Posted by JP
Sat, 19 May 2007 07:24:00 GMT
I stumbled upon this list of useful Rails Plugins on Juixe TechKnow.
The first one in the list, acts_as_taggable is super useful. It lets you add flickr-like - or del.icio.us-like if you prefer - tags to any ActiveRecord object. It works great and I've used it in a few projects.
Nice to see that the community is sharing useful code. That's the thing with the RoR community: people are proud of the nice code they write and want other people to see and use it.
Posted in Tips | Tags acts_as_taggable, links, plugins, rails | no comments
Posted by JP
Tue, 13 Mar 2007 20:54:00 GMT
I set out to write a small application last week. After 6 days worth of free time, I give you Xornot's Gem Finder. It's a small Ruby on Rails application that allows you to find World of Warcraft gems.
I wrote this small application because no-one else did and I wanted to use it. Also, because I wanted to prove that simple, straightforward projects that can be done in a matter of days, can be very useful in the real world.
And useful it is, if I look at my log, which is continuously serving request every few seconds, a mere 6 hours after I made the URL public.
Anyways, used the acts_as_taggable plugin to index the information. If were to do it again, I'd modify the plugin to actually generate the tags automatically from the object data. Since I was already feeding the database when I thought that up, I decided to put that idea on ice and perhaps recycle it in another project. Nevertheless, the dataset is now complete and I have a laboratory to play around with tags. At the present moment, I don't do anything [out of the ordinary] with them, but I will try different things in the weeks to come.
I'll post the appliction's access statistics as soon as I gather enough. I think this will be surprising.
Update 2007-03-07 17:11
After six and a half days online, the site has had 2964 unique visitors and 3629 visits (1.22 visits per visitor). 16568 pages were served, an average of 4.56 per visit. These stats exclude non-visible spider traffic. Not too shabby!
Posted in Stuff I did | Tags acts_as_taggable, rails, research, worldofwarcraft, wowgems | 3 comments
