Over the past year or so I’ve been working on an application that serves as
a framework for building a feature rich social networking site. I’ve called
this project EngineY. EngineY is a Ruby application that uses the Ruby on
Rails framework as its base. As I was building EngineY, I used a real
community site to serve as a test bed for the framework. The framework is
currently powering the Michigan Ruby Community site, which provides a central
hub for Ruby enthusiasts in Michigan. I’ve recently released the EngineY
framework as an open source project hosted at Google Code.
The framework supports a widget type of development in that each new feature
is built following the same style of implementation allowing new features to
be built up relatively quickly. This makes the... (more)
As an avid baseball fan, I’ve always been interested in the statistics that
surround baseball. More so than in any other sport, baseball is a game ruled
by statistics. In this post, I will describe a program that I wrote in the
Ruby language to generate box scores for any Major Leage Baseball(MLB) game
by using the live XML data provided by MLB. Ruby makes it easy to do using
plain Ruby ... (more)
Java, Ruby, and Rails...
It's been awhile since my last blog post. Where I have I been? What have I
been up to? Well there are a few answers to those questions. Answer one, I've
been very busy implementing an enterprise-wide web single-sign-on solution in
J2EE for Ford Motor Company. Answer two, in my spare time, I've been bitten
by the Ruby/Rails bug that seems to be spreading throughout ... (more)
My next book will be coming in early spring, most likely May, 2008 from
Wiley. The book is the Ruby on Rails Bible. The book covers the Rails
framework in detail providing an overview of the Ruby programming language,
an overview of Rails, detailed chapters on each of the major components of
Rails and a walk-through of a complete Rails application.
The book will cover Rails 2.0. Major cha... (more)
I tend to read a lot of technical books. My current passion is with the Ruby
programming language and the Rails web application framework which is built
on top of the Ruby language. I’m also a published technical author myself.
The book that I am currently writing is the Ruby on Rails Bible which will be
published by Wiley this spring. However, since that is a few months away
still, I th... (more)