uRaNGaTaNG » ruby on rails http://www.rngtng.com Featuring Ruby, Rails, Web development, Arduino, Processing, Nabaztag and more... Thu, 12 Jan 2012 10:08:01 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 HowTo: ultra mega fast rails routes lookup http://www.rngtng.com/2011/03/16/howto-ultra-mega-fast-rails-routes-lookup/ http://www.rngtng.com/2011/03/16/howto-ultra-mega-fast-rails-routes-lookup/#comments Wed, 16 Mar 2011 16:34:00 +0000 tobi http://www.rngtng.com/?p=538

I was quite annoyed by the wasted time it took each time I grep the rails routes table.
Wait, can’t this be cached? – Sure it can!
So I came up this nice little alias to cache the output once:

alias route='CF=tmp/routes_cache; [[ ! -s $CF ]] && rake routes > $CF; cat $CF | grep '

now it’s ultra fast, try e.g.:

$ route root

bang!

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After having enjoyed a wonderful summer with lot of travels and being in more or less ‘offline’ mode, I’m back ‘online’ and I started my new Job at soundcloud.com.

It’s like Fickr but for Music – upload your tracks and share them among the community and fans.

It’s kick ass! ;-) Take a look around the office, check this out: http://www.wechsellook.com/post/read/90

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class Spaceship < ActiveRecord::Base
  include FlagShihTzu

  has_flags 1 => :warpdrive,
            2 => :shields

end

enterprise = Spaceship.new
enterprise.warpdrive = true
enterprise.shields = false
enterprise.save

enterprise.warpdrive? #=> true
enterprise.shields? # => false

Nice, isn’t it?

Unfortunately named scopes where missing for selecting models easily. So another github fork, another fix, and here were are. Now this works as well:

Spaceship.flagged(:warpdrive).not_flagged(:shields).all

Check it out here: http://github.com/rngtng/flag_shih_tzu/tree/master

Update: replaced ‘routes’ with ‘scopes’ – I’m getting confused with that all the time, how come!? ;-)

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Comatose (29. June 2007)
Comatose is a micro CMS designed for being embedded into existing Rails applications

http://railsbased.org/projects/8-Comatose.html

Geego
Geego is for developers and designers that want to provide fully updatable websites for their clients.

http://www.geegocms.com/

Mephisto (27. July 2006)
Complete Blog System, Mephisto is a publishing system that makes it super easy to setup a blog or website.

http://mephistoblog.com/

Typo
Complete Blog System, Similar to Mephisto

http://wiki.github.com/fdv/typo/

Radiant CMS
Radiant is a no-fluff, open source content management system designed for small teams.
Looks cool but no direkt RoR integration?

http://radiantcms.org/

Railfrog (3. July 2007)
Railfrog is a user-friendly, open-source website deployment and content management system built with Ruby on Rails.
dead project?!

http://railfrog.com/

Rubricks (31. July 2007)
Rubricks is a component based open source CMS powered by Ruby on Rails.

http://rubricks.org/

Seymore (04/02/2007)
Seymore is an open source content management system which integrates directly into pages.

http://www.slicedsoftware.com/software/seymore/

SimpleCMS, (29. December 2007),
small simple, inline edit. Simple CMS is a very easy to use and pretty advanced CMS plugin.

http://pullmonkey.com/2007/12/30/simple-cms-plugin-for-rails-demo

CMSPlugin
CMSplugin provides your Rails application with a “CMS framework”. That means authentication, authorization, roles, permissions, categories, tags, etcÂ… but from a very flexible scope.

http://cmsplugin.rubyforge.org

open rcms (25.6.2007)

http://rcms.oopen.de/Home/

Roxanne
An in-place editor for your entire website. Roxanne is a simple Site-Management Tool to quickly manage your content. See first steps to get the idea behind Roxanne.

http://www.m42.ch/projects/roxanne/information.php

Substruct
The first and most robust Ruby on Rails open source e-commerce project.

http://code.google.com/p/substruct/

Goldberg (promising)

http://www.goldberg.240gl.org

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