[CommunityEngine] Keep track of who has read what

2012-11-30 Thread Kevin Lawrence
I want to keep track of which user has read each SbPost so that I can build a UI - similar to Google Groups' - that summarizes the status of each thread (ie., topic) and changes the appearance of read posts. Can I get a hint on a good way to approach this? I am tempted to add an new activity

[CommunityEngine] Re: Keep track of who has read what

2012-12-04 Thread Kevin Lawrence
Closing the loop: I created a new model TopicViews to keep track of this and added a filter to the TopicController to update it.. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups CommunityEngine group. To view this discussion on the web visit

Re: [CommunityEngine] Which Branch?

2012-12-07 Thread Kevin Lawrence
Of course, I should have asked: 'anything I can do to help?' :-) On Friday, November 30, 2012 1:57:51 PM UTC-8, Kevin Lawrence wrote: Any idea when that merge might happen? I've run across a couple of little bugs that are fixed on the rails3 branch but not the jquery-bootstrap branch

[CommunityEngine] jquery-bootstrap and Themes

2012-12-14 Thread Kevin Lawrence
I want to start customizing the look and feel of my app. I'm using the jquery-bootstrap branch. Any suggestions as to how I should approach this? Create a theme? Copy-paste-edit the CSS from the CE plugin into my app? TIA, Kevin -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the

Re: [CommunityEngine] jquery-bootstrap and Themes

2012-12-19 Thread Kevin Lawrence
Thank you! I am making good progress adding my own css files and overridden views. Everything works great in development but I have had a series of problems in production that I mostly fixed by adding more and more assets to the precompile list like this: config.assets.precompile +=

[CommunityEngine] TinyMCE+html vs Pagedown+markdown

2012-12-19 Thread Kevin Lawrence
I plan to store user-entered data (comments, posts etc) in markdown instead of html and to use the pagedown control (the jquery library that Stack Exchange uses) instead of tinyMCE. Has anyone else done this before? Would there be any interest from others in using this? That is, is it worth me

[CommunityEngine] Rails 2.3-style plugins

2013-01-09 Thread Kevin Lawrence
Is there an easy fix for this? DEPRECATION WARNING: You have Rails 2.3-style plugins in vendor/plugins! Or (less-good) a simple way to suppress the warning? Possibly related, when I do anything with rake it takes an age before it gets started and performs the task I asked for. Anyone know

[CommunityEngine] ActsAsTaggableOn Count

2013-01-28 Thread Kevin Lawrence
I'm trying to implement something like stackoverflow's tags popover, where you can mouseover any tag and see the number of posts with that tag. I'm trying to do something like this: topic = Topic.first topic.tags.each do |tag| puts #{tag.name} #{tag.count} end But the count is never