Corners for Prototype
A port of JQuery corners to Prototype. It's orphaned I think but it works.
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There's a GEM for that
So between rubyforge and github rails gems probably has a solution to any web app feature you want, and its probably better than anything you could roll yourself. Case and point Chronic. Chronic gives you really nice "natural language" (english only) time parsing. Only problem is that out of the box it doesn't understand time zones. Enter this helpful post.
http://mad.ly/2008/09/25/making-rails-time-zone-aware-attributes-and-chronic-play-well-together/
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Home-brew MythTV IR Remote receiver
So I built a IR receiver for my MythTV box. The hardware part of the project went pretty well I thought but there was one bump in the road. If you follow the circuit diagram on the LIRC website it won't work well on the CD-in connector. I really wanted to have everything tucked inside the case, and RS-232 ports are becoming the exception. The CD-in connector on the MoBo seemed like a great idea (BTW awesome work by the LIRC audio_alsa driver delevopers). The problem is that the resistors used in the voltage divider on the LIRC website don't provide the best voltage or current for the CD-in connector. However, I did find this guys blog post about using CD-in and his circuit worked like a charge (tho I did add a 100nf cap like the LIRC diagram). Works like a charm now even using the dreaded RS 276-640 IR module.
http://www.mediaboxblog.co.uk/blog1.php/2008/05/25/howto-home-brew-ir-receiver-for-lirc-2
Getting the software configured was a little bit harder tho. Largely do to the crap onboard Intel audio card. This required a device setting of "plughw:0,0@8000,l".
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Hello World
So a blog app really is the equivalent of Hello World for Ruby on Rails. This is my go round at it. It turned out to be surprisingly easy. Even getting RSS feeds and Capistrano. Rolling my own tags tho is proving a little more of a challenge.
BTW
Thanks to http://www.railscasts.com for all the great info. It's as good as a classroom.
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