tutorials

building the foundations of a social network framework (part 1.5)

Posted on March 29, 2008. Filed under: Active Record, Ruby on Rails, barebone social network framework, basic user model, core social framework functionality, drafts, handle for a user, social network framework tutorial, tutorials, user management | Tags: ActiveRecord, validates_presence_of, validates_uniqueness_of |

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 [...]

building the foundations of a social network framework [to be continued]

Posted on March 29, 2008. Filed under: Ruby on Rails, barebone social network framework, community building, contact list, contact list management, core social framework functionality, drafts, handle for a user, tutorials, user management, videos | Tags: Active Record, ERM, LovdByLess, Migrations, Rake, videos |

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 [...]

some more [link] notes on social networks

Posted on March 17, 2008. Filed under: BuddyPress, Bulletin Board System, D Glazer, Debian Etch, Facebook, Google staffer, MySpace, N O'Neill, Ning, OpenSocial, Ruby on Rails, TechCrunch, Wordpress, core social network, developing a social network, facts, figures, like-a-breeze tutorial, social network, social sites | Tags: user base size |

On the subject of social sites, my current aim is to develop a freely available core social network. To be able to do so, I did some online search. I begun with a search for a Bulletin Board System based on Rails. But I didn’t go into depth until now.
What I found somtime amidst it [...]

re-found the current rails tutorial, plus some news from Cork, Ireland, and around the web/twittersphere

Posted on March 3, 2008. Filed under: BlogTalk 2008, E Schmidt, Facebook, Rails 2.0, Rails 2.0 tutorial, Ruby on Rails, Web 3.0, WebCamp 2008, slides, talks, videos |

Quanta accidentally begun to consume almost 100% of computing power. Which gives me some time to collect the bits and pieces I twittered about so far today.
First of all, the Cork, Ireland, conference I mentioned yesterday, actually seems to be two of them at once and at one place, one lasting for March 1 + [...]

some probably useful links to get into Ruby on Rails

Posted on March 2, 2008. Filed under: Debian Etch, PHP, RoR user groups, Ruby, Ruby on Rails, getting help, installation, introductions, tutorials, up and running, useful links, work |

As I am going to use this blog here as a sync’ed resource for stuff I might need at work and at home, I’m going to dump some Ruby/Rails links in here, taken from my local Wiki:
   Update: I foster a separate page of useful links for getting into RoR.

a Slideshare presentation on [...]