Category Archives: Code Projects

Posts about my varying and random code projects, usually in Ruby or C#.

§ Canticore - A new look at blogging engines.

I’d like to talk about blogging for a bit. I know, it’s a horrible subject that’s been done to death, but I began working on a project recently that I hope will try to provide a clean, simple, robust solution for the next generation of bloggers and programmers.

It’s called Canticore. It’s written in Ruby, and [...]

§ Gantty’s Sexy Syntax

Gantty now has wonderfully gorgeous block syntax. Check it out:

@gantt = Gantty::create do name "Project Alpha Gantt Chart" company "Awesomeco, Inc." website "http://example.com" details "This is the description of the project."   task "Complete this task" [...]

§ Textmate, RSpec, and Pending Tasks

Do you use this syntax in your RSpec files to designate pending tasks?

it "should do something"

Do you hate that the RSpec TextMate bundle borks on it and can’t find a symbol for it? You’re in luck! Grab my fork of David Chelimsky’s rspec-tmbundle and woe no more!

The best part is that pending tasks [...]

§ Gantty learns a trick: Trac to Gantt in 30 seconds flat

Gantty is growing up fast. I don’t know how it happened. One day he was perfectly content to retrieve information about GanttProject charts, and now he’s not happy unless he’s wading through and writing GanttProject files. And with this latest piece of funnery, Gantty shows off what it’s capable of.

Are you using Trac for some [...]

§ Gantty: Ruby and Gantt Charts

Well, not just any old Gantt charts. Specifically, Gantt charts created with GanttProject, a multi-platform, open source Project Management application. Charts saved in this format are easily parsed into nice neat lil Ruby objects.

You’ll need GitHub as a gem source if you don’t already have it (gem sources -a http://gems.github.com):

$ sudo gem install ardekantur-gantty

And get [...]