Comments on: Creating a Twitter Clone in Rails – Part 5

By: Grabbing the Bird by the Horns « Moreover Technologies – Company Blog

Grabbing the Bird by the Horns « Moreover Technologies – Company Blog — Thu, 14 Apr 2011 19:41:00 +0000

[...] can make their very own clone of Twitter, but not everyone has what it takes to confront the Social Media giant head-on. [...]

By: arzvi

arzvi — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 17:38:29 +0000

thanks for the link, but the page is not opening. Loved the screenshots, need more from the author

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 12:38:00 +0000

thanks for the link, but the page is not opening. Loved the screenshots, need more from the author

By: Greg

Greg — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 02:21:25 +0000

The 6 movie is here
http://www.teachmetocode.com/screencasts/creati...

Great job, This was a great project to learn the fundimentals of rails

on the git the scr did not work the first time friends_of.count bombed the the include/_side_contents.html.erb
replaced with friends_of.length and page worked out of the box.

By: Greg

Greg — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 21:21:00 +0000

The 6 movie is here
http://www.teachmetocode.com/screencasts/creating-a-twitter-clone-in-rails-part-6-of-6.m4v

Great job, This was a great project to learn the fundimentals of rails

on the git the scr did not work the first time friends_of.count bombed the the include/_side_contents.html.erb
replaced with friends_of.length and page worked out of the box.

By: Eric Berry

Eric Berry — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 23:54:51 +0000

I double checked the rights on this screencast, but it should work. Does anyone else have problems viewing this? You can also download the screencasts directly if you prefer. Thanks for the heads up!

By: Dom

Dom — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 23:26:05 +0000

Part 6 doesnt work :s great screencast!

By: Eric Berry

Eric Berry — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 18:54:00 +0000

I double checked the rights on this screencast, but it should work. Does anyone else have problems viewing this? You can also download the screencasts directly if you prefer. Thanks for the heads up!

By: Dom

Dom — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 18:26:00 +0000

Part 6 doesnt work :s great screencast!

By: Thomas

Thomas — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 14:07:30 +0000

Thank you, the MeasureIt plugin is exactly what I was looking for.

I did look at that website and followed the instructions, but it didn't tell me to keep jQuery stuff in one file and prototype functions in another and include them directly after the given library like I finally figured out.

Thanks for your help.

By: conradwt

conradwt — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 14:00:54 +0000

If you're using Firefox, you can use something like MeasureIt plugin if you're looking to get in browser element dimensions.

If you're wanting to work with both jQuery and Prototype, then I would
recommend taking a look at the following:

http://docs.jquery.com/Using_jQuery_with_Other_...

Good luck,

-Conrad

By: Thomas

Thomas — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 12:01:49 +0000

I am using Windows 7 Ultimate. There is a snipping tool that seems to be similar to the one used in the screen cast, but it doesn't show the measurements like the one on the mac.

To use both prototype and jQuery is there a certain order I should include them?

edit: i figured it out. I have to separate the files and include my file with prototype functions in one file after prototype.js and a js file with my jquery functions in another file after jquery.js.

By: conradwt

conradwt — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 11:38:44 +0000

If you're using a Mac, you can simply do the following:

Command-Shift-4

You'll need hit the 'esc' key to not capture the selection into a PNG file.

Next, if you're working from the git repository, it should work without
any issues. Also, is Javascript enabled within your browser? If all else
fails, then you can try :all option to get things going.

Good luck,

-Conrad

By: Thomas

Thomas — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 09:07:00 +0000

Thank you, the MeasureIt plugin is exactly what I was looking for.

I did look at that website and followed the instructions, but it didn’t tell me to keep jQuery stuff in one file and prototype functions in another and include them directly after the given library like I finally figured out.

Thanks for your help.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 09:00:00 +0000

If you’re using Firefox, you can use something like MeasureIt plugin if you’re looking to get in browser element dimensions.

If you’re wanting to work with both jQuery and Prototype, then I would
recommend taking a look at the following:

http://docs.jquery.com/Using_jQuery_with_Other_Libraries

Good luck,

-Conrad

By: Thomas

Thomas — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 07:01:00 +0000

I am using Windows 7 Ultimate. There is a snipping tool that seems to be similar to the one used in the screen cast, but it doesn’t show the measurements like the one on the mac.To use both prototype and jQuery is there a certain order I should include them?
edit: i figured it out. I have to separate the files and include my file with prototype functions in one file after prototype.js and a js file with my jquery functions in another file after jquery.js.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 06:38:00 +0000

If you’re using a Mac, you can simply do the following:

Command-Shift-4

You’ll need hit the ‘esc’ key to not capture the selection into a PNG file.

Next, if you’re working from the git repository, it should work without
any issues. Also, is Javascript enabled within your browser? If all else
fails, then you can try :all option to get things going.

Good luck,

-Conrad

By: Stephen Murdoch

Stephen Murdoch — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 23:15:01 +0000

After reading their code, I've noticed that Twitter actually use a table for creating the equal height columns.

Just in-case anyone else was wondering…

By: Stephen Murdoch

Stephen Murdoch — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 18:15:00 +0000

After reading their code, I’ve noticed that Twitter actually use a table for creating the equal height columns.

Just in-case anyone else was wondering…

By: Eric Berry

Eric Berry — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 07:02:57 +0000

You're right. I guess I get a little careless when screencasting. I agree that usage rights should be checked. I'll make sure I clarify that next time. I was just throwing it together

By: firecall

firecall — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 02:53:51 +0000

Thanks for the video. But you should really at least make a bit of an effort to check the usage rights for images you use.

By: Eric Berry

Eric Berry — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 02:02:00 +0000

You’re right. I guess I get a little careless when screencasting. I agree that usage rights should be checked. I’ll make sure I clarify that next time. I was just throwing it together

By: firecall

firecall — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 21:53:00 +0000

Thanks for the video. But you should really at least make a bit of an effort to check the usage rights for images you use.

By: Stephen Murdoch

Stephen Murdoch — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 18:38:20 +0000

@Thomas - you need to install jrails for that.

just do:

script/plugin install git://github.com/aaronchi/jrails.git

that's all you have to do. javascript_include_tag :defaults now adds the jquery files to your app instead of the prototype and scriptaculous libraries.

NB - you might need to put a '.' (period) before the script/plugin install line if you are on mac or whatever...

another nice screencast - I'm waiting eagerly for the last one as I REALLY want to know how you manage to color the side column and make it equal in height to the left one.

By: Thomas

Thomas — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 15:56:47 +0000

Does anyone know of a tool similar to the one used in the screencast that measures the dimensions in pixels.

Also, my applications :defaults in the javascript_include_tag does not include jquery. How do I set it up? I am on a windows machine and I'd like to get it on my server too.

Thank you

By: Stephen Murdoch

Stephen Murdoch — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 13:38:00 +0000

@Thomas – you need to install jrails for that.

just do:

script/plugin install git://github.com/aaronchi/jrails.git

that’s all you have to do. javascript_include_tag :defaults now adds the jquery files to your app instead of the prototype and scriptaculous libraries.

NB – you might need to put a ‘.’ (period) before the script/plugin install line if you are on mac or whatever…

another nice screencast – I’m waiting eagerly for the last one as I REALLY want to know how you manage to color the side column and make it equal in height to the left one.

By: Thomas

Thomas — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 10:56:00 +0000

Does anyone know of a tool similar to the one used in the screencast that measures the dimensions in pixels.

Also, my applications :defaults in the javascript_include_tag does not include jquery. How do I set it up? I am on a windows machine and I’d like to get it on my server too.

Thank you