Flock : The Social browser

I was just checking Firefox 3 beta 3 today, when I found about this new browser called Flock.

Its a great browser for people using services

1. Blogging
1. Blogger
2. WordPress
3. Blogsome
4. Typepad.. etc..
2. Photo Mgmt
1. Flickr
2. Picasa
3. Photobucket etc..
3. Social sites
1. Facebook
2. Twitter
3. etc..

The browser provides amazing functionality for different sites built right in. Many a tasks you would have done manually are now completely automated, thanks to new browser functionality.

Powered by Mozilla, I found it to be a very interesting browser option against Firefox.

1. Picasa on Web

Another Open source initiative…

I am starting to think of joining another open source project on RoR. Its basically a helpdesk and workflow management solution, which would be totally web based.

I have used Peregrine for quite sometime now, and therefore have a view. I feel that there are some things in the tool that can be improved and therefore the idea. Another guy in US is also working on the topic.

Currently its hosted at rSupport.googlecode.com

Adding pages to your rubyforge website

Thanks to Tim Hunter for guiding me to the faq to be able to post pages on the project website.

http://rubyforge.org/docman/view.php/5/460/faq.html

Registered at Ruby forge

The Library Mananagment System project has been registered at RubyForge. You can access the default project page at http://rubyforge।org/projects/lms
.

In coming days, I am going to explore more about the project setup on ruby forge and then update accordingly. Right now, the default virtual host that we have got is called http://lms.rubyforge.org, but it really is the default page.

Would update more, perhaps post the few pages that I have thought of on the wiki there.

Classes for Library…

More on the Library Project

Was thinking further on this and found a basic idea of the classes I would see..

1. Book
1. Properties
1. Id
2. title
3. author1
4. author2
5. author3
6. isbn no
7. language
8. type
1. printed matter [default]
2. dvd
3. CD
9. meta tags [comma delimited]
10. year of publishing
11. edition #
12. issue cycle (days)
13. No of copies
2. Methods
1. add
2. remove
3. update
4. add a copy
2. Lib Transactions
1. Properties
1. date of issue
2. member id
3. book id
4. date of return
2. Methods
1. issue book
2. return book
3. Member
1. Properties
1. Name
2. age
3. address
4. sex
2. Methods
1. Add
2. delete
3. update

Would update more…

Library Management System : Ruby on Rails

Well, I want to learn some more of rails and ruby (as much comes along).

And so I thought of building a tiny little web application to build a library management system based on rails and mysql.

The idea is that, it would be a web based application to manage the library from an staff member’s point of view. At a later stage, there would be an additional viewpoint from the library visitor, to search for books, request for issue etc…

I also intend to build a page which could be used to issue out or receive books (as a library transaction).

Here is a summary of what I have thought this application would do.. to start with…

1. Keep stock of books
1. multiple copies of book allowed
2. Allow searching for books in library
3. search on meta tags
1. Title
2. description
3. author
2. allow books to be issued out.
1. keep track of date of issue
2. Expected date of return
3. Administration
1. Allow to add books
2. Rename, replace, add remove copies etc.
4. Reports
1. Books overdue on a given date
2. Members with overdue books
3. Books that are most probable to go overdue
4. Members most responsible for overdue books
5. etc…

Well, thats the very first stage of requirement thinking that has been done.

Order for installing gems

For installing ruby on rails basic framework when u dont have access to internet, you could follow the following order of installing gems…

Install Ruby

Install RubyGems

Install different gems

1. Rake
2. ActiveSupport
3. ActionPack
4. ActionMailer
5. ActiveRecord
6. ActionWebService
7. Rails

Also found some more info on installation of rails when internet connection is actually available. Here’s the source of info, the rails wiki site

1. Installing Ruby

1. sudo apt-get install ruby irb ri rdoc ruby1.8-dev build-essential

2. Installing Ruby Gems

1. sudo apt-get install rubygems

3. Installing Rails

1. sudo gem install rails -y

4. Installing MySql

1. sudo apt-get install libmysql-ruby mysql-server libmysqlclient15-dev

2. sudo gem install mysql

Some more documentation on Ubuntu site