Posted by acts_as_flinn
Sun, 04 Feb 2007 05:25:00 GMT
I’ve been mulling over the best way to manage the many plugins I use that have external svn repositories. Luckily Piston makes light work of vendor branch management in rails.
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Here’s a rundown:
$ gem install --include-dependencies piston
$ cd $your_rails_project_cwd
$ piston convert
Importing 'http://svn.techno-weenie.net/projects/plugins/acts_as_versioned' to vendor/plugins/acts_as_versioned (-r 2691)
Exported r2691 from 'http://svn.techno-weenie.net/projects/plugins/acts_as_versioned' to 'vendor/plugins/acts_as_versioned'
...
$ svn proplist --verbose vendor/plugins/acts_as_versioned/
Properties on 'vendor/plugins/acts_as_versioned':
piston:root : http://svn.techno-weenie.net/projects/plugins/acts_as_versioned
piston:local-revision : 19
piston:uuid : 567b1171-46fb-0310-a4c9-b4bef9110e78
piston:remote-revision : 2691
Now, when I deploy my app with capistrano or check out a cwd with subversion I’ll grab revision 2691 of acts_as_versioned instead of a newer revision that I haven’t tested with my app.
Ok, great I could have done something similar by hand, but Piston makes handling the large number of plugins very easy to deal with super easy to manage updates.
Problem Solved. Thank you Piston developer François Beausoleil!
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Posted by acts_as_flinn
Thu, 01 Feb 2007 02:25:00 GMT
One of the biggest missing features of Rails has been the lack of a reporting tool. Dynamic reporting is a pain in just about any language, but particularly with Rails because of predefined views and railsish renderings. Views are great when working with predefined sets of data derived from ActiveRecord.
Unfortunately it isn’t easy to dynamically query and render resulting data sets.
Ruport has been around for some time now, but until now hasn’t had a sweet rails plugin to convert ActiveRecord data to ruport data collections.
Along comes acts_as_reportable...
With acts_as_reportable you can do really cool stuff like this:
class Part < ActiveRecord::Base
acts_as_reportable
belongs_to :account
belongs_to :category
end
class Category < ActiveRecord::Base
acts_as_reportable
has_many :parts
end
class Account < ActiveRecord::Base
acts_as_reportable
has_many :parts
has_many :categories, :through => :parts
end
class ReportsController < ApplicationController
def index
parts = Part.report_table(:all, :include => [:account, :category])
# Remove non content columns
parts.column_names.each{ |c| parts.remove_column(:name => c) if c =~ /(.id|_id|_count)$/ }
# Convert table headings
parts.column_names = parts.column_names.collect{ |cn| cn.gsub(/\./, ' ').titleize }
render :text => parts.as(:html), :layout => true
end
end
See the results here
The possibilities here are pretty awesome. To make this work really well, we could very easily create a form to add conditions to a find. Combine it with something like the ez_where plugin and you’ve got some pretty powerful reporting functionality.
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Posted by acts_as_flinn
Mon, 01 Jan 2007 16:28:00 GMT
Welcome to 2007! We’re all excited about big things coming up in the year. This month we are rolling out the TRAQInventory.com beta and we’re working on some other super secret projects to add to our inventory management services.
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