Form is emptiness, emptiness is form.
Just a couple of quick Ruby related updates.
Last Thursday we held our September meetup at the Friendster office in Ayala. Here are the videos of the event:
More pictures are posted at the Facebook group.
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In other news, I got around to updating RailsFTW to Rails 3.2.8, putting the installer ahead of RailsInstaller by a bunch of mini-releases. (LOL)
Updated installer can be found on the RailsFTW site.
Just posted the videos from last night’s PhRUG meetup over at the website.
Last year, I looked at the better Ruby/Rails editors in Windows. With Notepad++ version 6 released recently, I decided to check whether it’s good enough to be an alternative to those two.
Screenshot again with my depressing lotto app:
Overall, it’s ok, especially with the Explorer plugin. However, there are still a bunch of stuff I’d nitpick about:
Had a coding itch last week related to web scraping and LaTeX PDF conversion. One thing led to another and the end result was my first ever Ruby Gem:
ffnpdf, a tool that converts FanFiction.net stories into PDF files.
(Great for putting your favorite Harry Potter slash fics on your mobile phone or tablet for portable use! LOL)
The code and documentation are found at the Github page. Theoretically, this gem can work anywhere Ruby, pandoc, and XeTeX can be installed (e.g. Windows, OS X, *nix) but I’ve only been able to make the whole thing work in Ubuntu/Mint.
Demo and how-tos are posted in this playlist:
I haven’t gotten around to make a license for this, but I assume that anyone into fanfiction knows that publishing and selling fanfics without consent from the rights owner is a big no-no. Thus, I don’t need remind them that this tool is just for personal use and not for commercial purposes.
My Game Jam post is waaay overdue but some stuff happened this week (impromptu upgrade, server migration) so I’ll only get around to post about it probably later today.
Anyway, this post is just about the new version up over at RailsFTW. This experimental build is based on TCS’s patched Ruby build which boasted a ~200% increase in performance.
See it for yourself: