Rails Graphing, RJS and Back from the states
Yup, finally back from California after a nice 3 week trip. Lovely weather, great people and I’m glad I had the chance to visit old family and frineds. Good times indeed. But it is also great to be back in Europe as well, time to get back into schedule and focus on things.
Over the paste 3 weeks I’ve gotten amazing feedback on SugarStats along with a bit more clarity on some of the feature sets and the overall direction of the website / business. I also found a great new Ruby on Rails graphing library called Scruffy. We’re using the Gruff Graphing library at the moment, but we might incorporate Scruffy as well as it looks very flexible.
I’m also going to be doing a full RJS (Ruby Javascript) implementation for SugarStats.com as well. For the most part its partially Ajax, but once I do this the core of the application will have a great desktop application feel to it. As a matter of fact, if you want to get your hand into RJS but haven’t, I can recomment the peepcode.com video tutorial that was just released. I bought it for a cheap $9 and it is well worth it. It’s broken down into section and does a good job of covering the basics and giving examples of how to apply the technology. Heres a snip from the website:
“This 50 minute Quicktime video tutorial shows you how to use the basic RJS methods from scratch. You’ll be adding to your skills and using RJS to make more responsive and interactive applications”
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Posted on August 20, 2006
Filed Under Business, Daily Thoughts, Design, Ruby on Rails, Startup, SugarStats, Tech, Travel, Web
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Marston – glad to hear that you dig PeepCode. I’ve been wanting to check it out, and am glad to see a positive review.
Also, thanks for the pointer to Scruffy. That looks really nice.
Hope all is well,
Michael