A new version of Rhotoalbum, a simple but powerful photo album generator written in Ruby, has been released. The version 0.8 contains a number of features (well, after two years) like RSS support (try with cooliris), options per album, pagination, cool thumbnail effects for photos and album covers and improved album cover managing. The project web page [...]

One of the most common ways how to control a command line application is to use options, e.g. almost every command line application would understand -h or --help or /? (common in the MS-DOS world) as a request to show some instruction. Ruby (but also other programming languages such as Java) has a basic support for [...]

Flickr is a well known site for sharing photos and it is one of the most popular sites that published their services and allow to use them freely. It is not necessary to work on a photo uploader, photo printing site or a mashup solution to become an user of the services. Sometimes it is interesting [...]

Slovak Ruby and Ruby on Rails fans will meet in Bratislava on April 25, 2009. For more details see the Slovak Ruby on Rails site or directly the post about the meeting [all in Slovak].

It is probably every developer’s dream to create a programming language. It is a complex and difficult task, so it will remain just an unfulfilled dream for many. But there is a chance to create something simpler - a domain specific language (DSL). A language, that covers a specific (and limited) domain. Ruby helps here a lot [...]

One of the ways how to remotely control Firefox is to use the JSSh (JavaScript Shell) plug-in. To successfully install the plug-in, it is necessary to find a suitable version for your Firefox version (1.x, 2.x, 3.x) and platform (Linux, Mac, Win). That is sometimes not so trivial… Additionally there is a limitation in the plug-in: [...]

A new version of Rhotoalbum, a simple but powerful photo album generator written in Ruby, has been released. The version 0.6 contains a lot of new features such as album statistics (number of photos, number of albums), EXIF support (exposure time, focal length, f-number and camera model), automatic album thumbnail creation from the first album photo, [...]

A Ruby application that uses the ActiveRecord library (not a Ruby on Rails application) stopped working for me after an update of Ruby. The error message was: TEXT [Show Styled Code]: undefined method `require_gem' for main:Object (NoMethodError) TEXT [Show Plain Code]: undefined method `require_gem’ for main:Object (NoMethodError) The corresponding source code was: Ruby [Show Styled Code]: require 'rubygems' require_gem [...]

A new version of Rhotoalbum, a simple but powerful photo album generator written in Ruby, has been released. It is already its third release (0.3) and there are now really nice features as photo descriptions, more styles support with a style switcher or album options. Thanks to Viktor Zigo (maybe you know his plug-in to Firefox [...]

A web photo album is already a common thing. The majority uses online web albums, where you can upload your photos, e.g. Flickr and Google’s Picasa. Also some social network portals are adding features to share photos between their users. A much smaller group downloaded and installed a photo album application to their accounts on servers, [...]