- Posted: 1 year ago
- Tags:code, productivity, redmine, twitter
What do you do when you have mail, instant messages, rss feeds, web pages, text messages and revision control to all keep up with? Myneid came up with an idea of getting redmine updates from within twitter, so I took a crack at it:
#!/usr/bin/env ruby
require 'rubygems'
gem 'feedtools'
gem 'htmltokenizer'
require 'feed_tools'
require 'html/htmltokenizer'
require 'twitter'
#your redmine url
feed_url = "http://redmine.yourcompany.net/projects/activity?format=atom&key=YOURRSSKEY"
#grab redmine data
feed = FeedTools::Feed.open(feed_url)
post_these = Array.new
#fetch salient pieces from this stream
feed.items.each do |act|
tweet = "#{act.title}"
t = HTMLTokenizer.new(act.description)
desc = String.new
unless ARGV[0].nil? or ARGV[0] != 'full'
while token = t.getTag('p')
desc << t.getTrimmedText('p').gsub(/\n/, ' ')
end
tweet << "\t#{desc[0..137]}..."
end
if act.time >= 5.minutes.ago
post_these << tweet
end
end
#connect to twitter if we need to
if post_these.size > 0
twitter = Twitter::Base.new('YOURTWITTERUSERNAME', 'YOURTWITTERPASSWORD')
end
#post the oldest first
for tweet in post_these.reverse
status = twitter.post(tweet)
end
Beware, this script has no real error checking, but as long as your credentials and access key are all correct it should be golden. You will need the feedtools, twitter, and html tokenizer gems to get it to run.
I run this from cron every 5 minutes. As long as the redmine server and the server that the cron is run from both have accurate system clocks it should work well. A more elaborate version some day may include more error checking and dupe checking.
Have fun out there.
- Posted: 2 years ago
- Tags:code, ruby, website
I just added a new feature to my website. If you notice, the top graphic is somewhat like a sky. Now it changes depending on the time of day you are visiting my website. However, I did not accomplish this by making multiple graphics, and changing them out. I actually wrote a new model for rails that uses the Imagemagick/MiniMagick image processing library to accomplish this. So every few minutes of the day when it is called it will actually tint the picture an appropriate shade. It also saves these images, so they only have to be generated once. Here is the code for the model:
require 'rubygems'
gem 'mini_magick'
require 'mini_magick'
class Tphoto
attr_accessor :time, :file
def initialize(time,file)
@filename = file
@noon = Time.parse("%Y-%m-%d " << "12:45:00")
distance = time.to_i - @noon.to_i
if(distance > 0) then
time = time - (distance * 2)
end
@seconds = time.strftime("%H%M").to_i/10
@viewurl = "/images/tphoto/#{@seconds}/#{@filename}"
unless File.exist?("#{RAILS_ROOT}/public/images/tphoto/#{@seconds}/#{@filename}")
generate_time(@seconds, @file)
end
end
def generate_time(seconds, file)
unless File.exist?("#{RAILS_ROOT}/public/images/tphoto/#{@seconds}")
Dir.mkdir("#{RAILS_ROOT}/public/images/tphoto/#{@seconds}")
end
image = MiniMagick::Image.from_file("#{RAILS_ROOT}/public/images/tphoto/#{@filename}")
image.combine_options do |c|
c.fill("#FFFFFF")
c.tint(seconds+10)
end
image.write("#{RAILS_ROOT}/public/images/tphoto/#{@seconds}/#{@filename}")
end
def viewurl
return @viewurl
end
def filepath
return "#{RAILS_ROOT}/public/images/tphoto/#{@seconds}/#{@filename}"
end
end
and here is the code for the controller:
class TphotoController < ApplicationController
def index
@time = Time.now
@tphoto = Tphoto.new(@time, "monday.jpg")
@response.headers['Last-Modified'] = Time.now.httpdate
@response.headers['Cache-Control'] = 'no-store, no-cache, must-revalidate, post-check=0, pre-check=0'
@response.headers['Pragma'] = 'no-cache'
@response.headers['Expires'] = 'Thu, 19 Nov 1981 08:52:00 GMT'
send_file @tphoto.filepath, :type => 'image/jpeg', :disposition => 'inline'
end
end
- Posted: 2 years ago
- Tags:code, cplusplus, flv
This took me a bit of stumbling around before I found it, but if anyone is working with raw flv (Flash video) files, here is how you could print a header. I am using this in a cgi program that is designed to stream flv files from any point in the file. If it seeks to a point that is not the beginning, then it has to print this header so that the flash player is not confused about what kind of file it is:
cout << "FLV";
cout << '\x01';
cout << '\x01';
cout << '\x00';
cout << '\x00';
cout << '\x00';
cout << '\x09';
cout << '\x00';
cout << '\x00';
cout << '\x00';
cout << '\x09';
- Posted: 2 years ago
- Tags:code, ruby, site
I recently added the capability to display time in more human friendly terms. Basically, instead of saying Posted at 2007-11-30 20:18:36, a relevant post will say "posted 3 days ago". You can see this on every post or twitter on my site. I did not realize the full potential of Ruby until I sat down to write the code to make this happen. I simply extended Ruby's default Time class with the following:
class Time
def humantime
age = Time.now.to_i - self.to_i
seconds_max = 60
minutes_max = 3600
hours_max = 86400
days_max = 604800
weeks_max = 2629743
months_max = 31556926
p = ''
unit = ' second'
if age < seconds_max
amt = age
elsif age < minutes_max
amt = age/seconds_max
unit = ' minute'
elsif age < hours_max
amt = age/minutes_max
unit = ' hour'
elsif age < days_max
amt = age/hours_max
unit = ' day'
elsif age < weeks_max
amt = age/days_max
unit = ' week'
elsif age < months_max
amt = age/weeks_max
unit = ' month'
else
amt = age/months_max
unit = ' year'
end
if amt > 1
p = 's'
end
humantime = amt.to_s + unit + p + " ago"
end
end
So now, to get the time in human time, I just call the .humantime method that is now a part of every Time object.
