http://usefulfor.com/ruby ruby goodness for your daily needs Thu, 13 Nov 2008 11:20:06 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The new release of dradis is going to use the ExtJS library for the web interface. ExtJS provides lots of JavaScript widgets useful to create complex GUI for web applications. This is the first of a series of posts with small tips and tricks of ExtJS that will also address its ... http://usefulfor.com/ruby/2008/11/12/extjs-combobox-remote-xml/ I attended Rails Conf 2008 in Berlin on the 3rd and 4th of September 2008. Following is a quick summary of the talks that I attended. There are loads interesting things going on in the Rails community. My opinion is very biased but I believe the Ruby on Rails community ... http://usefulfor.com/ruby/2008/09/11/rails-conf-2008/ Intro On a recent project I was challenged with the task to create a Windows installer for Dradis, an application that I have been contributing to. After a bit of research it seemed like our answer was in using NSIS (Nullsoft Scriptable Install System) to assist us in this task. NSIS in ... http://usefulfor.com/ruby/2008/07/19/ruby-installer-in-nsis-using-hm-nis-edit-part-1/ Picking it up were we left it on restful_authentication howto, step-by-step (part 1) the second article of this series is a hands on example on how to use the restful_authentication plugin. Things that will be covered include: remove the need of a login the use of an activation email, ... http://usefulfor.com/ruby/2008/06/06/restful_authentication-howto-step-by-step-part-2/ There are more than a hundred thousand different ways of implementing authentication in ruby on rails. Authentication in the rails world is definetly not for the faint hearted. After some random reading through the rails wiki it seemed quite clear that there is one winner: acts_as_authenticated. However, after including this ... http://usefulfor.com/ruby/2008/05/17/restful_authentication-step-by-step-part-1/ In this article I want to discuss a way of storing and retrieving the configuration settings of a ruby application. The first thing you need to decide is whether you want to store your settings in a database, a XML file, a YAML,... Since this is not an easy choice we ... http://usefulfor.com/ruby/2008/04/17/ruby-application-configuration-settings/ I have created a small Ruby on Rails application to keep track of my personal "ToDo" list of tasks. The idea is to split your different tasks into categories (i.e. important & urgent, no important & urgent, etc.) and have a web front end in which you can get a ... http://usefulfor.com/ruby/2008/01/24/ruby-todo-list/ As a side result of my work with dradis during the last months, I've been working on some technical sessions that will be grouped in what could be called a "ruby workshop". The first of this sessions is on ruby + Qt programming and is available now. Slides can ... http://usefulfor.com/ruby/2007/12/17/ruby-workshop-the-way-of-the-qt-samurai/ The aim of Net::DHCP (hosted at RubyForge) is to provide a set of classes to low level handle the specifics of DHCP (rfc2131, rfc2132, etc.) in ruby. With Net::DHCP you will be able to craft custom DHCP packages and have access to all the fields defined for the protocol. The Dynamic ... http://usefulfor.com/ruby/2007/11/05/netdhcp/ rComic is a small script to download and display Internet comic strips. To add new strips, you only need to modify the config file. And it is an interesting exercise to play with the Net::HTTP and YAML libraries. rComic makes use of two external programs: wget and display for downloading and ... http://usefulfor.com/ruby/2007/10/23/rcomic-comic-strip-downloader/