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.
Fernando Guillén
Fernando Guillén
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
projects
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
blog posts
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Conferencia Rails 2009, just around the corner published 10 months ago by Fernando Guillén
Another year, another conference, the conference that opened my eyes to the amazing word of Ruby, there on 2007, is just tuning the last details.
Conferencia Rails 2009, this year bigger, more impressive, with new venue, bigger organization team, more energy, and asking to the english spoken community to meet us with talks.
This year I am [...]
Coding on New York City published 10 months ago by Fernando Guillén
It’s done, I’ll be traveling with my angel to New York City next October. It won’t be a very short visit: 3 months. All the Autumn on New York.
I’m very excited, very stressed and very nervous, I know not one of this sensations is a pleasure sensation, but this is my way, I am a [...]
The Rails Rumble Experience published 11 months ago by Fernando Guillén
The software development is a box of wonderful surprises and the community I have found around Ruby on Rails is the most passionate I have never meet.
The last crazy geek stuff I have been involved has been the RailsRumble. The RailsRumble is a conquest where small web development teams has to show what they are [...]
OneOfZombies a brutal stupid 2D game published 11 months ago by Fernando Guillén
OneOfZombies is an experiment proyect.
Don’t come here looking for game development knowledge or very pretty Ruby code design. This is just me playing with Ruby and with Gosu.
After a few weeks working and studding on my free time I can show you this brutal stupid 2D game.This is not a quality project, this is not [...]
jQuery: deleting the last word from textarea’s cursor published about 1 year ago by Fernando Guillén
Following with the completor suggestor I was playing, I had the need to delete the last word from cursor before the completor writes the suggestion selected.
Thanks to the previous function textarea.lastWord() it was very easy:jQuery.fn.deleteLastWord = function() {
this.each(function(){
if (this.selectionStart || this.selectionStart == '0'&#...
jQuery: returning the last word from textarea’s cursor published about 1 year ago by Fernando Guillén
I was enjoying trying to develop a kind of completor suggestor on a textarea, I wanted it to jump when the tab key was pressed, that what easy with capturing the keydown event and the help of event.preventDefault.
But the thing what wasn’t such easy was the capturing the last word on the textarea from the [...]
Show me where am I published about 1 year ago by Fernando Guillén
puts lambda {}
Show me what is inside you published about 1 year ago by Fernando Guillén
puts class << self; self; end
Ruby: EuRuKo 2009, new dose of inspiration. published about 1 year ago by Fernando Guillén
This weekend is the EuRuKo 2009, a very concentrate juice of Ruby programmers. 230 tickets were sold withing 3 days almost two months ago.
I am one of the big bunch of people that is on charge of the organization of this edition, I am helping on whatever is in my hand, I am very proud [...]
Satanizando Java published about 1 year ago by Fernando Guillén
(Esto lo tenía por ahí desde hace tiempo… )
Últimamente está muy de moda eso de satanizar los grandes lenguajes corporativos en pro de los lenguajes de juguete.
Llevo 5 años trabajando con Java y sabéis qué os digo: que me uno a ellos, vine aquí para divertirme y creo que para eso se necesitan juguetes.
Ruby on Rails, Scotland on Rails 2009 published about 1 year ago by Fernando Guillén
Un fin de semana en Edimburgo rodeado de amantes, curiosos y rock-stars de Ruby on Rails, además de un montón de colegas de profesión y pasión, no me lo podía perder: Scotland on Rails.
El fin de semana comenzó el jueves con un curso de un montón de horas de lo que se esperaba fuera un [...]
La importancia del ‘estilo’ al programar published about 1 year ago by Fernando Guillén
Codifica como si el que fuera a mantener tu código fuese un maníaco asesino que sabe donde vives.
Andrés Panitsch en ‘des desarrollo de software‘.
En la búsqueda de la felicidad published about 1 year ago by Fernando Guillén
No me mal interpretes siempre me he sentido feliz. Me gusta programar, lo he disfrutado y lo disfruto cada día.
Picaba código de la microhobby pero no conseguía descifrar la magia de esos conjuros.
Conseguí hacer mis primeros videojuegos en BASIC pero necesitaba más potencia y velocidad de respuesta.
Conocí ensamblador y sentí el poder en mis dedos [...]
¿Cómo no se es uno mismo? published about 1 year ago by Fernando Guillén
¿Cómo no se es uno mismo?
Extrañas coincidencias (1991) David O. Russell y Jeff Baena.
Ruby on Rails, Agujero de seguridad en mi API xml published about 1 year ago by Fernando Guillén
En uno de los ‘pet-projects‘ en los que ando he intentado construir todo un poco académicamente rollo RESTfull (o casi full :) ) y tal.
Pero lo que nos acomete ahora es que he intentado soportar en todas las acciones de controlador en formato .xml.. ¿para qué?.. pues no sé.. pero ahí que lo he dejado.. [...]
Ruby on Rails, Paperclip y validaciones de dimensiones published about 1 year ago by Fernando Guillén
Me he picado una extensión de Paperclip para porveer de validaciones de dimensiones para las imágenes adjuntas aquí la comparto contigo por si te resulta útil.
No he hecho un parche para Paperclip pues eso supone un gran esfuerzo en tests y demás y eso tendrá que esperar un poco.
Lo he organizado todo para que copies [...]
Ruby: El operador ‘~>’ y el Gem::Requirement published about 1 year ago by Fernando Guillén
En un hilo de ror-es con título: ‘Problema con carga de rubygem en App rails al hacer rake db:create && rake db:migrate‘, Andrés Gutierrez se debatía con las versiones de las gemas solicitadas por un proyecto Rails que esta intentando arrancar.
La configuración del proyecto le requería tener instalada una gema y para indicarle la versión [...]
Como linkar a la última versión de un fichero en GitHub published about 1 year ago by Fernando Guillén
Sino conoces github no sigas leyendo.. y échale un vistazo, sino es el caso igual te interese este truquito que he descubierto trasteando.
Resulta que si quieres compartir un link de un fichero de un proyecto en github puedes navegar por los ficheros llegar al que quieres compartir y copiar el link que muestra la página, [...]
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