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Ruby on Rails is perhaps the most popular Ruby-based web framework, but it is not the only web framework that is available to fellow rubyist. In fact there is a growing number of alternative Ruby Web Frameworks. In not particular order, here is a short list of my top favorite Ruby web frameworks. Ruby on Rails – Rails is a full-stack framework for developing database-backed web applications accord

Shoes is a cross-platform mini-gooey toolkit for the Ruby programming language written _Why. I installed Shoes on an Ubuntu box ran with it (bad pun intended). Let’s move from puns to code. A simple Shoes application is wrapped around the following piece of code. [source:ruby] Shoes.app :height => 250, :width => 200 do end [/source] As you can see, a Shoes application is simply a Ruby block. You c

I still remember the awe that struck me when I first saw for the first time Google Maps in action. I was able zoom in and out, and even circumnavigate the globe by just clicking and moving the cursor around. Google Maps really demonstrated what a web 2.0 mashup could be like. Housing Maps is mashup between Google Maps and Craigslist apartment/housing ads. If you want show all the locations of Wi-F

Before I begin let me just state that the Simply Helpful plugin requires Rails 1.2.2. If you already are using Rails 1.2.2 you can continue by downloading the plugin by executing the following command from the root directory of your Rails application using the terminal or command prompt. script/plugin install simply_helpful This plugin adds a few additional methods into the action view, action con

This RubyConf 2006 session provided a quick overview of a few libraries available to create and manipulate images in Ruby. Geoffrey Grosenbach, from the Rails Podcast, provided brief introduction to Scruffy, Gnuplot, MRPlot, PNG library, and Gruff Scene. Scruffy is a pure Ruby library that produces attractive and powerful SVG graphs. MRPlot is a pure Ruby plotting library. The PNG is a pure Ruby l

Here is a list of all the Ruby on Rails presentations that I have bookmarked. VIDEO Creating a weblog in 15 minutes – For me, this is the video that started it all. Snakes and Rubbies: Complete – “On December 3, 2005, Ruby and Python developers from Chicago and vicinity gathered at DePaul University to hear two of the leaders in rapid Web-application development debate the merits of each other’s f

If you are using the Ruby on Rails acts_as_taggable plugin you may want to display the top tags in a tag cloud. To generate a tag cloud you will to write some code beyond just writing the controller action. You will need to augment the taggable plugin itself and create a function in the application helper. Lets start by adding a new method in the Tag model provided by the acts_as_taggable plugin.

I am happy to announce that I have released the acts_as_commentable plugin, my first Ruby on Rails plugin. The Acts As Commentable plugin allows for comments to be added to your Rails ActiveRecord classes. To install the Acts As Commentable plugin run the following command: script/plugin install http://juixe.com/svn/acts_as_commentable The installation process will add several ruby scripts in the