Rails Rumble 2009 – we’ve built nybbl.me
Phew! That was exciting. Rails Rumble 2009 – the 48 hour web application development competition- is over.
We teamed up with Rany (aka @purzelrakete) to build the best team I can imagine.
Our idea is as simple as powerful: (from your team description)
nybbl.me is a microlearning plattform. get twitter sized nibbles of information sent to you, like “you can parse json 2x as fast with the yajl-ruby gem. check it on github.”. choose a set, like “rails active record”, and get schooled over the next days.
create, share and remix nybbl sets, and get them pushed to your iphone. if you prefer, you can grab them per email or sms, too.
nybbl is learning, the easy way: sweat not included.
Think of your private teacher who teaches you in twitter sized micro lessons throughout the day.
Everyone can create those sets of lessons and publish them on the nybbl app store. Most of the sets are free but publishers can choose a price between 0.99$ and 9.99$.
nybbl.me will deliver these nybbls to every subscriber via iphone push notification, sms, twitter or email.
We will post more information and a screencast about nybbl.me in the next days.
For now you should check out nybbl.me and all the incredible apps that were built within the 2 days.
A huge thanks goes out to all the organizers and sponsors of the Rails Rumble for the awesome weekend.
Static content in your Rails application
Our heros over at thoughtbot.com blogged about static pages and their newly released Rails engine high_voltage. High Voltage helps you dealing with simple, stupid static content pages that nobody wants but everyone needs. ;) (With static pages I’m thinking of imprint, about us, etc.)
In our projects we had a similar solution but to edit the pages more easily and without the need to deploy the whole application we’re saving the content in the database.
Because the database part was missing in high_voltage but I’ve really liked the idea to extract that feature into a rails engine I’ve created a fork last night.
My fork checks if there is a valid template file in views/pages/ – if not it checks the Database and renders the views/pages/show template.
How to use it?
Installation
script/plugin install git://github.com/bumi/high_voltage.git
Create pages
this is up to you. ;)
You can add static files to your app/views/pages/ directory or create a database entry:
HighVoltage::Page.create(:title => "Hello world", :body => "High Voltage! High Voltage!")
That’s it!
For more information check the original thoughtbot post” – You should follow their blog anyway! – And have a look at the readme.
Hope you like my addons.
What are your solutions for static pages?