Comments on Battlehorse!

Comment by kristjan on "Dokuwiki Template"

kristjan at yandex dot ru (kristjan) — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 02:50:52 -0500

the link at the Dokuwiki’s site is not okej. http://www.dokuwiki.org/template:battlehorse is the new.

Comment by Riccardo Govoni on "02-Nov: Borg 2.0 is out!"

battlehorse at gmail dot com (Riccardo Govoni) — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 20:21:32 -0500

This is a comment just to verify that everything is still working on the new deployed host.

Comment by sonar on "RailTrackr: a Rails 2.0 Flickr Browser."

sonar — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 20:03:02 -0500

finally the problem is gone. RailsTrackr just can’t work with proxys for now, so after enabling the proxy support, everything works just fine. However, in IE I’ve noticed numerous JS errors and still there are some problems with the slideshow on the left side of the screen.

Comment by Riccardo Govoni on "RailTrackr: a Rails 2.0 Flickr Browser."

battlehorse at gmail dot com (Riccardo Govoni) — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 20:03:02 -0500

@sonar: thanks for looking into this. If you changed something to make proxies work, can you send the code to me, so that I can integrate it into the source code?

If you feel like you want to contribute to the development, just drop me a mail and I’ll add you to the developers group on assembla.com/spaces/railtrackr .

Regarding, the IE rendering problems… yeah, I know about them. At the moment I’m just working on firefox. See http://www.assembla.com/spaces/railtrackr/tickets/8

Comment by Riccardo Govoni on "RailTrackr: a Rails 2.0 Flickr Browser."

battlehorse at gmail dot com (Riccardo Govoni) — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 20:03:02 -0500

sonar: this is strange. I’m trying to figure it out (Flickr seems sometime to use two usernames for a given user). You can try using mine (battlehorse2002) or another one I used for the tests (floridapfe) directly on www.railtrackr.com .

Comment by takahashi on "RailTrackr: a Rails 2.0 Flickr Browser."

lightspeed@spookyinteraction.com (takahashi) — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 20:03:02 -0500

Hello.I’m safari user. I could not see the picture of www.railtrackr.com. Is it specification or did I have to do something ?

Comment by sonar on "RailTrackr: a Rails 2.0 Flickr Browser."

serpian@mail.ru (sonar) — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 20:03:02 -0500

“battlehorse2002” doesn’t work for me either. Moreover, in my local application I can’t see a slidewhow on the left side of the screen, as it’s on www.railtrackr.com

Comment by sonar on "RailTrackr: a Rails 2.0 Flickr Browser."

serpian@mail.ru (sonar) — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 20:03:02 -0500

Ok, then I need some additional pointers. Local server always reports “User not found” for my Flickr username. Why this might happen?

Comment by hugo on "Dokuwiki Template"

hugoeraso@gmail.com (hugo) — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 20:03:02 -0500

esta bueno

Comment by Riccardo Govoni on "RailTrackr: a Rails 2.0 Flickr Browser."

battlehorse at gmail dot com (Riccardo Govoni) — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 20:03:02 -0500

I’ve already modified the source code to accept also email addresses (see http://www.assembla.com/spaces/railtrackr/tickets/11 ), so that ‘strange’ usernames shouldn’t be a problem anymore. www.railtrackr.com still needs to be updated to use the latest code.

Comment by Paolo on "RailTrackr: a Rails 2.0 Flickr Browser."

paolo.bastia at gmail dot com (Paolo) — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 20:03:02 -0500

Like Sonar, I had a “User not found” problem but the matter is that you have to check and type careful your ‘screen name’, for example mine is “bastiart (42gallery)” I didn’t realize the two spaces between words, not rendered in html page.

Comment by Ye on "RailTrackr: a Rails 2.0 Flickr Browser."

Ye — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 20:03:02 -0500

The screencast and demo look really cool! I will try it out. Good work!

Comment by Riccardo Govoni on "RailTrackr: a Rails 2.0 Flickr Browser."

battlehorse at gmail dot com (Riccardo Govoni) — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 15:27:02 -0400

Answer to the questions: yes, this is a full source code distribution. The application does not use the database layer, since it delegates everything to flickr calls.

I admit that tests and documentation are missing … my fault. The project has been created to demonstrate rails 2.0 in this DevX.com article ( http://www.devx.com/opensource/Article/37416? ), and so I focused only on the ‘working part’ .

I’m working on it and I will soon move the code to a svn hosting and start filling the gaps.

The available documentation is all comprised in the devx article I cited. Refer to that one as the initial source of infos.

Comment by sonar on "RailTrackr: a Rails 2.0 Flickr Browser."

serpian@mail.ru (sonar) — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 15:27:02 -0400

Is this a full source code distribution? I can’t see any db-related stuff inside the archive….

Comment by Thomas on "RailTrackr: a Rails 2.0 Flickr Browser."

tomk32@tomk32.de (Thomas) — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 15:27:02 -0400

Also tests and a documentation, or at least a README_FOR_APP is missing…

unit tests are fun!

Comment by Riccardo Govoni on "10-Mar: RailTrackr: Rails 2.0 meets Flickr!"

battlehorse at gmail dot com (Riccardo Govoni) — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 15:27:02 -0400

Yes, I’ll have a working demo soon on this website. I have only to solve a couple of issues with my provider currently not supporting Rails 2.0 … and therefore I have to play a bit with freezing gems.

Comment by Riccardo Govoni on "12-Mar: RailTrackr article has been published on DevX"

battlehorse at gmail dot com (Riccardo Govoni) — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 15:27:02 -0400

Hi Robert, thanks for your tips. I’ll forward them to DevX.com to have the article updated.

Point 2) is a bit strange, since when developing the sample I’ve never touched nor configured the database and everything worked … can you send to my mail address the steps you followed and the error message that Rails printed out? I’ll investigate on that.

Unfortunately the Pastie link was working the night before publishing the article. That resource is currently out of my control, but I hope it will recover soon. “Pastie” is just a sort of public clipboard when lots of people dump there their scripts. This particular one just scans the ruby files of your rails application applying regexps to find out potentially troublesome function calls (such as deprecated or obsolete ones).

Comment by Robert Pierce on "12-Mar: RailTrackr article has been published on DevX"

robert at c3mediagroup dot com (Robert Pierce) — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 15:27:02 -0400

I enjoyed reading through the article and watching the screencast. Nice work. Thank you.

Couple of minor observations:

(1) The “flickr_helper.rb” file, as described on page 2 is located in the /lib folder, not in the /config directory (which is where I went looking for it, or in the source code root (which is where the article text kind of led you to believe it might be)

(2) Nothing worked until a database stub was setup and migrated; a point not addressed in the setup steps.

(3) The initial page load at localhost:3000 took quite awhile while (I assume) the connection and files from Flickr were being setup. You might make a mention of this in the article.

(4) The “Pastie” link is down.

Comment by bhaarat on "10-Mar: RailTrackr: Rails 2.0 meets Flickr!"

bhaarat.s@gmail.com (bhaarat) — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 15:27:02 -0400

this is pretty cool!!

do you plan on having a live demo anytime soon?

Comment by Thomas on "RailTrackr: a Rails 2.0 Flickr Browser."

tomk32@tomk32.de (Thomas) — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 15:27:02 -0400

before anyone else starts searching: get the key here and put it into lib/flickr_helper.rb http://www.flickr.com/services/api/keys/

One thing I really miss are links back to flickr.