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Narwhal ======= A general purpose JavaScript platform ------------------------------------- Narwhal is a cross-platform, multi-interpreter, general purpose JavaScript platform. It aims to provide a solid foundation for building JavaScript applications, primarily outside the web browser. Narwhal includes a package manager, module system, and standard library for multiple JavaScript interpreters. Currently Narwhal's [Rhino](http://www.mozilla.org/rhino/) support is the most complete, but [other engines](engines.html) are available too. Narwhal's standard library conforms to the [CommonJS standard](http://wiki.commonjs.org). It is designed to work with multiple JavaScript interpreters, and to be easy to add support for new interpreters. Wherever possible, it is implemented in pure JavaScript to maximize reuse of code among engines. Combined with [Jack](http://jackjs.org/), a [Rack](http://rack.rubyforge.org/)-like [JSGI](http://jackjs.org/jsgi-spec.html) compatible library, Narwhal provides a platform for creating server-side JavaScript web applications and frameworks such as [Nitro](http://www.nitrojs.org/). ### Homepage: * [http://narwhaljs.org/](http://narwhaljs.org/) ### Source & Download: * [http://github.com/tlrobinson/narwhal/](http://github.com/tlrobinson/narwhal/) ### Mailing list: * [http://groups.google.com/group/narwhaljs](http://groups.google.com/group/narwhaljs) ### IRC: * [\#narwhal on irc.freenode.net](http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=narwhal) Documentation ------------- * [Quick Start](quick-start.html) * [Packages](packages.html) * [How to Install Packages](packages.html) * [How to Build Packages](packages-howto.html) * [Modules](modules.html) * [Virtual Environments / Seas](sea.html) * [How to Build Engines](engines.html) * [How Narwhal Works](narwhal.html) Contributors ------------ * [Tom Robinson](http://tlrobinson.net/) * [Kris Kowal](http://askawizard.blogspot.com/) * [George Moschovitis](http://blog.gmosx.com/) * [Kevin Dangoor](http://www.blueskyonmars.com/) * Hannes Wallnöfer * Sébastien Pierre * Irakli Gozalishvili * [Christoph Dorn](http://www.christophdorn.com/) * Zach Carter * Nathan L. Smith * Jan Varwig * Mark Porter * [Isaac Z. Schlueter](http://blog.izs.me/) * [Kris Zyp](http://www.sitepen.com/blog/author/kzyp/) * [Nathan Stott](http://nathan.whiteboard-it.com/) * [Toby Ho](http://tobyho.com) License ------- Copyright (c) 2009, 280 North Inc. <[280north.com](http://280north.com/)\> Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions: The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software. THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.

== README.md: #ScheduledResource This gem is for displaying how things are used over time -- a schedule for a set of "resources". You can configure the elements of the schedule and there are utilities and protocols to connect them: - Configuration (specification and management), - Query interfaces (a REST-like API and internal protocols to query the models), and - A basic Rails controller implementation. We have a way to configure the schedule, internal methods to generate the data, and a way to retrieve data from the client. However this gem is largely view-framework agnostic. We could use a variety of client-side packages or even more traditional Rails view templates to generate HTML. In any case, to get a good feel in a display like this we need some client-side code. The gem includes client-side modules to: - Manage &lt;b&gt;time and display geometries&lt;/b&gt; with "infinite" scroll along the time axis. - &lt;b&gt;Format display cells&lt;/b&gt; in ways specific to the resource models. - &lt;b&gt;Update text justification&lt;/b&gt; as the display is scrolled horizontally. ## Configuration A **scheduled resource** is something that can be used for one thing at a time. So if "Rocky &amp; Bullwinkle" is on channel 3 from 10am to 11am on Saturday, then 'channel 3' is the &lt;u&gt;resource&lt;/u&gt; and that showing of the episode is a &lt;u&gt;resource-use&lt;/u&gt; block. Resources and use-blocks are typically Rails models. Each resource and its use-blocks get one row in the display. That row has a label to the left with some timespan visible on the rest of the row. Something else you would expect see in a schedule would be headers and labels -- perhaps one row with the date and another row with the hour. Headers and labels also fit the model of resources and use-blocks. Basic timezone-aware classes (ZTime*) for those are included in this gem. ### Config File The schedule configuration comes from &lt;tt&gt;config/resource_schedule.yml&lt;/tt&gt; which has three top-level sections: - ResourceKinds: A hash where the key is a Resource and the value is a UseBlock. (Both are class names), - Resources: A list where each item is a Resource Class followed by one or more resource ids, and - visibleTime: The visible timespan of the schedule in seconds. The example file &lt;tt&gt;config/resource_schedule.yml&lt;/tt&gt; (installed when you run &lt;tt&gt;schedulize&lt;/tt&gt;) should be enough to display a two-row schedule with just the date above and the hour below. Of course you can monkey-patch or subclass these classes for your own needs. ### The schedule API The 'schedule' endpoint uses parameters &lt;tt&gt;t1&lt;/tt&gt; and &lt;tt&gt;t2&lt;/tt&gt; to specify a time interval for the request. A third parameter &lt;tt&gt;inc&lt;/tt&gt; allows an initial time window to be expanded without repeating blocks that span those boundaries. The time parameters _plus the configured resources_ define the data to be returned. ### More About Configuration Management The &lt;b&gt;ScheduledResource&lt;/b&gt; class manages resource and use-block class names, id's and labels for a schedule according to the configuration file. A ScheduledResource instance ties together: 1. A resource class (eg TvStation), 2. An id (a channel number in this example), and 3. Strings and other assets that will go into the DOM. The id is used to - select a resource _instance_ and - select instances of the _resource use block_ class (eg Program instances). The id _could_ be a database id but more often is something a little more suited to human use in the configuration. In any case it is used by model class method &lt;tt&gt;(resource_use_block_class).get_all_blocks()&lt;/tt&gt; to select the right use-blocks for the resource. A resource class name and id are are joined with a '_' to form a tag that also serves as an id for the DOM. Once the configuration yaml is loaded that data is maintained in the session structure. Of course having a single configuration file limits the application's usefulness. A more general approach would be to have a user model with login and configuration would be associated with the user. ## Installation Add this line to your application's Gemfile: ```ruby gem 'scheduled_resource' ``` And then execute: $ bundle Or install it yourself as: $ gem install scheduled_resource Then from your application's root execute: $ schedulize . This will install a few image placeholders, client-side modules and a stylesheet under &lt;tt&gt;vendor/assets&lt;/tt&gt;, an example configuration in &lt;tt&gt;config/resource_schedule.yml&lt;/tt&gt; and an example controller in &lt;tt&gt;app/controllers/schedule_controller.rb&lt;/tt&gt;. Also, if you use $ bundle show scheduled_resource to locate the installed source you can browse example classes &lt;tt&gt;lib/z_time_*.rb&lt;/tt&gt; and the controller helper methods in &lt;tt&gt;lib/scheduled_resource/helper.rb&lt;/tt&gt; ## Testing This gem also provides for a basic test application using angularjs to display a minimal but functional schedule showing just the day and hour headers in two different timezones (US Pacific and Eastern). Proceed as follows, starting with a fresh Rails app: $ rails new test_sr As above, add the gem to the Gemfile, then $ cd test_sr $ bundle $ schedulize . Add lines such as these to &lt;tt&gt;config/routes.rb&lt;/tt&gt; get "/schedule/index" =&gt; "schedule#index" get "/schedule" =&gt; "schedule#schedule" Copy / merge these files from the gem source into the test app: $SR_SRC/app/views/layouts/application.html.erb $SR_SRC/app/views/schedule/index.html.erb $SR_SRC/app/assets/javascripts/{angular.js,script.js,controllers.js} and add &lt;tt&gt;//= require angular&lt;/tt&gt; to application.js just below the entries for &lt;tt&gt;jquery&lt;/tt&gt;. After you run the server and browse to http://0.0.0.0:3000/schedule/index you should see the four time-header rows specified by the sample config file. ## More Examples A better place to see the use of this gem is at [tv4](https://github.com/emeyekayee/tv4). Specifically, models &lt;tt&gt;app/models/event.rb&lt;/tt&gt; and &lt;tt&gt;app/models/station.rb&lt;/tt&gt; give better examples of implementing the ScheduledResource protocol and adapting to a db schema organized along somewhat different lines. ## Contributing 1. Fork it ( https://github.com/emeyekayee/scheduled_resource/fork ) 2. Create your feature branch (`git checkout -b my-new-feature`) 3. Commit your changes (`git commit -am 'Add some feature'`) 4. Push to the branch (`git push origin my-new-feature`) 5. Create a new Pull Request

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