Arun Gupta, Miles to go ...
Arun Gupta is a technology enthusiast, a passionate runner, and a community guy who works for Sun Microsystems.
Tuesday July 28, 2009
Track your running miles using JRuby, Ruby-on-Rails, GlassFish, NetBeans, MySQL, and YUI Charts
This blog introduces a new application that will provide basic tracking
of your running distance and generate charts to monitor progress. There
are numerous similar applications that are already available/hosted and
this is a very basic application. What's different about this ?
The first version of this application is built using JRuby,
Ruby-on-Rails, GlassFish Gem, MySQL, and NetBeans IDE. This combination
of technologies is a high quality Rails stack that is used in production
deploymnet at various places. Still nothing different ?
A similar version of this application
will be built using a variety of Web frameworks such as Java EE, Grails, Wicket, Spring and Struts2 (in
no particular order). The goal is to provide a similar application,
slightly bigger than "Hello World," built using different frameworks
and deploy on GlassFish.
Each framework will then be evaluated based upon the criteria ranging
from the basic principles of framework, ease-of-use in
design/development/testing/debugging/production of this web app,
database interaction, tools support, ability to add 3rd party
libraries, browser compatibility and other points.
An important point to note is that this is not an exhaustive
evaluation of different Web frameworks and the scope is limited only to
this application.
A complete list of frameworks planned is available here.
The criteria used to evaluate each framework is described here.
Your feedback in terms of Web frameworks and evaluation criteria is
highly appreciated. Please share your feedback on the users list.
Now the first version of application. The complete instructions to
check out and run the Rails version of
this application are available here.
Here are some charts generated using the application:
and
YUI is
used for all the charting capabilities.
And here is a short video that explains how the application work:
If you are a runner, check out the application and use it for tracking
your miles. A sample runlog is available in "test/fixtures/runlogs.yml"
and races in "test/fixtures/races.yml".
If you know Rails, please provide feedback if the application is DRY
and using the right set of helpers.
If you'd like the existing list of web frameworks to be pruned or
include another one to the list, let us know.
Share you feedback at users@runner.kenai.com.
Technorati: jruby
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yui chart running miles framework
Posted by Arun Gupta in Running | Comments[2]
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This is a personal weblog, I do not speak for my employer.
I am interested in the data model aspect of this kind of application. A few years ago I experimented with this http://my.opera.com/cpr/blog/show.dml/342660 model.
I tried 2 years ago to model a multi-year event database for all kinds of running-related events -- this got soon out of hand ;) (Think "heats", "cups" and "participation of a user in past years occurrences" on top of the usual authentication model *g*)
This year I run an online-league at http://www.dladg.net (german)
Anybody interested in this data modelling aspects feel free to contact me, I have entered my email in this form and ticked "notify me…"
Chris
Posted by cpr on July 29, 2009 at 12:37 AM PDT #
Posted by Arun Gupta's Blog on July 30, 2009 at 06:01 AM PDT #