template for medium-sized applications based on Sinatra.

stats_for_all by Felipe Talavera

github.com/flype/stats_for_all

Easy to use, scalable and elegant tracking stats plugin for your rails models

The atom protocol exerciser by David Calavera

thinkincode.net/2008/7/2/the-ape-1-5-released

A tool to test your Atom Publishing Protocol server implementations.

The Phone Baptizer by Fernando Guillén

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.

Tractis Identity Verifications by Ernesto Jiménez

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.

translate_columns by Sam Lown

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.

translate_routes by Raúl Murciano

github.com/raul/translate_routes

Rails plugin to translate your URLs and routing helpers in a clean way.

Trinidad by David Calavera

calavera.github.com/trinidad

Trinidad allows you to run rails applications within an embedded Tomcat container, just like you do with mongrel, webrick or jetty.

tvdb by Álvaro Bautista

www.github.com/alvarobp/tvdb

Ruby wrapper for accessing TV shows information from the TheTVDB API.

tweeting_streambot by Ernesto Jiménez

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.

Typus by Francesc Esplugas

intraducibles.com/projects/typus

Effortless backend interface for Ruby on Rails applications. (Admin scaffold generator)



blog posts

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...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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...

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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)

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Links for 2010-02-16 [del.icio.us] published 5 months ago by Javier Ramírez

FFFFOUND! | design work life - Part 2
FFFFOUND! | Raymond Biesinger - Illustrators & Artists Agents – Debut Art
FFFFOUND! | New DOOMDRIPS art print titled "DEFCON:DOOM" is now up at htt... on Twitpic
FFFFOUND! | this isn't happiness.™ Peter Nidzgorski, tumblr
FFFFOUND! | unione sarda : bomboland
FFFFOUND! | Raymond Biesinger - Illustrators & Artists Agents –...

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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 [...]

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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




Contact

The best way to contact the members of Spain.rb is through our twitters or blogs. You can also find us at most ruby-related mailing lists and irc channels.


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