Pete On Rails - Latest Comments

Re: The Case for Story Points

graceglmcooke — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 19:35:16 -0000

This is a good example of how mysterious finds can be solved with a little effort.
Note that the Capital of Vermont hrsaccount is Montpelier, not Burlington. Burlington is Vermont's largest city.

Re: VoteFu gets a couple enhancements

peteonrails — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 14:30:48 -0000

I'm not sure what you've done wrong. Can you post a link to a gist or other online snippet so I can see your code?

Thanks,

--Pete

Re: VoteFu gets a couple enhancements

TM — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 06:47:51 -0000

The :order in the tally doesn't seem to work? Where have i done wrong?

Re: Sidebar comments in code

peteonrails — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 12:14:45 -0000

Oddly enough, a full year later, I write my blocks like the second example.

Feh.

Re: Announcing VoteFu

Brian — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 14:25:09 -0000

Hey Pete, loving this plugin. I used it to get this site up and running quite quickly: http://buyersvote.com

So thanks for contributing it!

One comment I wanted to share: one more feature I was able to add is the ability for people to vote on votes! This sounds weird, but it's what they do on Amazon.com where they ask you, was this review helpful? yes or no

Anyway, I tried adding acts_as_voteable to vote.rb and at first it didn't work. But I was able to get it working by adding these two lines at the top:

require 'acts_as_voteable'
ActiveRecord::Base.send(:include, Juixe::Acts::Voteable)

Anyway, thanks again!

Re: VoteFu 0.0.7

Eric — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 00:16:28 -0000

Vote Fu and STI: I noticed that Vote Fu did not work with STI'd classes. This is because the types stored in the Vote table is always the base type, but the voteable and voter modules use self.class.name in their queries. Changing these methods to use self.class.base_class.name makes it work perfectly though. :) Great plug in. Very useful!

Re: DRY controllers: Which Framework do you use?

Nathan — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 07:19:29 -0000

Good god, I'm trying to work out the same thing. I'm definitely leaning toward resource_controller because it just seems to be most logical correct way to do it plus the author appears enthusiastic and intelligent. It's hard to figure out which of this new rash of plugins are still supported or how much longer they will be worked on, which will prosper and eventually which one will make it into core Rails.

Re: Converting to and from Unix / Java time (epoch)

peteonrails — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 12:45:43 -0000

I've never heard of a leap millisecond, but I wouldn't exclude it from the realm of possibility.

Re: The Case for Story Points

peteonrails — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 15:17:35 -0000

Thanks Cecile! I appreciate the feedback.

Re: The Case for Story Points

Cecile — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 21:18:55 -0000

Pete,
I am not an agile specialist at all, but your article is really helpful in clarifying the productivity measurement question. Thank you!

Re: MyQuotable.com Source Code released

peteonrails — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 12:25:28 -0000

Sorry about that, Jerome!

I broke the codebase while doing a facebook app conversion. I need to revert it and set up a proper branch for the FB app. I took it offline so that nobody would get the busted version and try to use it.

It'll be back online shortly. Apologies for the inconvenience.

Re: MyQuotable.com Source Code released

Jerome — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 11:43:34 -0000

Your link to the source code redirects me to my dashboard on github... looking at your projects on there, it's not listed! Is it private or something?

Re: VoteFu 0.0.7

nick — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 00:46:40 -0000

Nevermind, I figured it out!
Thanks anyway!

Re: VoteFu 0.0.7

nick — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 12:46:59 -0000

the latest mislav_will_paginate on github.

If you say it should work, then what (in general) should my controller code look like?

Re: The Case for Story Points

peteonrails — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 10:56:42 -0000

Hi Dan,

Thanks for the feedback!

I dislike Ideal Developer Days. I think they're a compromise on the "estimating in hours" argument. While they do have a nice name that leaves a little hedge for the developer to say, "Well, you keep interrupting me, so this isn't an ideal developer day," I also think it keeps the focus on gut checking rather than on evidence.

Joel Spolsky did a great article on Evidence Based Scheduling here: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2007/10/26....

While I disagree with Joel on BDUF and his approach to planning out projects, he is absolutely, positively, irrefutably correct about scheduling based on the evidence (IMHO). :)

Once I noticed that story points and velocity were a way to implement EBS in the agile process, I was hooked and haven't looked back.

--Pete

Re: VoteFu 0.0.7

peteonrails — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 10:26:11 -0000

I've not had a problem doing this. What problems are you encountering? What version of will_paginate are you using?

Re: VoteFu 0.0.7

nick — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 06:37:08 -0000

Any idea how to mix the tally stuff with will_paginate? I've tried, but it didn't quite work out...

Re: Book musings: Ubuntu Kung Fu is released and other fun

busbyseo1 — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 03:46:47 -0000

nice book cover. Somehow I really like it.

Re: The Case for Story Points

dpickett — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 09:57:53 -0000

Awesome article. What are your thoughts about Ideal Developer Days? I still don't think it's as effective as story points estimated on a Fibonacci scale.

As a contractor, I use story points for determining durations of projects. IE, I know I can burn 38-45 points a week (my velocity). I find it's the most accurate way to put together a scope of work.

Where it proves most effective, though, is in re-prioritizing and evaluating the impact of changes with the client. My clients and I find it really helpful when we're shifting stories around based on their point cost when new ideas come into play.

Re: VoteFu 0.0.7

peteonrails — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 10:51:09 -0000

Thank you, Guillaume. If you'd fork the repo on github, make the change, and send me a pull request, I'll be happy to merge the changes into the master.

If you'd rather not do it that way, then I'll make a bugfix release in the next week or so and include your changes.

Re: VoteFu 0.0.7

Guillaume — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 10:13:08 -0000

Found an issue with has_karma and sqlite3.

module InstanceMethods
def karma(options = {})
# count the total number of votes on all of the voteable objects that are related to this object
#The following line is not SQLite3 compatible, because boolean are stored as 'f' or 't', not '1', or '0'
#self.karma_voteable.sum(:vote, options_for_karma(options))
self.karma_voteable.find(:all, options_for_karma(options).merge(:conditions => ['vote = ?', true])).length
end

Merging the options and conditions might not be the best for scalability, but it works with sqlite3.

Without this fix, everyone had a karma of 0.

Not sure this is the right place for the post, I'll try to add it on github as well.

Re: Converting to and from Unix / Java time (epoch)

Jono B — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 20:17:58 -0000

We all know there is such thing as a leap year. There is also such thing as a leap second (I think there was one at the end of 2008).

Is there such thing as a leap millisecond (or any smaller time division for that matter). Or in other words, does:

javatime == (unixtime * 1000)

in fact hold true (for those people who do care about ms precision when doing the conversion)?

Re: VoteFu 0.0.7

peteonrails — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 09:45:34 -0000

Rich,

Sorry about that! I need to update the documentation. It is now:

"script/generate vote_fu Post"

--Pete

Re: VoteFu 0.0.7

sherpa99 — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 01:10:00 -0000

I keep getting this error when I run the "script/generate voteable VoteableModel" command.

"Couldn't find 'voteable' generator"

Here's what I did,

First I created a quick test application (rails 2.2.2)

Then I create a quick scaffold like this:
--> script/generate scaffold post title:string body:text published:boolean

Then I created quick user model like this:
--> script/generate scaffold user login:string password:string

Then ran
--> db:migrate

Then ran:
-->script/generate voteable post

error --> Couldn't find 'voteable' generator

I've tried using the plugin and the gem version -- same results.

Any ideas,

Cheers,

Rich

Re: New VoteFu Feature: karma counting

Jazzy — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 14:14:41 -0000

Never mind I just figured out. It needs to be ./script/generate vote_fu

Thanks,
-Jazzy