I’ve just released the first “stable” version of urlmarkr. I’ve re-written the multi user code to allow the display of public bookmarks to users who aren’t logged in, added migration support so now MySQL, PostgreSQL or SQLite3 can be used as the database backend and I’ve also updated the everything to work with the latest release of Ruby on Rails including updating Rails Engines to 1.1.4.
I’ve also added some new icons using Mark James’ excellent Silk Icons. In the next release I hope to add support for themes using CSS and the ability to import from sources other than del.icio.us. I’ve also been playing around with the YouTube Library for Ruby. With three or four lines of code it’s possible to pull information regarding a video, including it’s description and tags directly from YouTube into the New Bookmark form. The code is currently in SVN if anyone wishes to have a look. You’ll need to have the YouTube library gem installed for this to work.
If anyone has any ideas or suggestions for future releases please let me know! For now you can download version 0.1 from RubyForge.
Hey Joey,
Very excited about the software. I downloaded and installed it without a problem. I am able to create account successfully, but then in always fails on login. Am I missing something really simple here?
Hi Mike,
Did you activate the account by clicking the link in the conformation
email you received? If you didn’t I’d imagine that’s the problem.
One option I probably should have put in the config is the option to
not have to activate the account. You can add the following to the end
of the “module LoginEngine” section of config/environment.rb to turn
this off:
confirm_account: falseLet me know if this gets you up and running.
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J
Hi:
Nice application! I got it up and running. Couple of questions?
1. is the licensing GPL? or L-GPL?
Unfortunately I can’t use GPL for my customer’s project. Could you please clarify this?
2. What are your future plans i.e. is there any roadmap/vision? I am wondering if you are heading towards frul, yahoo myweb, simpy that kind of application? or? Could you please tell us.
3. I didn’t find any admin tool for managing the bookmarks i.e. “strange bookmarks” in the public bookmark folders?
Thanks again for your software. Even though its GPL Its nice to play around with a working version.
Hi Zaheed,
Thanks for your comments, I’ll answer your Q’s as best I can!
1) The urlmarkr code licensed under the GPL
2) To be honest I don’t really have a firm roadmap or vision. It’s really just a project I started to pick up some RoR and fill a need for a simple bookmarking application. A few people thought it was useful and cool so I decided to just release it out there. If you had any suggestions I’d love to hear them!
3) Bookmarks in the “public” folder would have been created by a user and set to public. Only that user that created the bookmark can edit it.
Hope this helps!
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J
This project sound intriguing, but it’d be nice to have just one screenshot and a short feature list. Otherwise I have to download and install just to get a clue about the functionality.
Hi Joey,
I recently came across your app in my learning RoR and I am trying to get it running.
I am running rails 1.2.2 and I am seeing this error as soon I go to http://localhost:3000/
Application error
Change this error message for exceptions thrown outside of an action (like in Dispatcher setups or broken Ruby code) in public/500.html
Any clues on what I am missing,
-Thanks
Hari
Hi Hari,
To be honest, I haven’t had much of a chance to work on urlmarkr recently. However, I just finished my end of year exams yesterday so hopefully I’ll be able to start updating soon.
The last version I’ve tested on was 1.1.6 and I believe there are some issues with newer versions of Rails. I’ll be having a look over the next few days and get things back up to date.
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J