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
Twitter: twitter.com/christos
Github: github.com/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
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)
iPhone Verb Conjugations published 8 days 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 9 days 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 20 days 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 21 days ago by Javier Ramírez
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How many lentils are there in the jar? published 21 days 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 about 1 month ago by Emili Parreño
Una nueva manera de ver los logs con Clarity published about 1 month ago by Emili Parreño
Planetoid 0.1.6 released published about 1 month ago by Jaime Iniesta
Bye, bye Wordpress published about 1 month ago by Emili Parreño
Bye, bye Wordpress published about 1 month ago by Emili Parreño
IE cache for Ajax requests published about 1 month ago by Javier Ramírez
A few days ago I ran into an issue that is now obvious but took me a while to figure out. I was programming a chat client and everything was working fine in Firefox and Chrome, but when I tested it on IE (6 and 8) things were not looking so good.
This chat is following [...]
Lessons Learned Playing With SSL published about 1 month ago by Jaime Iniesta
Blogging from TextMate published about 1 month ago by Jaime Iniesta
Adding other tools support in Hudson's rubyMetrics plugin published 2 months ago by David Calavera
Eclipse buttons not working on Ubuntu Karmic Koala published 2 months ago by Javier Ramírez
Lately I was experiencing a strange behavior when working with Eclipse/RadRails. Some of the buttons didn’t work anymore. I could click on them, but they’d just appear as selected, without performing any actions. I had to use the enter key to actually click on the button.
Since I had run an update some days ago, I [...]
Loading several Rails applications into a single Tomcat container with Trinidad published 3 months ago by David Calavera
git bisect published 4 months ago by Sergio Gil
The Atom Exerciser on Heroku published 4 months ago by David Calavera
Conferencia Rails 2009 published 4 months ago by Fernando Blat
Charla sobre GIT el 4 de noviembre en Leganés published 4 months ago by Sergio Gil
Pasting code into vi published 5 months ago by Javier Ramírez
Every time I try to paste a big chunk of code into vi, it gets all messed up because of the autoindent. Each line gets indented taking the previous one as a reference, so when I try to paste something like..
global $wp_query;
parse_str($args, $r);
if (!isset($r['current'])) [...]
DRYing a little bit the translation of your views with I18n published 5 months ago by Fernando Blat
Character string processing for computer programmers published 5 months ago by Emili Parreño
Character string processing for computer programmers published 5 months ago by Emili Parreño
Character string processing for computer programmers published 5 months ago by Emili Parreño
After my talk in Conferencia Rails 2008, Balint Erdi sent me an email with a very interesting link about character string processing for computer programmers that I forgot to publish and I’ve just found it casually. Is the first of a three-part essay, titled Characters vs. Bytes
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