Archive for March, 2008
building the foundations of a social network framework (part 1.5)
Posted on March 29, 2008. Filed under: Ruby on Rails, development, user accounts management | Tags: Active Record, validates_presence_of, validates_uniqueness_of, tutorials, handle for a user, barebone social network framework, core social framework functionality, user management, drafts, basic user model, social network framework tutorial |
Until now, I have figured out how that stripped-down version of a most basic social network framework shall look like — in terms of rendered HTML for the users list as well as for the database structure to be used/models’ interdependencies. The goal is to implement that most basic stripped-down version. My previous post on [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )building the foundations of a social network framework [to be continued]
Posted on March 29, 2008. Filed under: Ruby on Rails, community building, development, social web, user accounts management | Tags: LovdByLess, ERM, Active Record, videos, Rake, Migrations, tutorials, contact list, contact list management, handle for a user, barebone social network framework, core social framework functionality, user management, drafts |
Since I pondered on implementing a social network for weeks, this weekend I might have some time to get something up and running. It’s plain to me that I am new to Rails, and I probably will miss several important points. (For the same reason, I don’t dare to approach to comprehend how the LovdByLess [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )If social media lack partial visibility, how does that affect privacy. Will the world become a good place because of lack of chance to hide bad behaviour?
Posted on March 27, 2008. Filed under: digital privacy, freedom, social web, society | Tags: data portability, Facebook, freedom to hide partially, N O'Neill, personal weaknesses, privacy, public speakers, R Scoble, Scobleizer, social media, social network, social roles, the world is not good |
Few days ago, on social networks, I mentioned the lack of a chance to organize your contacts by the roles you have: parents, family, close friends, your clique, acquaintances, colleagues, what else. By being able to sort your contacts by the role you have for each of them, you keep the chance to hide parts [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Barebone social network frameworks — what’s already there (and a draft on several levels of implementation of social networks)
Posted on March 25, 2008. Filed under: Ruby on Rails, development, social web | Tags: barebone social network framework, LovdByLess, Mixxt.net, Ning, social network, social network implementing projects, Sourceforge.net, Twitter, Xing |
Thanks for checking back, friends. I know I should blog a new post but am unsure of what to tackle next. … Well, probably you’re eager to learn about some more barebone social networks I might have picked up somewhere in the net or some more details on the MIT-licensed Rails social net barebone LovdbyLess [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Roles OR What today social networks lack
Posted on March 22, 2008. Filed under: digital communication, digital privacy, social web, user accounts management | Tags: Twitter, issues with current net-bound social networks, social network, identity, one person:one account paradigm, roles, A Kostresevic, social network issues, privacy |
A few hours ago, Andrej Kostresevic twittered about “a location-aware app” bringing “people together in real life”. As I thought about something similar for commuters a few weeks ago, I answered. That brought me into thinking about social networks this morning.
I think a real life social network might fail to lift-off if there’s not at [...]
getting into Ruby/Rails and social network development: a quick-glance overview
Posted on March 21, 2008. Filed under: series of posts | Tags: overview, summaries, ToC on series of posts |
Since about March 17, 2008, I collected my links I unearthed regarding the core of this blog: How to build a barebone social network using Ruby on Rails? Some while ago, I preferred to do things top down, but I learned doing so tends to make me overlook important things: It supports my own way [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )hosting Rails applications (final Rails links tranche, #4)
Posted on March 21, 2008. Filed under: Ruby on Rails, development, social web | Tags: Amazon Elastic Cloud, barebone social network framework, Codepad, content management system, EC2, GNU General Public License, Google Groups, Hacker News, Heroku, interviews, MIT license, Rails Machine, Rubricks |
The fourth and final post of my links-spreading series of Rails/Ruby, mobile social networks and telecommunications posts is about Rails productive tools, i.e. such ones not dedicated to Rails development. Mostly, it’s about Rails hosting, especially using the newborn star-to be Heroku and the underlying EC2 technology, but contains also a link to a Rails-based [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )From draft to launch: Helpful tools in Rails development (3rd tranche of Rails links)
Posted on March 21, 2008. Filed under: PHP, Ruby, Ruby on Rails, development, eRuby | Tags: A Arkin, Active Record, Apache, C Fowler, Capistrano, config/initializers/, DHH, erb, Err The Blog, ETags, gems, HTML scripting, libs/, Mongrel, Rails 2.0, Rathole, Sake, Subversion, T Preston-Werner, Webbrick, Wikipedia |
To get a clue of how Ruby and Rails and all a Rails project’s parts intertwine, I had a look into the files tree of a dummy Rails project, i.e. into what it looked like just after creation using rails project name, i.e. without any modification. A lot I got just by reading the inline [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )special Rails 2.0 features OR what impressed me most about Rails (2nd tranche of Rails links)
Posted on March 21, 2008. Filed under: PHP, Perl, Python, Ruby, Ruby on Rails | Tags: Joomla!, fixture term, directed graphs, semantics, programming-as-a-hobby, session management in Rails, cookies, cryptographically signed, Rails 2.0, slides, Rathole, R Daigle, P Marklund, session management, recommended read, Rails Edge, Action Controller |
Just after the turn of the year 2006>2007 I dove into Ruby. My original project is related to semantics, and I had to deal with large directed graphs and complex data structures. I put programming-as-a-hobby aside, about 1997, and the then most-recent language I’ve been aware of was Perl. For doing the occasional programming task, [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )First tranche of Rails links: recommended readings, podcast, where to get help
Posted on March 21, 2008. Filed under: Ruby, Ruby on Rails, comprehensibility, visualization | Tags: A Cangiano, books, communication, Edge Rails, getting help, P Marklund, podcasts, presentations, R Daigle, Rails 2.0, Rails blogs, Rails Envy, Rails Forum, slides, suggested reads |
On Rails, I have a real lot of useful links. As there are so many of them, similarly to the previous postings here, I partition this topic. To provide you with the most useful part first, I skip the special Rails 2.0 features, Rails Plug-Ins and the Rathole gem, what a Rails project does look [...]
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