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2008 Live Election Results Map

Posted on the November 4th, 2008 under Interesting by

2008 Live Election Results Map – Mouse over and or click the state…

Obama won, hope he does the right thing.

Quick Ruby On Rails Tip for Nested Resources

Posted on the November 1st, 2008 under My Projects,Remodeling,Ruby on Rails by

Just a quick tip for when you are doing nested resources….

In this example, I am building a app for a client where there is a recipient and they have many physicians. So I have a case where I have a nested resource. To keep thing DRY, I added this to my before filter where I get the recipient. This allows you to nuke the find in the show, edit, update and delete actions and retain the original use of @physician. 

def get_recipient
  @recipient = Recipient.find(params[:recipient_id])
  # DRYs her up a little so you don't have a find in the show,edit,update and delete actions	
  @physician = @recipient.physicians.find(params[:id]) if params[:id]
end

Don’t forget to modify your index find, change it to reflect the nested route… In my case:

    @physicians = @recipient.physicians.find(:all)

Have any other useful tips? Let me know!

Rails Rumble 2008 App List

Posted on the October 19th, 2008 under programming,Ruby on Rails by

Put together a small list of apps I saw today that are part of the Rails Rumble 2008.

Let me know if I missed any by adding a comment.  Check out http://blog.railsrumble.com/ – I am sure they will post an official list shortly.

*** The list keeps growing!

http://meetinbetween.us/ – Car pooling site

http://tunemuncher.com/ – Music artist tracking site, shows latest ablums from artists you like.

http://wurbe.r08.railsrumble.com/ – Conference organization?

http://foodferret.com/ – A service that finds the right food for you?

http://likis.r08.railsrumble.com/ – Social language learning

http://chicago.r08.railsrumble.com/ – Simple presentations

http://so2speak.net – RSS / Webservices to speach

http://wethepeople.r08.railsrumble.com/ – Political news?

http://myideadrawer.r08.railsrumble.com/ – Organize, collect, and share your projects

http://pug.r08.railsrumble.com/ – Pickup game locator

http://a8.r08.railsrumble.com/ – A solution for managing projects from proposal, through build stage, to getting paid.

http://dontsendit.r08.railsrumble.com/ – Delayed email sending?

http://maestro.r08.railsrumble.com/ – Music Create / Sharing app

http://notifly.r08.railsrumble.com/ – Easily integrate communication services into your app

http://jotlyapp.com/ – Blogging app

http://run1mile.com – A program to get your from nothing to running one mile

http://iheartgames.r08.railsrumble.com/ – A social application where you list your games and connect with your friends to play games.

http://billelle.r08.railsrumble.com – Unknown

http://greatminds.r08.railsrumble.com/ – A co-operative word game for two or more players

http://www.loveloathe.com/ – Lists of things you love and hate.

http://poolr.r08.railsrumble.com/ – Find a car pool

http://sellyourattention.r08.railsrumble.com/ – Build a potato man

http://gtd.r08.railsrumble.com/ –  task / GTD app

http://twalala.com – Web based twitter client

http://hikedit.r08.railsrumble.com/ – Hiking fan site, find trails

http://stickyboard.r08.railsrumble.com/ – No idea what this is – a wall of randomness?

http://milliontagcloud.r08.railsrumble.com/ – donation app

http://osc.r08.railsrumble.com/ – Treasuring hunting w/SMS

http://foodistic.com – Track what you eat

http://www.playubetcha.com/ – online game where you can wager points on real-world events

http://storyseed.r08.railsrumble.com/ – create, publish, read and rate stories

http://citenow.r08.railsrumble.com/ – Keeps track of your citations on books, journals and websites.

http://rio.r08.railsrumble.com/ – pics of your diet (food)

http://goodbad.me/ – see all the good and bad stuff in the Twitterverse

http://inspiresme.r08.railsrumble.com/home –  say who inspirse you

http://pranziamo.r08.railsrumble.com/ – Lunch recommendations

http://diedebtdie.r08.railsrumble.com/ – provides you with tools and motivation to get you out of the red…and back in the black.

http://qflip.r08.railsrumble.com/ – Qflip is an app that integrates with the netflix api that helps people to rent randomly.

http://couldya.r08.railsrumble.com/ – Its a way to get help with things using your social network.

http://ir.r08.railsrumble.com/ -Latte Art with ratings

http://ideasftw.com – An idea incubator.

http://sheepfit.r08.railsrumble.com/ – a stretch reminder

http://www.rubyreddo.com – RubyReddo is a service to translate your GetText .po files

http://justafinlist.r08.railsrumble.com/ – Just A F***ing List

http://dense.r08.railsrumble.com/ – Dense is a simple slideshop app

http://remindr.info – Effortless one-click reminder about pretty much anything

http://ostraka.r08.railsrumble.com/ – Ostraka is the digital counterpart of ancient democratic instrument of ostracism.

http://tagueame.r08.railsrumble.com/ – Tagueame is a little experiment about socializing online opinions about your friends and family.

http://a8.r08.railsrumble.com/ – A business related app for project management, time reporting, invoicing with built in chat rooms.

http://wheresthemilkat.r08.railsrumble.com/ – find out who’s got the best prices, and where they are

http://ndebted.com – A service for tracking and sharing debts with friends

http://assassin.r08.railsrumble.com – The assassin game

Another great list of Rails Rumble 2008 apps  – > http://48hrlaunch.wordpress.com/2008/10/20/rails-rumble-2008-apps/

http://revealthebias.r08.railsrumble.com/ – Reveal the Bias