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Generate repeatable random icons from any string

Rack::Attack with common attack vectors such as denial-of-service, repeated failures, malicious strings, etc.

Universal random data generator. Supports String, Array, Hash, repeat and maybe on part of structure

Follows a simple formula: compares user dataset to bot dataset. If user string doesn't match, increment one input value. Repeat until string matches, and use datasheet string. An autonomous data pointer and extender will be based on this concept.

== Easily add colors, boxes, repetitions and emojis to your terminal output using pipes (|). Install using the Ruby Gem: > gem install pipetext Includes a library module which can be included in your code: require 'pipetext' class YellowPrinter include PipeText def print(string) write('|Y' + string + '|n') end end printer = YellowPrinter.new printer.print('This is yellow') The gem includes a command line interface too: > pipetext > pipetext '|Ccyan|n' Easily set your bash prompt colors using pipetext: > PS1=$(pipetext '|$|g\u|n@|g\h|n:|g\w|n$ ') Works with files: > pipetext <filename> Works with pipes too: > echo '|RRed test |u1f49c|n' | pipetext --- | pipe || & ampersand && Toggle (&) background color mode |& smoke |s white |W black text on white background |k&w red |r bright red |R red background &r green |g bright green |G green background &g blue |b bright blue |B blue background &b cyan |c bright cyan |C cyan background &c yellow |y bright yellow |Y yellow background &y magenta |m bright magenta |M magenta background &m --- Hex RGB color codes: Foreground |#RRGGBB Background &#RRGGBB Palette colors (256) using Hex: |p33&pF8 Clear Screen |! black with white background |K&w Blinking |@ white with magenta background |w&m invert |i smoke with green background |s&g Underlined |_ red with cyan background |r&c Italics |~ bright red with blue background |R&b Bold |+ green with yellow background |g&y Faint |. bright green with red background |G&r Crossed out |x normal color and background |n&n Escape Sequence |\ Center text using current position and line end number |{text to center} Add spaces to line end |; Set line end |]# Set current x,y cursor position |[x,y] Terminal bell |[bell] Move cursor up 1 line |^ Hide cursor |h Move cursor down 1 line |v Unhide cursor |H Move cursor forward 1 character |> Sleep timer in seconds |[#s] Move cursor back 1 character |< Sleep timer in milliseconds |[#ms] Capture variable |(variable name=data) Display variable |(variable name) Add to variable |(variable name+=data) Subtract from variable |(variable name-=data) Multiple variable |(variable name*=data) Divide variable |(variable name/=data) Copy variable to current number |(#variable name) |$ toggles [ and ] around empty sequences automatically for bash command prompts --- Emojis: https://unicode.org/emoji/charts/full-emoji-list.html |[Abbreviated CLDR Short Name] 😍 |[smiling face with heart-eyes] or ⚙ |[gear] 💤 |[zzz] 👨 |[man] 😍 |[sm f w he e] ✔ |U2714 ❌ |U274c ☮ |u262E 💎 |u1f48e 💜 |u1f49c --- Single or double line box mode with |- or |= ┌──┬──┐ ╔══╦══╗ +--+--+ <-- Draw this with this: |15 |-[--v--] |=[--v--] |o[--v--] │ │ │ ║ ║ ║ | | | |15 |-! ! ! |=! ! ! |o! ! ! 123456789012345├──┴──┤ ╠══╩══╣ +--+--+ |y1234567890|g12345|n|->--^--< |=>--^--< |o>--^--< 15 Spaces │ │ ║ ║ | | |c15|n Spaces|6 |-! ! |=! ! |o! ! (|15 ) └─────┘ ╚═════╝ +-----+ (||15 )|9 |-{-----} |={-----} |o{-----} ┌──────────────────┐ ╔════════════════════╗ |-[|18-]|4 |g&m|=[|20-]|n&n|O │ │ ║ ║ |-!|18 !|4 |g&m|=!|20 !|n&n|O ├──────────────────┤ ╠════════════════════╣ |->|18-<|4 &m|g|=>|20-<|n&n|O │ │ ║ ║ |-!|18 !|4 |g&m|=!|20 !|n&n|O └──────────────────┘ ╚════════════════════╝ |-{|18-}|4 |g&m|={|20-}|n&n|O --- Repetition using | followed by the number of characters to repeat and then the character to repeat. |15* does the * character 15 times like this: *************** --- ==Use the ++pipetext++ command to see other options and examples.

Crowdfund is a Ruby program developed based on Pragmatic Studio's Ruby Programming hands-on video course, and distributed as a Ruby gem. This program has been developed using all the strengths of Ruby including the following. Ruby Programming Environment * Installing Ruby on your favorite operating system (free exercise) * Running Ruby using the interactive Ruby shell (irb) and writing Ruby program files * Using Ruby's documentation system to get help * Installing external Ruby libraries using RubyGems * Troubleshooting common problems Ruby Language Constructs * Expressions and variables * Numbers, string, and symbols (free video &amp; exercise) * Loops and conditional expressions * Arrays and hashes (free video &amp; exercise on hashes) * Classes, modules, and structs Object-Oriented Programming * Using built-in Ruby classes * Defining your own classes with state and behavior (free video &amp; exercise) * Creating unique objects * Telling objects what to do by calling methods * Modeling class-level inheritance relationships * Sharing code with mixins Object-Oriented Design Principles * Encapsulation * Separation of concerns * Polymorphism * Don't Repeat Yourself * Tell, Don't Ask Blocks and Iterators * Calling built-in methods that take blocks * Writing your own methods that yield to blocks * Implementing custom iterators * Effectively using blocks in your programs Organizing Ruby Code * Creating a Ruby project structure * Separating source files for easier reuse and testing * Namespacing to avoid naming clashes * Input/Output * Reading data from files * Writing data to files * Creating an interactive console prompt * Handling command-line input Unit Testing * Writing and running unit tests with RSpec * Test-driven development and the red-green-refactor cycle * Stubbing methods to control tests * Refactoring code, safely! Distribution * Conforming to RubyGems conventions * Writing a GemSpec * Building a RubyGem * Publishing a RubyGem to a public server Ruby Programming Idioms

Studio Game is a Ruby program developed based on Pragmatic Studio' Ruby Programming hands-on video course, and distributed as a Ruby gem. This program has been developed using all the strengths of Ruby including the following. Ruby Programming Environment * Installing Ruby on your favorite operating system (free exercise) * Running Ruby using the interactive Ruby shell (irb) and writing Ruby program files * Using Ruby's documentation system to get help * Installing external Ruby libraries using RubyGems * Troubleshooting common problems Ruby Language Constructs * Expressions and variables * Numbers, string, and symbols (free video &amp; exercise) * Loops and conditional expressions * Arrays and hashes (free video &amp; exercise on hashes) * Classes, modules, and structs Object-Oriented Programming * Using built-in Ruby classes * Defining your own classes with state and behavior (free video &amp; exercise) * Creating unique objects * Telling objects what to do by calling methods * Modeling class-level inheritance relationships * Sharing code with mixins Object-Oriented Design Principles * Encapsulation * Separation of concerns * Polymorphism * Don't Repeat Yourself * Tell, Don't Ask Blocks and Iterators * Calling built-in methods that take blocks * Writing your own methods that yield to blocks * Implementing custom iterators * Effectively using blocks in your programs Organizing Ruby Code * Creating a Ruby project structure * Separating source files for easier reuse and testing * Namespacing to avoid naming clashes * Input/Output * Reading data from files * Writing data to files * Creating an interactive console prompt * Handling command-line input Unit Testing * Writing and running unit tests with RSpec * Test-driven development and the red-green-refactor cycle * Stubbing methods to control tests * Refactoring code, safely! Distribution * Conforming to RubyGems conventions * Writing a GemSpec * Building a RubyGem * Publishing a RubyGem to a public server Ruby Programming Idioms

Ame Ame provides a simple command-line interface API for Ruby¹. It can be used to provide both simple interfaces like that of ‹rm›² and complex ones like that of ‹git›³. It uses Ruby’s own classes, methods, and argument lists to provide an interface that is both simple to use from the command-line side and from the Ruby side. The provided command-line interface is flexible and follows commond standards for command-line processing. ¹ See http://ruby-lang.org/ ² See http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/rm.html ³ See http://git-scm.com/docs/ § Usage Let’s begin by looking at two examples, one where we mimic the POSIX¹ command-line interface to the ‹rm› command. Looking at the entry² in the standard, ‹rm› takes the following options: = -f. = Do not prompt for confirmation. = -i. = Prompt for confirmation. = -R. = Remove file hierarchies. = -r. = Equivalent to /-r/. It also takes the following arguments: = FILE. = A pathname or directory entry to be removed. And actually allows one or more of these /FILE/ arguments to be given. We also note that the ‹rm› command is described as a command to “remove directory entries”. ¹ See http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/contents.html ² See http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/rm.html Let’s turn this specification into one using Ame’s API. We begin by adding a flag for each of the options listed above: class Rm &lt; Ame::Root flag 'f', '', false, 'Do not prompt for confirmation' flag 'i', '', nil, 'Prompt for confirmation' do |options| options['f'] = false end flag 'R', '', false, 'Remove file hierarchies' flag 'r', '', nil, 'Equivalent to -R' do |options| options['r'] = true end A flag¹ is a boolean option that doesn’t take an argument. Each flag gets a short and long name, where an empty name means that there’s no corresponding short or long name for the flag, a default value (true, false, or nil), and a description of what the flag does. Each flag can also optionally take a block that can do further processing. In this case we use this block to modify the Hash that maps option names to their values passed to the block to set other flags’ values than the ones that the block is associated with. As these flags (‘i’ and ‘r’) aren’t themselves of interest, their default values have been set to nil, which means that they won’t be included in the Hash that maps option names to their values when passed to the method. ¹ See http://disu.se/software/ame-1.0/api/user/Ame/Class#flag-class-method There are quite a few other kinds of options besides flags that can be defined using Ame, but flags are all that are required for this example. We’ll get to the other kinds in later examples. Next we add a “splus” argument. splus 'FILE', String, 'File to remove' A splus¹ argument is like a Ruby “splat”, that is, an Array argument at the end of the argument list to a method preceded by a star, except that a splus requires at least one argument. A splus argument gets a name for the argument (‹FILE›), the type of argument it represents (String), and a description. ¹ See http://disu.se/software/ame-1.0/api/user/Ame/Class#splus-class-method Then we add a description of the command (method) itself: description 'Remove directory entries' Descriptions¹ will be used in help output to assist the user in using the command. ¹ See http://disu.se/software/ame-1.0/api/user/Ame/Class#description-class-method Finally, we add the Ruby method that’ll implement the command (all preceding code included here for completeness): class Rm &lt; Ame::Root version '1.0.0' flag 'f', '', false, 'Do not prompt for confirmation' flag 'i', '', nil, 'Prompt for confirmation' do |options| options['f'] = false end flag 'R', '', false, 'Remove file hierarchies' flag 'r', '', nil, 'Equivalent to -R' do |options| options['r'] = true end splus 'FILE', String, 'File to remove' description 'Remove directory entries' def rm(files, options = {}) require 'fileutils' FileUtils.send options['R'] ? :rm_r : :rm, [first] + rest, :force =&gt; options['f'] end end Actually, another bit of code was also added, namely version '1.0.0' This sets the version¹ String of the command. This information is used when the command is invoked with the “‹--version›” flag. This flag is automatically added, so you don’t need to add it yourself. Another flag, “‹--help›”, is also added automatically. When given, this flag’ll make Ame output usage information of the command. ¹ See http://disu.se/software/ame-1.0/api/user/Ame/Class#version-class-method To actually run the command, all you need to do is invoke Rm.process This’ll invoke the command using the command-line arguments stored in ‹ARGV›, but you can also specify other ones if you want to: Rm.process 'rm', %w[-r /tmp/*] The first argument to #process¹ is the name of the method to invoke, which defaults to ‹File.basename($0)›, and the second argument is an Array of Strings that should be processed as command-line arguments passed to the command. ¹ See http://disu.se/software/ame-1.0/api/user/Ame/Class#process-class-method If you’d store the complete ‹Rm› class defined above in a file called ‹rm› and add ‹#! /usr/bin/ruby -w› at the beginning and ‹Rm.process› at the end, you’d have a fully functional ‹rm› command (after making it executable). Let’s see it in action: % rm --help Usage: rm [OPTIONS]... FILE... Remove directory entries Arguments: FILE... File to remove Options: -R Remove file hierarchies -f Do not prompt for confirmation --help Display help for this method -i Prompt for confirmation -r Equivalent to -R --version Display version information % rm --version rm 1.0.0 Some commands are more complex than ‹rm›. For example, ‹git›¹ has a rather complex command-line interface. We won’t mimic it all here, but let’s introduce the rest of the Ame API using a fake ‹git› clone as an example. ¹ See http://git-scm.com/docs/ ‹Git› uses sub-commands to achieve most things. Implementing sub-commands with Ame is done using a “dispatch”. We’ll discuss dispatches in more detail later, but suffice it to say that a dispatch delegates processing to a child class that’ll handle the sub-command in question. We begin by defining our main ‹git› command using a class called ‹Git› under the ‹Git::CLI› namespace: module Git end class Git::CLI &lt; Ame::Root version '1.0.0' class Git &lt; Ame::Class description 'The stupid content tracker' def initialize; end We’re setting things up to use the ‹Git› class as a dispatch in the ‹Git::CLI› class. The description on the ‹initialize› method will be used as a description of the ‹git› dispatch command itself. Next, let’s add the ‹format-patch›¹ sub-command: description 'Prepare patches for e-mail submission' flag ?n, 'numbered', false, 'Name output in [PATCH n/m] format' flag ?N, 'no-numbered', nil, 'Name output in [PATCH] format' do |options| options['numbered'] = false end toggle ?s, 'signoff', false, 'Add Signed-off-by: line to the commit message' switch '', 'thread', 'STYLE', nil, Ame::Types::Enumeration[:shallow, :deep], 'Controls addition of In-Reply-To and References headers' flag '', 'no-thread', nil, 'Disables addition of In-Reply-To and Reference headers' do |options, _| options.delete 'thread' end option '', 'start-number', 'N', 1, 'Start numbering the patches at N instead of 1' multioption '', 'to', 'ADDRESS', String, 'Add a To: header to the email headers' optional 'SINCE', 'N/A', 'Generate patches for commits after SINCE' def format_patch(since = '', options = {}) p since, options end ¹ See http://git-scm.com/docs/git-format-patch/ We’re using quite a few new Ame commands here. Let’s look at each in turn: toggle ?s, 'signoff', false, 'Add Signed-off-by: line to the commit message' A “toggle”¹ is a flag that also has an inverse. Beyond the flags ‘s’ and “signoff”, the toggle also defines “no-signoff”, which will set “signoff” to false. This is useful if you want to support configuration files that set “signoff”’s default to true, but still allow it to be overridden on the command line. ¹ See http://disu.se/software/ame-1.0/api/user/Ame/Class#toggle-class-method When using the short form of a toggle (and flag and switch), multiple ones may be juxtaposed after the initial one. For example, “‹-sn›” is equivalent to “‹-s -n›” to “git format-patch›”. switch '', 'thread', 'STYLE', nil, Ame::Types::Enumeration[:shallow, :deep], 'Controls addition of In-Reply-To and References headers' A “switch”¹ is an option that takes an optional argument. This allows you to have separate defaults for when the switch isn’t present on the command line and for when it’s given without an argument. The third argument to a switch is the name of the argument. We’re also introducing a new concept here in ‹Ame::Types::Enumeration›. An enumeration² allows you to limit the allowed input to a set of Symbols. An enumeration also has a default value in the first item to its constructor (which is aliased as ‹.[]›). In this case, the “thread” switch defaults to nil, but, when given, will default to ‹:shallow› if no argument is given. If an argument is given it must be either “shallow” or “deep”. A switch isn’t required to take an enumeration as its argument default and can take any kind of default value for its argument that Ame knows how to handle. We’ll look at this in more detail later, but know that the type of the default value will be used to inform Ame how to parse a command-line argument into a Ruby value. An argument to a switch must be given, in this case, as “‹--thread=deep›” on the command line. ¹ See http://disu.se/software/ame-1.0/api/user/Ame/Class#switch-class-method ² See http://disu.se/software/ame-1.0/api/user/Ame/Types/Enumeration/ option '', 'start-number', 'N', 1, 'Start numbering the patches at N instead of 1' An “option”¹ is an option that takes an argument. The argument must always be present and may be given, in this case, as “‹--start-number=2›” or “‹--start-number 2›” on the command line. For a short-form option, anything that follows the option is seen as an argument, so assuming that “start-number” also had a short name of ‘S’, “‹-S2›” would be equivalent to “‹-S 2›”, which would be equivalent to “‹--start-number 2›”. Note that “‹-snS2›” would still work as expected. ¹ See http://disu.se/software/ame-1.0/api/user/Ame/Class#option-class-method multioption '', 'to', 'ADDRESS', String, 'Add a To: header to the email headers' A “multioption”¹ is an option that takes an argument and may be repeated any number of times. Each argument will be added to an Array stored in the Hash that maps option names to their values. Instead of taking a default argument, it takes a type for the argument (String, in this case). Again, types are used to inform Ame how to parse command-line arguments into Ruby values. ¹ See http://disu.se/software/ame-1.0/api/user/Ame/Class#multioption-class-method optional 'SINCE', 'N/A', 'Generate patches for commits after SINCE' An “optional”¹ argument is an argument that isn’t required. If it’s not present on the command line it’ll get its default value (the String ‹'N/A'›, in this case). ¹ See http://disu.se/software/ame-1.0/api/user/Ame/Class#optional-class-method We’ve now covered all kinds of options and one new kind of argument. There are three more types of argument (one that we’ve already seen and two new) that we’ll look into now: “argument”, “splat”, and “splus”. description 'Annotate file lines with commit information' argument 'FILE', String, 'File to annotate' def annotate(file) p file end An “argument”¹ is an argument that’s required. If it’s not present on the command line, an error will be raised (and by default reported to the terminal). As it’s required, it doesn’t take a default, but rather a type. ¹ See http://disu.se/software/ame-1.0/api/user/Ame/Class#argument-class-method description 'Add file contents to the index' splat 'PATHSPEC', String, 'Files to add content from' def add(paths) p paths end A “splat”¹ is an argument that’s not required, but may be given any number of times. The type of a splat is the type of one argument and the type of a splat as a whole is an Array of values of that type. ¹ See http://disu.se/software/ame-1.0/api/user/Ame/Class#splat-class-method description 'Display gitattributes information' splus 'PATHNAME', String, 'Files to list attributes of' def check_attr(paths) p paths end A “splus”¹ is an argument that’s required, but may also be given any number of times. The type of a splus is the type of one argument and the type of a splus as a whole is an Array of values of that type. ¹ See http://disu.se/software/ame-1.0/api/user/Ame/Class#splus-class-method Now that we’ve seen all kinds of options and arguments, let’s look on an additional tool at our disposal, the dispatch¹. class Remote &lt; Ame::Class description 'Manage set of remote repositories' def initialize; end description 'Shows a list of existing remotes' flag 'v', 'verbose', false, 'Show remote URL after name' def list(options = {}) p options end description 'Adds a remote named NAME for the repository at URL' argument 'name', String, 'Name of the remote to add' argument 'url', String, 'URL to the repository of the remote to add' def add(name, url) p name, url end end ¹ See http://disu.se/software/ame-1.0/api/user/Ame/Class#dispatch-class-method Here we’re defining a child class to Git::CLI::Git called “Remote” that doesn’t introduce anything new. Then we set up the dispatch: dispatch Remote, :default =&gt; 'list' This adds a method called “remote” to Git::CLI::Git that will dispatch processing of the command line to an instance of the Remote class when “‹git remote›” is seen on the command line. The “remote” method expects an argument that’ll be used to decide what sub-command to execute. Here we’ve specified that in the absence of such an argument, the “list” method should be invoked. We add the same kind of dispatch to Git under Git::CLI: dispatch Git and then we’re done. Here’s all the previous code in its entirety: module Git end class Git::CLI &lt; Ame::Root version '1.0.0' class Git &lt; Ame::Class description 'The stupid content tracker' def initialize; end description 'Prepare patches for e-mail submission' flag ?n, 'numbered', false, 'Name output in [PATCH n/m] format' flag ?N, 'no-numbered', nil, 'Name output in [PATCH] format' do |options| options['numbered'] = false end toggle ?s, 'signoff', false, 'Add Signed-off-by: line to the commit message' switch '', 'thread', 'STYLE', nil, Ame::Types::Enumeration[:shallow, :deep], 'Controls addition of In-Reply-To and References headers' flag '', 'no-thread', nil, 'Disables addition of In-Reply-To and Reference headers' do |options, _| options.delete 'thread' end option '', 'start-number', 'N', 1, 'Start numbering the patches at N instead of 1' multioption '', 'to', 'ADDRESS', String, 'Add a To: header to the email headers' optional 'SINCE', 'N/A', 'Generate patches for commits after SINCE' def format_patch(since = '', options = {}) p since, options end description 'Annotate file lines with commit information' argument 'FILE', String, 'File to annotate' def annotate(file) p file end description 'Add file contents to the index' splat 'PATHSPEC', String, 'Files to add content from' def add(paths) p paths end description 'Display gitattributes information' splus 'PATHNAME', String, 'Files to list attributes of' def check_attr(paths) p paths end class Remote &lt; Ame::Class description 'Manage set of remote repositories' def initialize; end description 'Shows a list of existing remotes' flag 'v', 'verbose', false, 'Show remote URL after name' def list(options = {}) p options end description 'Adds a remote named NAME for the repository at URL' argument 'name', String, 'Name of the remote to add' argument 'url', String, 'URL to the repository of the remote to add' def add(name, url) p name, url end end dispatch Remote, :default =&gt; 'list' end dispatch Git end If we put this code in a file called “git” and add ‹#! /usr/bin/ruby -w› at the beginning and ‹Git::CLI.process› at the end, you’ll have a very incomplete git command-line interface on your hands. Let’s look at what some of its ‹--help› output looks like: % git --help Usage: git [OPTIONS]... METHOD [ARGUMENTS]... The stupid content tracker Arguments: METHOD Method to run [ARGUMENTS]... Arguments to pass to METHOD Options: --help Display help for this method --version Display version information Methods: add Add file contents to the index annotate Annotate file lines with commit information check-attr Display gitattributes information format-patch Prepare patches for e-mail submission remote Manage set of remote repositories % git format-patch --help Usage: git format-patch [OPTIONS]... [SINCE] Prepare patches for e-mail submission Arguments: [SINCE=N/A] Generate patches for commits after SINCE Options: -N, --no-numbered Name output in [PATCH] format --help Display help for this method -n, --numbered Name output in [PATCH n/m] format --no-thread Disables addition of In-Reply-To and Reference headers -s, --signoff Add Signed-off-by: line to the commit message --start-number=N Start numbering the patches at N instead of 1 --thread[=STYLE] Controls addition of In-Reply-To and References headers --to=ADDRESS* Add a To: header to the email headers % git remote --help Usage: git remote [OPTIONS]... [METHOD] [ARGUMENTS]... Manage set of remote repositories Arguments: [METHOD=list] Method to run [ARGUMENTS]... Arguments to pass to METHOD Options: --help Display help for this method Methods: add Adds a remote named NAME for the repository at URL list Shows a list of existing remotes § API The previous section gave an introduction to the whole user API in an informal and introductory way. For an indepth reference to the user API, see the {user API documentation}¹. ¹ See http://disu.se/software/ame-1.0/api/user/Ame/ If you want to extend the API or use it in some way other than as a command-line-interface writer, see the {developer API documentation}¹. ¹ See http://disu.se/software/ame-1.0/api/developer/Ame/ § Financing Currently, most of my time is spent at my day job and in my rather busy private life. Please motivate me to spend time on this piece of software by donating some of your money to this project. Yeah, I realize that requesting money to develop software is a bit, well, capitalistic of me. But please realize that I live in a capitalistic society and I need money to have other people give me the things that I need to continue living under the rules of said society. So, if you feel that this piece of software has helped you out enough to warrant a reward, please PayPal a donation to now@disu.se¹. Thanks! Your support won’t go unnoticed! ¹ Send a donation: https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_donations&amp;business=now@disu.se&amp;item_name=Ame § Reporting Bugs Please report any bugs that you encounter to the {issue tracker}¹. ¹ See https://github.com/now/ame/issues § Authors Nikolai Weibull wrote the code, the tests, the documentation, and this README. § Licensing Ame is free software: you may redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the {GNU Lesser General Public License, version 3}¹ or later², as published by the {Free Software Foundation}³. ¹ See http://disu.se/licenses/lgpl-3.0/ ² See http://gnu.org/licenses/ ³ See http://fsf.org/

== 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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