Rails Rumble

Hey Rubyists,

I should have posted this before, but there was a Rails Rumble 48-hour
Rails programming contest last weekend that some of you may have
participated in. If you didn't, I'll try to remember to post before
it happens next year.

However, if you are interested, do check out the apps that were
written and vote on them. Mine is here:

http://researcher.vote.railsrumble.com

It's a writing app that helps you write articles, tech docs, books or
research papers. You create little "note cards"; for your ideas and
then rearrange them and write text for them to compose your paper.
Then you can export the finished paper with a bibliography generated
for you. I made it for my wife, who writes a lot of research papers
with bibliographies that take forever to make, and for myself to help
with writing technical documentation at work.

If any of you are writers or students, I would love some feedback on it, too.

If anyone else on the list participated, let us know so we can check them out!

Thanks,
Scott Chacon

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The source is not available by default - in fact, some of them (mine
included) will probably launch real sites after this contest. I would
be happy to send you the code if you're interested, though. However,
I used Ben Curtis's sample OpenID base - it worked pretty well, though
I did have to make one small patch, which I would be happy to explain
if you're interested.

http://www.bencurtis.com/archives/2007/05/openid-sample-application/

If you just want OpenID without normal logins too, you can just use
the open-id-authorization plugin by DHH. In the docs it says it only
works on Edge Rails, but I've heard that's no longer true.

There is also a really helpful RailsCast on it:

http://railscasts.com/episodes/68

BTW, using it, especially for contests like this where you have to
sign up for app after app, really rocks. I find myself getting really
frustrated in the judging if they don't have OpenID.

Scott

On 9/14/07, Hasan Diwan < hasan.diwan%40gmail.com">hasan.diwangmail.com> wrote:
&gt; Scott,
&gt; On 14/09/2007, Scott Chacon < schacon%40gmail.com">schacongmail.com> wrote:
&gt; > I should have posted this before, but there was a Rails Rumble 48-hour
> > Rails programming contest last weekend that some of you may have
>; > participated in. If you didn't, I'll try to remember to post before
&gt; > it happens next year.
&gt;
> Are the source to these applications available? I'd be interested in
> how you were able to integrate openid so seemlessly into your
>; application, for one.
>; --
> Cheers,
> Hasan Diwan < hasan.diwan%40gmail.com">hasan.diwangmail.com>
>;

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