\nMountain West Ruby Conference: SBN
\nTag: mtnwestruby
\n16 March 2007\n<\/p>\n
\nJames Britt – Black-boxing with Ruby\n<\/p>\n
\nReinventing the wheel is overrated. Why not reuse what other people have already implemented, even from other languages?<\/p>\n
\nTrac: A good project tracking system. Requires too much use of the mouse.
\nWhat if: I could use Trac from the command line? Tracula.\n<\/p>\n
Tracula is written in Ruby and uses Hpricot & Mechanize to pretend to be a web browser. Unfortunately, tracula is brittle because the web page UI tends to change — it’s not an API they’re publishing. Many features are missing from Tracula, but that’s ok — he writes the functionality as he needs it, and stubs out missing behavior with hardcoded values.\n<\/p>\n
\nTracula acts as a proxy, so the code using tracula doesn’t break just because trac changes.\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\nWordPress: A best of breed web log system.
\nWhat if: I could have the great comment system for the Django Book?
\nwww.djangobook.com. Uses Yahoo UI and Yahoo.EXT.
\nComet is written in Ruby. Comments made by users are redirected via Apache modprox through comet, which takes the comment, and posts it to WordPress.<\/p>\n
\nLessons learned:<\/p>\n
\nTechniques:<\/p>\n
Mountain West Ruby Conference: SBN Tag: mtnwestruby 16 March 2007 James Britt – Black-boxing with Ruby Reinventing the wheel is overrated. Why not reuse what other people have already implemented, even from other languages? Trac: A good project tracking system. Requires too much use of the mouse. What if: I could use Trac from the … <\/p>\n