I am in the process of creating a knowledgebase website for my office and I find bootstrap pretty awesome. Now, people at work, which may not be HTML savvy, will be creating new articles and then posting them to this knowledge base.
Is there something you can recommend that would allow such type of user to create a document on somthing similar to Microsoft Word but web based and then publish?
Or do I have to write it from scratch?
Thanks for any help.
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I am very new to ruby on rails and I am using Ruby version 1.9 and its newer syntax.
I have managed to create a small application where I store statistics in 1 large database table. This table can be viewed and edited with no problems via rails.
Now, I am trying to add several different mini views of this table to the Home page, Where I might list the top 10 users by upload then download.
I have successfully created the 1st for upload, is there away I can use the same code with different query options.
Are there any good tutorials in this area?
Is it relatively easy to add graphs from the same table on to the home page?
Is it possible to make the homepage refresh when ever a change occurs in the database table?
I know I am probably asking very basic questions so any pointers to good tutorials or books would be of great help.
Read this tutorial on basics how to render templates in ror.
http://guides.rubyonrails.org/layouts_and_rendering.html
http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/AbstractController/Rendering.html
For chart you can use this, github.com/ankane/chartkick
Page should refresh when any changes detected in database, for that you can visit ActionController::Live of rails casts.
http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/AbstractController/Rendering.html
For Rails Tutorials you can find out these
http://www.tutorialspoint.com/ruby-on-rails/
http://ruby.railstutorial.org/ruby-on-rails-tutorial-book
Coming to Charts you can use gruff gem it is very easy to implement and for dynamic charts you can go for highcharts
http://www.highcharts.com/
https://github.com/topfunky/gruff
Give this a try.
The Rails View: Create a Beautiful and Maintainable User Experience
- by John Athayde and Bruce Williams
http://pragprog.com/book/warv/the-rails-view
im doing a web base mobile using jquery and html and using sqlite database for log in. right now im struggling with sqlite database log in so im thinking of an alternative like using facebook credentials as a means to log in in my native app is this feasible if yes can anyone point me to right track?can someone give sample code im new in this so sample code with be helpful
I think your are searching for this:
https://developers.facebook.com/docs/facebook-login/
Samplecode will need more specification since you need to know if you will use a js-libary or for example go through the process manually.
If you need help on a specific problem feel free to ask with more specifications.
I am currently working on a database that contains two tables: tblAuthor and tblBooks. I am looking for a way to generate a timline look with a strong visual emphasis. I do not know all the possible oulets for creating reports in Access and any advice (including give up this isn't possible) would be welcome. I am hoping to format it similarly to a Gantt chart.
If there is anyway of doing this, or if you have any other suggestions please let me know!!
I work for a company that develops Gantt chart controls. We still develop, maintain and support an ActiveX Edition, which seamlessly integrates into Access. Here is an overview of some key features of the general control:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gxc4-R1Kn_4&feature=plcp
If these features do what you want your Gantt to do, then you can download a free trial version from our website. You then should also download the samples collection as this also will provide you with an example of how to directly embed the control into Access. However, make sure that you download the ActiveX version (you have to register first before downloading): http://www.netronic.com/gantt/gantt-software/free-gantt-chart.html
Hope this helps. If you have questions, please send an email to support#netronic.de, and mention the stackoverflow post from Martin. Good luck with your project :-)
If I need to build a website that allows users to update their content (personal information), and I also need to create a login system (accounts for users), does it make sense to build this from scratch using HTML/PHP, or should I go with something like Drupal or Wordpress? I don't know too much HTML/CSS/PHP but I've never touched a CMS like Drupal before.
Thanks for the advice!
well if you don't know much about those subjects then i'd suggest that you use use wordpress. it extremely easy for majority of people to pick up, has oodles of plug-ins, and tons of support.
also, in my experience i've found drupal to be a tad bit steep for most people to pick up.
Use a CMS. Developing anything beyond very basic functionality from scratch is generally a waste of time and is likely to result in an insecure system that doesn't easily scale or allow you to add additional functionality.
Both Wordpress and Drupal will do what you describe, I prefer Drupal as a more flexible and secure platform.
I'm somewhat unclear on what you are trying to accomplish but if you are looking to give users the ability to sign up for the website and attach additional information to their profile I'd use the Profile 2 module with Drupal to build out the extra profile fields you'd like to track.
I'm not as familiar with the Wordpress module landscape but a quick search finds the Cimy User Extra Fields plugin which appears to have similar functionality.
You can use buddypress framework which runs above wordpress. It comes with built in capabilities to create a social networking type web site. No need to do coding and theming. Lot of themes and plugins are available in internet to extend its default look and behaviour. Wordpress is very easy to use and you can implement addons as plugins to extend its capability. Buddypress is an addon for wordpress to create community websites. Also many video tutorials are there for learning wordpess development. Visit wordpress.org and buddypress.org
I need to
convert my Sandcastle Help File
Builder (SHFB) output that is a Web
site (HTML) to Media wiki format
Find a way to transfer/include the
converted pages directly into the
MediaWiki we have set up.
Any ideas? we have over 1000 pages of HTML files inthe Website (output of SHFB).
I thought of using a html2wiki converter ..I could think of looking around for a script to convert those 1000 pages into wiki format... that could take care of (1).
But I would still be left with the block in the last bit of the pipeline - how to feed converted pages directly into the Wiki?
Take a look at Help Server. It allows to publish .CHM / .HxS produced by any tool (including Sandcastle) on the web and provides URL-based integration API.
We use MediaWiki as well. A set of templates for it allows us to create links to class reference shared by Help Server. Some examples of such links can be found right on that page.
Note that DataObjects.Net Help web site is running on Help Server 2.X, but the newest one is 3.X (example web site is here).
I did some work with ingesting existing material from several sites into a comprehensive Wiki. It did not involve Sandcastle, but if you're dealing with HTML it shouldn't matter much. html2wiki extensions are out there, and from what I have read they can solve a lot of problems. I needed a little more control over each node in the DOM, so i used Simple HTML DOM Parser. It's in PHP and was easily dropped into Mediawiki's includes.
For creating the new pages, I ended up writing a small script that uses Mediawiki's Article class, specifically the doEdit function. this allows you to create new articles programatically, without user interaction. Of course, you'd want to be careful with this... The last thing you need is to create 1000 pages that are no good and have to be deleted. But perhaps this will help get you going.