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Should I just go to SourceForge and try to find something that looks interesting by doing a search? Or is there a Ruby-specific website that helps you to find open source projects to contribute to?
After you find it one, do you usually just send an email to the project owner to see if you can help or do you just start submitting code to their repository and they will take it or leave it after reviewing it for quality?
The standard hosting site for Ruby projects is RubyForge. Another site that is slightly older than RubyForge, is the Ruby Application Archive (RAA). In addition to RubyForge, there are also a lot of Ruby projects hosted on SourceForge. Projects that are specific or related to JRuby, are sometimes hosted on CodeHaus or Sun's new project hosting site Kenai. For IronRuby, some projects live on CodePlex. Projects that use the Git Version Control System, are often hosted on either Gitorious or GitHub, whereas projects that use the Darcs Version Control System tend to be self-hosted.
However, especially larger Ruby projects often have their own infrastructure, e.g. Merb, DataMapper and of course Ruby on Rails.
I'd recommend going onto github to look for projects. You can search around, check things out easily and its easier for the project owner to manager your changes.
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I am evaluating biicode in my organization.
I started this activity last year in september but did not continue because of other pressing concerns. I have resumed the same now.
It seems biicode has shut down their operations. None of their help links seem to be working. The login page as well as signup page are dead.
Is there anyone using biicode nowadays or is it dead?
Yes, biicode is closed. While you are evaluating options you can take a look to conan project and conan.io. It's an full open source project with a lot of community contributions right now.
Conan uses a more direct (and easier) approach to library dependencies management than biicode, supporting both binary packages as building from source.
Biicode as a company has shutdown. The central biicode servers have been closed, and will no longer operate. The current pages, blogs, etc, that can be seen are in fact static pages captured and hosted in github, thats why it is impossible to login/register. There are no support people (in fact no employees at all) since July 2015. If you still have interest, it is an OSS project (MIT), included the server, if you want to run biicode, you have to run your own server.
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I have following concern:
I should creat a application for a documentation tool (Tex/Word files to a final PDF). This tool requires a GUI and I would really love to write it in my fav programming lang Ruby.
The main problem while asking my friend google was: every question was asked 3+ years ago and/or the libraries are outdated.
So is there a nice way to get a GUI with Ruby on Mac/Linux and Windows (it would not bother me to create two different interfaces). Or are some better solutions out there (please no .java)
(Ruby on Rails could be a solution, but only browserbased ...)
Would be happy for your Ideas and Solutions :)
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bMalum
I grepped #ruby channel logs and found that people often recommend Shoes framework for Ruby GUI apps.
Since Shoes makes use of JRuby, it requires Java to run. It shouldn't be a problem if your software is intended for regular people, as Java is installed on most computers anyway.
GitHub: https://github.com/shoes/shoes4
Some tutorial: http://pragtob.wordpress.com/2013/07/17/shoes-4-a-progress-report/
While there are some Ruby solutions for GUI, I would go for writing a Rails Web application and wrapping it with node-webkit instead. You will have a separate window for the application so it's kind of a native app, not a webapp. ;)
Please note you will need to bundle both node.js and Ruby binaries for the platforms you want to support. The most popular approach for node-webkit wrapped apps is AngularJS - then you don't have to bundle Ruby.
I have created a Gem LibUI for creating small GUI tools in Ruby. You can try it out if you like.
https://github.com/kojix2/libui
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I have been wondering why so many coders have bad organization in their documents.
I think I know why.
As usual it has to do with standardization. If no standard it out there, everyone has to reinvent the wheel all the time.
So I upload a gem at RubyGems.org. But that was only 1/4 of it all.
I have to write a tutorial for it, making categories, text style, size, color etc
I have to generate API documentation from my code
I have to put it in Git-hub (never done this, but that should be correct?)
It's a painful process.
Wouldn't it be great if every gem followed the same documentation structure. You upload your gem, you write a documentation for it that everyone can edit, the API documentation has been generated too, maybe created automatically, if you provided your account information for example.
A good process.
I think that would boost up good collaboration and environment than every gem has its own structure (bad documentations) and putting API documentation here and there.
Don't you agree?
Would be nice if it were more of a style like that. It's worked well for wiki's having the content changeable by the community. I've found that gem documentation can be hit or miss sometimes. I think having the documentation editable would be good because people could rewrite parts that are unclear making it much more user friendly
Great suggestion!
This kind of documentation (tutorial, non-generated doc, ...) is better addressed by a wiki.
Most of the public source container out there now integrates one in their features.
GitHub recently improves its own wiki system.
It also proposes GitHub pages (for publishing content to the web by simply pushing content to one of your GitHub hosted repositories, with user pages or project pages, and with Jekyll for even more Makdown file formats)
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I'm looking for a web application to manage tasks (not necessary programming-oriented) for a small team. It must be easy to setup and maintain, and I don't look for an SaaS solution. It must offer file upload and mail users in case of a change. There is hundred of solutions available but most are too complex for what we want or are not "stable" (not updated since a long time, not very well programmed). i was wondering if stack overflow's folks have some recommendations...
Try:
lighthouse - http://lighthouseapp.com/
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gemini - http://www.countersoft.com/home.aspx
We had a very similar requirement and after much searching we eventually decided on Redmine.
Does all that you require and more. Setup couldn't be easier if you use one of the Bitnami stacks. We went down the virtual image route as we had a VMWare server - but installers for existing platforms are also available.
I tried Basecamp some time ago but I don't need a web based solution. But it was pretty good.
http://basecamphq.com/
Redmine is a great project management, used by many open source projects. It is also quite actively maintained and really stable.
It's worth mentioning that even though Redmine is software oriented, it can easily be used as a project management software. All you have to do is ignore all the parts about repositories and you have a full-fledged project management software.
http://www.redmine.org/
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My next project will be a lightweight PHP alternative to Trac, since Trac is often confusing to install and is often a little too big or feature-rich for smaller project.
Features planned so far:
Wiki
Bug tracker
Forum(s)
Static pages (easily edited of course)
Markdown support
No code repo hosting (I consider this a feature since most people would prefer to use a 3rd party such as GitHub for the actual code hosting)
My question: if you were to use a self-hosted app for making a website about one of your open source projects, what would you want? Is there anything on that list that's missing? Would you absolutely require the ability to actually host the code repo on the site itself, or would you be ok hosting the code elsewhere (Google Code, GitHub, BitBucket), and using the site only to upload major versions?
Summary: if you were to use a self-hosted app to provide info and support for an open source project of yours, what would you want it to be like?
Redmine is my current favorite, I usually install it via BitNami