Thanks Railscasts!

<% flash.each do |key, msg| %>
<%= content_tag :div, msg, :id => “flash_#{key}” %>
<% end %>


One of *the* coolest things in the ever colliding worlds of Asterisk and Ruby: Adhearsion

Did you know that you can deploy your rails app with just the deploy.rb file?

Download your deploy.rb file and hit it:

[sbarber@awhpbl01 onlinerss]$ ls
deploy.rb
[sbarber@awhpbl01 onlinerss]$ RAILS_ENV=qa cap -f ./deploy.rb deploy
  * executing task deploy
  * executing task update
…


Yeah - cap rocks.

I just ran across an alternative to Pound / Pen for Mongrel balancing…
PLB.

Just registered for the Mountain West Ruby Conference to be held back in SLC, UT in March. See you there.

Apple iPhone: Will it run Ruby? Leopard will have it

Once again I’ve falled in love my MythTV. I’ve been running it for about 5 months solid now. no reboots, or big issues to deal with. A few recent tweaks: Added my ROM collection over a remote share for MythGame. New favorite mythtv theme: blootube. I transcode any new recordings to XviD (with commercial skip) and then move them to my NAS video share for future viewing.

Recent change of heart: Fav Desktop OS -> OSX. Still really love Ubuntu for servers, etc.

This time of year I love living in Arizona. Did you get snow recently? Gee… that’s too bad. I think we’re looking at 68 today. LOL!

Working on some street cred in the community. See me at: Working With Rails: People

It’s like MySpace for Rails folks

Hey - I almost presented during the lighting talks in RubyConf.

During RubyConf I had a chance to sit next to John Long of RadintCMS fame. He’s a cool guy and Radiant is awesome for simple websites. I’m using Radiant for a few of my customers simple websites.

Not to be outdone in the coding arena, here are my important contributions to RadiantCMS. I call this collection of code “Inappropriate Text Filters.”

Markdown? Textile? You got nothing on me:

Filter #1: piglatin_filter.rb
class PigLatinFilter < TextFilter::Base
register 'PigLatin'
def filter(text)
text.split.collect{|word| pig(word)}.join(" ")
end
def pig(word)
leadingCap = word =~ /^A-Z/
word.downcase!
res = case word
when /^aeiouy/
word+"way"
when /^([^aeiouy]+)(.*)/
$2+$1+"ay"
else
word
end
leadingCap ? res.capitalize : res
end
end


Filter #2: crypt_filter.rb
class CryptoFilter < TextFilter::Base
register 'Crypto'
def filter(text)
text.crypt("da_salt_")
end
end


Filter #3: reverse_filter.rb
class ReverseFilter < TextFilter::Base
register 'Reverse'
def filter(text)
text.split.collect{|word| word.reverse!}.join(" ")
end
end


Yay! I _why fixed the ticket I opened with Hpricot:

#14 (Tag parsing funky-ness, or how I learned to stop worrying and love the malformed tag) on Hpricot

The plane leaves for Denver bright and early at 6:04. See you there!