A number of members of the Rails community have been known to show us their Gems on occasion.
So what's in your tool box?
Introducing Tool Parade
sudo gem install ToolParade
On the command line run
toolparade
Ruby Gems and Rails Plugins on your system are automatically scanned and the result uploaded to Working With Rails for all to see
Great! you say. But why do this?
Benefits
Find out what other libraries members of the community use - get ideas for ones that you might want to install.
Gem builders / plugin authors - see how many developers use your gem and which version.
See a list of libraries with a bias on member authority - find out what the top developers are using
Allows the system to make intelligent recommendations of gems/plugins you may also be interested in. (future functionality)
Flickr credit: http://flickr.com/photos/rorris/504842150/
Get browsing
Remember when you use Tool Parade you influence the above lists.
There is more
In addition to the new features discussed above there is also a new top level navigation bar which hopefully makes things easier while browsing the WWR site. Also take a look at the groups section as it's now possible to see the top list of Groups based on member authority.
Feedback
Like the features? Or have a suggestion or comment? Drop a line this way
UPDATE
We are now on version 0.0.2 of the Gem which adds support for plugin descriptions via scanning the Readme.
Download it from the above link.
Now available on RubyForge: http://rubyforge.org/projects/toolparade/
OR
sudo gem install ToolParade
11 Responses to “What's in your toolbox?”
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July 19th, 2007 at 12:17 AM
$ sudo gem install ToolParade-0.0.1.gem Password: Bulk updating Gem source index for: http://gems.rubyforge.org ERROR: While executing gem ... (Gem::GemNotFoundException) Could not find ToolParade-0.0.1.gem (> 0) in any repository
July 19th, 2007 at 08:59 AM
Hi Ben,
It's not on RubyForge yet - I'm waiting for the project to get approval. In the mean time you can download it from:
http://workingwithrails.com/ToolParade-0.0.1.gem
Hope that helps, Martin.
July 19th, 2007 at 03:49 PM
UPDATE: It's on RubyForge now so the standard: sudo gem install ToolParade
will work
July 20th, 2007 at 02:54 PM
There appears to be a bug in the code. In toolparade you have require_gem 'ToolParade', version. That's deprecated (and doesn't work on my setup) and should say gem 'ToolParade', version.
Then the world gets better.
July 20th, 2007 at 03:28 PM
Hi Eric, I have dropped you a mail.
July 20th, 2007 at 03:58 PM
This is a fantastic idea. I have a lot of plugins in /vendor/plugins that don't seem to get picked up. Do they have to be gems?
July 20th, 2007 at 04:08 PM
In regards to the require_gem issue we think it's down to not having the latest version of RubyGems. In order to get round this make sure you are up to date by doing: gem update --system
See http://rubygems.org/read/chapter/3 for more
Daniel, just dropped you a mail
July 20th, 2007 at 07:09 PM
After updating RubyGems the error changes to:
Warning: require_gem is obsolete. Use gem instead.
July 21st, 2007 at 11:59 AM
Hi Chad,
You should be able to remedy this by uninstalling the ToolParade gem and then installing it again.
I believe it's the same issue many people had when updating Gems for Rails a while back. See:
http://weblog.rubyonrails.com/2007/2/6/in-case-you-re-having-trouble-installing-gems
(some helpful info there).
July 23rd, 2007 at 04:02 PM
Sorry I didn't respond earlier, but Martin is right - the bug I reported above is remedied by updating rubygems.
I now get the warning on all my gems....GAHHHH! That's not ToolParade's fault of course.
July 26th, 2007 at 03:30 PM
This looks fantastic!