Re: Camping Free Ruby Hosting update and question

2012-08-30 Thread Jenna Fox
I'm not sure I understand the usefulness of the second and third server? Is it for redundancy? If I were running free hosting I'd be cautious of such things as I wouldn't want to give the users the impression I was going to be completely committed to keeping it online forever and having

Re: _why documentary

2012-08-30 Thread Jenna Fox
One more thing - the text in the trailer misspells Why's name several times. Here are the preferred rules for naming him in writing, as told by Why: - Why The Lucky Stiff or why the lucky stiff - but never Why the lucky stiff or Why the Lucky Stiff - Why (for short, always capitalised like

Re: Camping-list Digest, Vol 66, Issue 7

2012-08-30 Thread Jenna Fox
I'm in the inner sydney suburbs (terrace houses and all that), but Judofyr is over in Norway! Judofyr is probably the main contributor to camping in recent years - I haven't committed much code to the actual camping software, but I did do the web design everyone seems to hate at

Re: Feature: Inline templates?

2012-08-15 Thread Jenna Fox
What makes this better than a here doc? — Jenna On Wednesday, 15 August 2012 at 6:18 PM, judo...@gmail.com wrote: It's been implemented here: https://github.com/camping/camping/commit/407e2ddd441f438722828dc77d9094e0dea66143, but I don't think the current released version of Camping has

Re: Feature: Inline templates?

2012-08-15 Thread Jenna Fox
::Index.render(self) end end This can also serve static files with correct MIME-type: __END__ /style.css * { margin: 0; padding: 0 } // Magnus Holm On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 4:44 PM, Jenna Fox a...@creativepony.com (mailto:a...@creativepony.com) wrote: What makes this better than a here

Re: template, markaby question

2012-08-14 Thread Jenna Fox
See magnus's post at http://rubyforge.org/pipermail/camping-list/2010-August/001413.html for info on using the haml and erb support built in to Camping. Also note that you don't need to 'render' anything. You can just set @body to whatever string you want in your controller, or even return

Re: Camping 1 click deployment is live! 1.ai - alpha users welcome !

2012-05-08 Thread Jenna Fox
? Push notification stream server? View Source link for open web apps and demos. — Jenna Fox On Wednesday, 9 May 2012 at 1:30 PM, gurugeek wrote: On May 8, 2012, at 4:04 PM, Anthony Durity wrote: What are the limitations? I forgot to add these important limitations: - Presently

Re: Camping 1 click deployment is live! 1.ai - alpha users welcome !

2012-05-06 Thread Jenna Fox
A lot of repos for websites have dots in them, should fix it to support anything github can support. — Jenna On Monday, 7 May 2012 at 10:30 AM, gurugeek wrote: On May 7, 2012, at 2:23 AM, Jenna Fox wrote: Things: 1) It'd be super cool if the user types in their email address

Re: mab advice

2012-05-04 Thread Jenna Fox
So essentially you want the 'label' string inserted verbatim as html code, rather than as plain text? li { a(:href = link) { label } } In markaby and presumably mab, strings passed as arguments are escaped, and html is inserted as bodies of elements via blocks - you can build that body

ChillDB License

2012-05-02 Thread Jenna Fox
A few of you sounded interested in using it. I haven't explicitly put a software license on it, so I guess it's not technically FOSS yet. What licenses are good? BSD? Public Domain? — Jenna ___ Camping-list mailing list Camping-list@rubyforge.org

Re: definitive markaby

2012-05-02 Thread Jenna Fox
Mab is going to be the new one going forward. If I remember right, the reasons for this were: 1) Markaby isn't very well maintained these days 2) Markaby is all about xhtml, which is totally irrelevant to the modern web. 3) Markaby doesn't explicitly have a license allowing us to do stuff to

Re: ChillDB License

2012-05-02 Thread Jenna Fox
think?) but not many. Hope that helps. Apologies if you already knew all this. On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 1:34 PM, Jenna Fox a...@creativepony.com (mailto:a...@creativepony.com) wrote: A few of you sounded interested in using it. I haven't explicitly put a software license on it, so I

Re: definitive markaby

2012-05-02 Thread Jenna Fox
Yes. — Jenna On Wednesday, 2 May 2012 at 11:14 PM, Dave Everitt wrote: thanks - a compact but completely-formed answer. So 'mab is the Camping-specific markaby' would be an accurate statement? - DaveE Mab is going to be the new one going forward. If I remember right, the reasons

Gone a little crazy

2012-04-29 Thread Jenna Fox
So, I went a little crazy this weekend and did a whole bunch of things: * camping.io now renders properly in Chrome (yay! why didn't anyone tell me this was broken? evolving web standards are annoying!) * I tidied up some issues and commented on heaps of things on

The Website

2012-04-29 Thread Jenna Fox
So here we are, talking about the website again. Here's my thinking: David Costa's nearly got that neat camping app hosting thing working, which is amazingly awesome and we love him so much! People have all sorts of interesting ideas for things the camping site could do and have - lists of

Re: Gone a little crazy

2012-04-29 Thread Jenna Fox
Yeah I'm not even going to attempt that one. Opera is way out of my league. If you know how to fix it, I'd love the help, otherwise I'm all for opera's plan to pretend to be webkit. Maybe there's some way we can detect it and show opera a simpler website? — Jenna On Sunday, 29 April 2012

Re: Gone a little crazy

2012-04-29 Thread Jenna Fox
the fonts don't display, but I'll try looking into it. -- Matma Rex 2012/4/29 Jenna Fox a...@creativepony.com (mailto:a...@creativepony.com): Yeah I'm not even going to attempt that one. Opera is way out of my league. If you know how to fix it, I'd love the help, otherwise I'm all

Re: The Website

2012-04-29 Thread Jenna Fox
. PS. I'll work my ass off to have the first screencast done on tuesday! Cheers! Isak Andersson Jenna Fox a...@creativepony.com (mailto:a...@creativepony.com) skrev: So here we are, talking about the website again. Here's my thinking: David Costa's nearly got

Re: Camping + Couch DB

2012-04-26 Thread Jenna Fox
Glad you like it! Chill isn't totally feature complete, but it has the important bits I think. If you ever find yourself needing extra bits I'd love to bulk it out some more - I just haven't had a use for it lately and I've not wanted to design APIs I'm not using myself. Much of the choices

Re: Camping + Couch DB

2012-04-26 Thread Jenna Fox
So far as uploading a couchdb to a git repository - You could probably find the files somewhere in your system and do that, but it sounds like a bad idea. Better: use wget to download the all_docs page, backing up all the documents on that database in to a single file. Then you can restore it

Re: Camping + Couch DB

2012-04-26 Thread Jenna Fox
Sorry correction - the argument to ChillDB for setting your password is pass: 'hackerbats', not password: 'hackerbats'. Silly me! Maybe chill should accept both! — Jenna On Friday, 27 April 2012 at 1:47 AM, Jenna Fox wrote: Sure. To connect chilldb using a username and password

Re: framework size, forking etc.

2012-04-18 Thread Jenna Fox
I think the trouble with streaming over the rack interface is that it's confusing. I'm fairly good at ruby, but I'm not entirely sure how it would even work. I guess I need to run my app in a threaded web server, running every request in it's own thread? Then inside the each iterator in the

Re: framework size, forking etc.

2012-04-17 Thread Jenna Fox
Those are all great points - the eventstream support is a particular sticking point to me. It feels like a standard which aught to be easily implemented - even through rack! but I've yet to see any web frameworks where eventstream doesn't seem like a total hack - except perhaps for Node.JS

Re: Markaby xhtml_strict

2012-04-16 Thread Jenna Fox
Urgh. I just turn the validation in markaby off pretty much all of the time - like strictly typed languages, I find it gets in my way more often than it helps me find errors. Instead of using the xhtml_strict macro you could do it yourself: self !DOCTYPE whatever blah blah\n html lang =

Re: http_referrer

2012-04-15 Thread Jenna Fox
O_o I think the extra character is worth it. — Jenna On Monday, 16 April 2012 at 9:40 AM, david costa wrote: Ah well the is not on fcgi but passenger :) I would say that most of the serious ruby/rails hosting now offer passenger as an option so shouldn't limit your application

Re: Camping's URL mapping system

2012-04-13 Thread Jenna Fox
An A4 piece of paper has a little over 9kb of data storage if storing in binary at 300dpi — Jenna On Saturday, 14 April 2012 at 1:09 AM, Dave Everitt wrote: There's a crucial point here... if 3k (the old 4k) is a 'proof of concept' and a great exercise in programming skill, it isn't

Re: Camping's URL mapping system

2012-04-13 Thread Jenna Fox
On the other hand, Camping is already far too big to fit entirely in a QR code. It would take as many as TWO QR codes to store camping in it's entirety. — Jenna On Saturday, 14 April 2012 at 1:40 AM, Jenna Fox wrote: An A4 piece of paper has a little over 9kb of data storage if storing

Re: Camping's URL mapping system

2012-04-12 Thread Jenna Fox
The problem is basically this: Sometimes you want to reference static files, and other components of your site. I have a Gallery app mounted at http://creativepony.com/gallery/ and it causes me all sorts of trouble. Often times to reference static files I end up needing to use /../ in URLs

Re: Camping's URL mapping system

2012-04-12 Thread Jenna Fox
wont happen by default. Deployment is one of the biggest hassles we face - this may help. — Jenna On Friday, 13 April 2012 at 12:26 AM, Magnus Holm wrote: On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 15:59, Jenna Fox a...@creativepony.com (mailto:a...@creativepony.com) wrote: The problem is basically

Re: sites powered by Camping

2012-04-11 Thread Jenna Fox
I don't think we should ever consider pagerank in decision making. Sounds like a nice idea otherwise tho. Does anyone want to maintain a page like that? — Jenna Fox On Wednesday, 11 April 2012 at 9:37 PM, Nokan Emiro wrote: Hi List, What about creating a section on the Camping site

Re: lighttpd + fastcgi + camping

2012-04-06 Thread Jenna Fox
Camping is a rack app. Check out the rack docs for info on how to mount it as any kind of server interface. — Jenna Fox On Saturday, 7 April 2012 at 1:26 AM, david costa wrote: Hello all, I am running in some little stumbling blocks with passenger as a multi user environment (the most

Re: Update book

2012-04-03 Thread Jenna Fox
Let me know exactly what text you want replaced with exactly what, and I'll make that change now. — Jenna On Tuesday, 3 April 2012 at 7:07 PM, Isak Andersson wrote: Hello. I think we should update the book a little bit. On the part of migrations we use def self.up and def self.down

Re: dead easy deployment / Camping on the fly

2012-04-01 Thread Jenna Fox
am done testing subdomains etc. ;) And of course if you have a better idea for a setup let me know. Regards David On Sun, Apr 1, 2012 at 1:30 AM, Jenna Fox a...@creativepony.com (mailto:a...@creativepony.com) wrote: WebDav for nginx: http

Re: dead easy deployment / Camping on the fly

2012-04-01 Thread Jenna Fox
of gems other than Camping. For example, rack_csrf. And we should make sure that dependencies get installed. :) -- Skickat från min Android-telefon med K-9 E-post. Ursäkta min fåordighet. Jenna Fox a...@creativepony.com (mailto:a...@creativepony.com) skrev: Hm. I know the main guy

Re: dead easy deployment / Camping on the fly

2012-04-01 Thread Jenna Fox
it? Anyways. Perhaps we could offer some Gems to pick from that we think are quality! (rack_csrf, scrypt). -- Skickat från min Android-telefon med K-9 E-post. Ursäkta min fåordighet. Jenna Fox a...@creativepony.com skrev: I don't think we need to go as far as automatically installing gems

Re: dead easy deployment / Camping on the fly

2012-04-01 Thread Jenna Fox
-telefon med K-9 E-post. Ursäkta min fåordighet. Jenna Fox a...@creativepony.com (mailto:a...@creativepony.com) skrev: @Isak Anything run with the `backticks operator` runs with the same privileges as the process which launched them, if using system level sandboxing, or if using some

Re: dead easy deployment / Camping on the fly

2012-03-31 Thread Jenna Fox
is to have a working system that is fairly stable and usable albeit it might be launched as alpha/beta anyway :) On Sat, Mar 31, 2012 at 6:33 AM, Jenna Fox a...@creativepony.com (mailto:a...@creativepony.com) wrote: We can just use a *.camping.io (http://camping.io) catchall

Re: dead easy deployment / Camping on the fly

2012-03-31 Thread Jenna Fox
! On Sat, Mar 31, 2012 at 2:52 PM, Jenna Fox a...@creativepony.com (mailto:a...@creativepony.com) wrote: @David - sorted, both those subdomains now point to your machine. :) — Jenna On Saturday, 31 March 2012 at 4:10 PM, david costa wrote: BTW if you want to point

Re: dead easy deployment / Camping on the fly

2012-03-31 Thread Jenna Fox
Oh whoops! I forgot to press the save button on the dns management page. Should go through now, certainly within the next hour. On fastcgi - fastcgi is not a server in itself - you cannot connect to it with a web browser. Like Passenger, it's a way for a server like nginx or apache to launch

Re: dead easy deployment / Camping on the fly

2012-03-31 Thread Jenna Fox
The main downside to passenger, is that when things go wrong, it can be a bit 'thar be monsters in here!' It's a bit of a mysterious technology which isn't very well documented when stuff doesn't work, or at least it wasn't when I was playing with it about 8 months ago. I ended up settling on

Re: dead easy deployment / Camping on the fly

2012-03-31 Thread Jenna Fox
WebDav for nginx: http://wiki.nginx.org/HttpDavModule Or you could implement webdav as an application nginx proxies to, just as it proxies to ruby instances. — Jenna On Sunday, 1 April 2012 at 2:11 AM, david costa wrote: On Sat, Mar 31, 2012 at 5:36 PM, Isak Andersson icepa...@lavabit.com

Re: camping paid examples + screencasts ?

2012-03-30 Thread Jenna Fox
Seconding Vimeo - it's exactly the sort of creative friendly helpful community we get along so great with. :) I wouldn't bother with youtube. The main thing is that people can comment and embed and vote/like it and all that wonderful stuff. :) — Jenna On Friday, 30 March 2012 at 5:28 PM,

Re: camping paid examples + screencasts ?

2012-03-30 Thread Jenna Fox
was thinking I hook an application up with Unicorn and putting nginx on top of it. How does that sound? - Isak Andersson On 03/30/2012 08:35 AM, Jenna Fox wrote: Seconding Vimeo - it's exactly the sort of creative friendly helpful community we get along so great with. :) I

Re: camping paid examples + screencasts ?

2012-03-30 Thread Jenna Fox
:) - Isak -- Skickat från min Android-telefon med K-9 E-post. Ursäkta min fåordighet. Jenna Fox a...@creativepony.com (mailto:a...@creativepony.com) skrev: I've certainly heard nothing bad of Unicorn from my friend who works in the github server management team. — Jenna

Re: camping paid examples + screencasts ?

2012-03-30 Thread Jenna Fox
and putting nginx on top of it. How does that sound? - Isak Andersson On 03/30/2012 08:35 AM, Jenna Fox wrote: Seconding Vimeo - it's exactly the sort of creative friendly helpful community we get along so great with. :) I wouldn't bother with youtube

Re: camping paid examples + screencasts ?

2012-03-30 Thread Jenna Fox
, Jenna Fox wrote: I've never heard of that. Camping is a rack app. It works with any kind of rack server. Thin is in no way official or standard. Use whatever you think is good! There are so many ways to deploy ruby apps and nearly all of them are really great. It's not worth fussing too much

Re: camping paid examples + screencasts ?

2012-03-30 Thread Jenna Fox
will be the one handling all the dynamic stuff. -- Skickat från min Android-telefon med K-9 E-post. Ursäkta min fåordighet. Jenna Fox a...@creativepony.com (mailto:a...@creativepony.com) skrev: For screencasts I recommend whichever of the fashionable web servers has the coolest looking

Re: camping paid examples + screencasts ?

2012-03-30 Thread Jenna Fox
Disable comments on youtube perhaps? P.S. RE: 'unicorn sounds nice' for those who haven't heard it yet, this is what Unicorn sounds like: http://d.pr/olau — Jenna On Saturday, 31 March 2012 at 1:20 AM, Dave Everitt wrote: On 30 Mar 2012, at 14:51, david costa wrote: Vimeo is

Re: camping paid examples + screencasts ?

2012-03-30 Thread Jenna Fox
both come from one program on the server, simplifying setup. — Jenna Fox On Saturday, 31 March 2012 at 5:28 AM, Dave Everitt wrote: Having just spent a whole afternoon: updating my sources in Debian just to install curl just to install rvm and check rvm requirements... [paused here

Re: camping paid examples + screencasts ?

2012-03-28 Thread Jenna Fox
too. — Jenna Fox On Thursday, 29 March 2012 at 12:22 AM, Paul van Tilburg wrote: On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 06:57:51AM -0600, Philippe Monnet wrote: I think it would be fun too. Love meta stuff. In general I think the more tutorials / screencasts / posts / sites on Camping, the merrier

Re: camping paid examples + screencasts ?

2012-03-28 Thread Jenna Fox
to be up and quickly with something it is certainly better than any bigger but uncoded masterplan :) Regards David On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 3:52 PM, Jenna Fox a...@creativepony.com (mailto:a...@creativepony.com) wrote: We have a tumblr blog - maybe we should turn on the 'ask

Re: camping paid examples + screencasts ?

2012-03-28 Thread Jenna Fox
! Best Wishes David On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 12:55 AM, Jenna Fox a...@creativepony.com (mailto:a...@creativepony.com) wrote: I just don't see the point in creating our own elaborate infrastructure which we then have to maintain indefinitely, which is more complicated than static files

Re: camping paid examples + screencasts ?

2012-03-28 Thread Jenna Fox
and/or other IT gears. With a bit of advertising it could be successful. I do welcome any comment on this. Thanks again and sorry for the misunderstanding Best Regards David On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 1:54 AM, Jenna Fox a...@creativepony.com (mailto:a...@creativepony.com

Re: camping paid examples + screencasts ?

2012-03-26 Thread Jenna Fox
I'd be more than happy to help with screencasts and writing. I'm quite good with Final Cut and Motion, but someone else would need to take the lead on that and delegate tasks to me, as my mind is tied up in other projects for the next few months. — Jenna On Tuesday, 27 March 2012 at 8:59

+1 shorter domain name

2012-01-31 Thread Jenna Fox
camping aught to be the home of things like mab. — Jenna Fox ___ Camping-list mailing list Camping-list@rubyforge.org http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/camping-list

Re: +1 shorter domain name

2012-01-31 Thread Jenna Fox
their motivations would be? — Jenna Fox On Wednesday, 1 February 2012 at 2:18 PM, adam moore wrote: I've recently been using Arch linux and 90% of the appeal comes from their awesome user-led wiki.. Something which we can gradually add to, build on camping of course, and which hand-holds beginners would

Re: Camping 2.2 pre-release

2012-01-25 Thread Jenna Fox
failing test case, running in camping: def layout text !DOCTYPE html\n html { head { title foo } } end Markaby output: !DOCTYPE html htmlheadtitlefoo/title/head/html Mab output: lt;!DOCTYPE htmlgt; htmlheadtitlefoo/title/head/html — Jenna Fox On Wednesday, 25 January 2012 at 10:00

Re: Mab is pretty much done

2012-01-15 Thread Jenna Fox
Excellent work! and some great examples you have in that readme ;) — Jenna Fox On Monday, 16 January 2012 at 6:26 AM, Magnus Holm wrote: Just thought I'd let you know that I've been working on Mab lately: https://github.com/camping/mab. This will replace Markaby in the next release

Re: Is it possible to read session data from Camping::Session in a middleware?

2012-01-02 Thread Jenna Fox
, then the response travels back right to left as each 'call' method on the middleware objects finish their work and return to the next layer leftward. — Jenna Fox On Monday, 2 January 2012 at 10:10 PM, Daniel Bryan wrote: I'm trying to implement some simple middleware that will have behaviour based

Re: Mab: The tiny Markaby-alternative

2011-12-20 Thread Jenna Fox
. Why’s legacy serves only as a distraction, lets move on. I suggest for your consideration: Pagely — Jenna Fox On Tuesday, 20 December 2011 at 7:36 PM, Magnus Holm wrote: 2011/12/19 Bartosz Dziewoński matma@gmail.com (mailto:matma@gmail.com): 2011/12/19 Magnus Holm judo

Re: Camping Server: automatically serve static files from public/

2011-12-20 Thread Jenna Fox
to specify any arbitrary folder as the public files. — Jenna Fox On Tuesday, 20 December 2011 at 9:19 PM, Paul van Tilburg wrote: On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 11:06:09AM +0100, Isak Andersson wrote: I think Alternative 2 makes the most sense. Then you can have multiple apps that don't share

Re: Markaby license issue

2011-12-19 Thread Jenna Fox
friendly compact HTML. — Jenna Fox On Tuesday, 20 December 2011 at 10:09 AM, Dave Everitt wrote: Small note: XHTML did survive, it's XHTML2 which didn't: there's an XML version of HTML5 called XHTML5. We now return to your regularly scheduled discussion. I didn't know about

Re: Mab: The tiny Markaby-alternative

2011-12-19 Thread Jenna Fox
Nah I'd still just think I want camping! I'll install camping! but then it'd just work :P — Jenna Fox On Tuesday, 20 December 2011 at 1:15 PM, David Susco wrote: So then I'd have to remember it's the opposite of the way it's been? :P Dave On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 5:53 PM, Jenna Fox

Re: Markaby license issue

2011-12-19 Thread Jenna Fox
I tried to use that crazy stuff recently and it just doesn't work, in webkit at least. — Jenna On 20/12/2011, at 4:34 PM, Steve Klabnik st...@steveklabnik.com wrote: Yep! Granted, if you serve it with an XML MIME type, it must be able to be parsed with an XML parser, so none of that p

Re: Markaby license issue

2011-12-18 Thread Jenna Fox
Aw.. That is rather disappointing. But still, I see this problem as a chance to be reborn anew. Fresh and clean of the bad lessons learnt by Markaby. We did learn some lessons, didn't we? — Jenna Fox On Sunday, 18 December 2011 at 7:27 PM, Magnus Holm wrote: On Sun, Dec 18, 2011 at 02

Re: setting controllers etc

2011-12-18 Thread Jenna Fox
:views for that matter!), which means explaining them in docs or by reading camping's source code, which means memorising more new facts you don't really need to know, wasting everyone's time, and distracting you from the app you're intending to build. — Jenna Fox On Monday, 19 December 2011

Re: Markaby license issue

2011-12-17 Thread Jenna Fox
Nice! Lets just all use this thing! What say you, everyone? — Jenna Fox On Sunday, 18 December 2011 at 12:47 PM, Steve Klabnik wrote: A wild project appears: http://krainboltgreene.github.com/dapper-dan/ ___ Camping-list mailing list Camping

Re: Riak on Camping

2011-12-06 Thread Jenna Fox
You can't use ActiveRecord with map-reduce databases anyhow, without loosing a bunch of performance and features. It's best to use a specialised adaptor just for Riak. It looks a bit similar to CouchDB, so you might also like to have a look at that if you can't find any good rubygems for riak.

Re: Riak on Camping

2011-12-06 Thread Jenna Fox
in to that. Then I can finally go to the site without having to switch browser ;) Cheers! Isak Den 2011-12-06 23:23:47 skrev Jenna Fox a...@creativepony.com: You can't use ActiveRecord with map-reduce databases anyhow, without loosing a bunch of performance and features. It's best to use

Re: Markaby + HTML5

2011-11-05 Thread Jenna Fox
If you add the line '@auto_validation = false' to the beginning of your layout, markaby aught to stop minding if you use things unspecified in xhtml. I'm not too sure if that will let you use unknown tags, or just unknown attributes. If you have any trouble getting unknown tags to work, try

Re: run my Camping app as a Rack app

2011-10-09 Thread Jenna Fox
It looks as if your application is getting a FastCGI request without the 'PATH_INFO' environment variable. I'm not too sure what to make of that. Can you try a rackup which runs this app? require 'rack' require 'pp' App = lambda do |env| body = '' PP.pp env, body [200,

Simplest easiest rss feeds?

2011-10-04 Thread Jenna Fox
I'm looking to make rss feeds of some of my controller data - what's the simplest way to render some? Is there some way I can feed a json-like arrays of hashes type of structure in to some gem and get out an xml feed? Would it be more of a builder sort of operation? — Jenna

Re: Simplest easiest rss feeds?

2011-10-04 Thread Jenna Fox
So there is! Thanks Steve! — Jenna On 05/10/2011, at 12:48 PM, Steve Klabnik wrote: There's an RSS generator in the standard library. ___ Camping-list mailing list Camping-list@rubyforge.org http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/camping-list

Re: Maintenance release of 2.1

2011-10-03 Thread Jenna Fox
for quickly prototyping ideas, and teaching beginners the concepts of the web. — Jenna On 03/10/2011, at 8:47 PM, Magnus Holm wrote: On Sun, Oct 2, 2011 at 14:26, Jenna Fox a...@creativepony.com wrote: I wouldn't bother with reducing the revision number. If anything having weirdly high ones

Re: Maintenance release of 2.1

2011-10-03 Thread Jenna Fox
. The only good things in there are either styled pretty much the same way by default (like, say, headers), or require a line of code (@basefont, layouts). -- Matma Rex 2011/10/3 Jenna Fox a...@creativepony.com: Meanwhile, have you guys seen http://twitter.github.com/bootstrap/ ? It looks pretty

Re: Teaching

2011-09-01 Thread Jenna Fox
. -Waffles On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 6:11 PM, Jenna Fox a...@creativepony.com wrote: Would you like to write some content for it Waffles? The version at http://whywentcamping.com/The-Camping-Book is a wiki - you can edit it by clicking the pencil, though you need a github account as it's a mirror

Re: Teaching

2011-08-31 Thread Jenna Fox
Everyday is WhyDay. You should know this! :D I'll email you directly with infos later. — Jenna On 31/08/2011, at 9:38 PM, Dave Everitt wrote: I think there's nothing more fun than finding noobs and teaching them how to make awesome hacks! I know some of you guys think like I do, and I want

Re: Teaching

2011-08-31 Thread Jenna Fox
Would you like to write some content for it Waffles? The version at http://whywentcamping.com/The-Camping-Book is a wiki - you can edit it by clicking the pencil, though you need a github account as it's a mirror of the camping/camping github wiki On 01/09/2011, at 9:21 AM, Anonymous Waffles

Re: A question about the ecosystem.

2011-08-30 Thread Jenna Fox
Hi Tim! Camping is a great choice. It's really lean, and quite robust and well performing. So far as rails plugins go - the default choice of database adaptors for Camping is ActiveRecord - so most ActiveRecord-related rails plugins will work. Camping doesn't have things like rail's form

Re: Help with Controllers

2011-08-29 Thread Jenna Fox
That's great that you're learning a new language. I really hope you have tons of fun and make a whole lot of neat stuff. Keep us posted, kay? On forms: The :action property is optional - if you omit it, it'll submit the form to the same URL you're currently on in your web browser. You use R()

Re: Advice on strategy for maintaining state in Camping

2011-08-25 Thread Jenna Fox
Hold up guys. This is a little web app for just you to use? not multiple users? Depending on how you deploy camping you can just stick some stuff in some class variables if you just need them in one controller, or even global variables if you want them in many places. Then all you'd need to do

Re: Feature: Simple controllers?

2011-08-25 Thread Jenna Fox
I vote revert. This is just sinatra - I feel it's important camping maintains the cleanliness and clarity of functionality given to us by using simple classes. It's something we have which AFAIK no other ruby web framework does - you know exactly how it works, because it's just a class. On

Re: Did not know you could provide a list of urls in a controller route declaration

2011-02-09 Thread Jenna Fox
Good for maintaining legacy URLs. :) —Jenna / @Bluebie On Thursday, 10 February 2011 at 11:51 AM, Tony Miller wrote: On Fri, Feb 04, 2011 at 05:37:55PM -0700, Philippe Monnet wrote: class Welcome R '/welcome', '/WelcomeEveryone' end What does this mean, that '/welcome' and

Re: controller for all javascript files?

2011-02-09 Thread Jenna Fox
class LoadScript R '/(.*).js' def get(script) @headers['Content-Type'] = 'text/javascript; charset=utf-8' return File.read(my scripts/#{script}.js); end end Keep in mind the R constructor takes a regexp, and passes the bracketed sections as arguments to the get, post, put, etc... methods on the

Re: controller for all javascript files?

2011-02-09 Thread Jenna Fox
Glad I could help. :) —Jenna / @Bluebie On Thursday, 10 February 2011 at 2:53 PM, Tony Miller wrote: Thanks Jenna, this works great! I think I understand how the R constructor works a little more now... On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 5:23 PM, Jenna Fox a...@creativepony.com wrote: class

Re: ABingo (A/B Testing framework) plugin for Camping

2011-01-24 Thread Jenna Fox
O_O — Jenna / @Bluebie On Tuesday, 25 January 2011 at 12:21 AM, Dave Everitt wrote: Hi Jenna - just checking email backlog, was going to pop something up on Phillippe's behalf, but Rack is down on whywentcamping.com :-( - Dave Everitt Hey you know it would be totally awesome if you

Re: ABingo (A/B Testing framework) plugin for Camping

2011-01-24 Thread Jenna Fox
Okay fixed. For now. *curses at shared hosting provider changing stuff!* — Jenna / @Bluebie On Tuesday, 25 January 2011 at 9:07 AM, Jenna Fox wrote: O_O — Jenna / @Bluebie On Tuesday, 25 January 2011 at 12:21 AM, Dave Everitt wrote: Hi Jenna - just checking email backlog

Re: [ANN] ABingo (A/B Testing framework) plugin for Camping

2010-12-15 Thread Jenna Fox
Hey you know it would be totally awesome if you did some posts on the camping blog at http://log.whywentcamping.com/submit about this neat stuff so we can mutually bask in whatever minor exposure that might bring. :) Give me a poke if you submit something through that so I can hit publish on

Re: Couldn't load the feed. oh well.

2010-12-08 Thread Jenna Fox
Yeah, I noticed that today too. Thanks for the heads up. Will get it sorted soon. — Jenna / @Bluebie On 09/12/2010, at 3:39 PM, Steve Klabnik st...@steveklabnik.com wrote: Hey Campers- Just a small note, I went to http://whywentcamping.com/ today, and it's saying *Latest news: **Couldn't load

Re: Couldn't load the feed. oh well.

2010-12-08 Thread Jenna Fox
Seems to be working now, so I'm just going to wave my hand and declare it to all be to do with tumblr's recent downtime problems, somehow. :S — Jenna / @Bluebie On Thursday, 9 December 2010 at 3:27 PM, Steve Klabnik wrote: Hey Campers- Just a small note, I went to

Re: Oh, whywentcamping.com!

2010-08-24 Thread Jenna Fox
), and somehow tag them as Ruby for whywentcamping.com We should probably update the RDoc template at camping.rubyforge.org, but I'm also open for re-thinking the reference section all-together. Is it really useful in its current form? // Magnus Holm On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 15:31, Jenna Fox

Re: Wiki Writing Requests!

2010-08-23 Thread Jenna Fox
Wonderful! I've ported over The Camping Book as well. Is there anything else we need sorted quickly? I'm not sure what to do about the 'reference' rdoc thingo. It seems kind of difficult to navigate to me - camping is one of the few projects I frequently read the source code of instead of web

Re: Philosophy

2010-08-23 Thread Jenna Fox
http://github.com/camping/camping/wiki/Philosophy Whatcha guys think? — Jenna ___ Camping-list mailing list Camping-list@rubyforge.org http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/camping-list

Re: What is the process for publishing to campingrb.tumblr.com?

2010-08-22 Thread Jenna Fox
esque framevork from scratch or point me in the right direction? help me creative pony, PM you're my only hope. On Sun, Aug 22, 2010 at 6:18 PM, Jenna Fox a...@creativepony.com wrote: All invited now. On 23/08/2010, at 9:43 AM, Philippe Monnet wrote: It would be great if you could

Re: Need input on proposed tweaks to www.ruby-camping.com

2010-08-21 Thread Jenna Fox
Bartosz Dziewoński wrote: Windows XP, Opera 10.61 (newest stable), 1024x768. It looks similar in Firefox 3.6 (http://imgur.com/atSts.png). Yeah. It's an artefact of Microsoft's plainly terrible type engine. I'm not sure how to fix it or even if it's possible to fix it, short of manually

Wiki Writing Requests!

2010-08-21 Thread Jenna Fox
Heya! So I'm trying to get this new website all tied up in a nice little bunch. I'm a bit silly when it comes to git-fu though. Could one of you create a page on the camping/camping wiki called 'Contributing', and put stuff in it which tells people how to do that? Use Markdown or Textile.

Re: Need input on proposed tweaks to www.ruby-camping.com

2010-08-18 Thread Jenna Fox
Okay. My web design is ready for prime time! You can see it up now at http://whitebook.mooo.com/ and http://campingrb.tumblr.com/ - keep in mind it's running off a home computer (called whitebook), so please don't send much traffic towards it. I've forked whywentcamping.com from the camping

Re: Need input on proposed tweaks to www.ruby-camping.com

2010-08-13 Thread Jenna Fox
I've yet to hear any compelling reason why that should be a separate 'site' on it's own domain name, over and away from everything else, rather than just a refresh of the existing camping homepage. You make some good points. We could write the homepage better. It's very dry at the moment. I'm

Re: Camping on StackOverflow

2010-07-25 Thread Jenna Fox
Speaking of the mailing list: rubyforge sucks! Couldn't we have something nice, like librelist? Those hackety hack guys with their fancy mailing list put ours to shame. _why is still the admin contact of this list. :| On 26/07/2010, at 12:18 AM, Dave Everitt wrote: There aren't enough

Re: Wiki vs homepage

2010-07-19 Thread Jenna Fox
like Heroku to facilitate this. Is this crazy? Any other ideas? -Philippe On 7/13/2010 8:49 PM, Jenna Fox wrote: Another passing thought: It'd be very much in the spirit of freeform fun little hacks if the camping website included a section of user created apps. They would need

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