Hi –
I’ve just (20 minutes ago) returned from Canada on Rails (plus a
couple of days of just Canada), and happy to see a Summer of Code
buzz.
In the next day or two I’m going to set up a roadmap for Ruby
Central’s Summer of Code involvement. Basically, we’re going to need
mentors and project ideas, to start with – and it looks like we’re
getting them! I will definitely go back and glean everything and
everyone who has expressed interest on this list, and start to collect
them.
Mentors have to apply through the Summer of Code site itself
(Home | Google Summer of Code), and check off Ruby Central as the (or
one of the) organizations you’re interested in mentoring for. See the
SOC site for more details and guidelines.
That’s a start; more to follow!
David
–
David A. Black ([email protected])
Ruby Power and Light, LLC (http://www.rubypowerandlight.com)
“Ruby for Rails” PDF now on sale! Ruby for Rails
Paper version coming in early May!
On 4/17/06, [email protected] [email protected] wrote:
I’ve just (20 minutes ago) returned from Canada on Rails (plus a
couple of days of just Canada), and happy to see a Summer of Code
buzz.
I would be interested in mentoring, and have a suggestion for a
project that would benefit the Ruby community, but I will be in Europe
and mostly away from the Internet for most of July, so will need a
co-mentor.
The idea? Pure Ruby libmagic support for MIME::Types.
-austin
but I will be in Europe
Well, this is not necessarily a problem, e.g. i am studying at the
Vienna University of Technology (i.e. Europe 
and i don’t think so i
am alone with that (i.e. living/studying in Europe)
Cheers,
Peter
On 4/18/06, Peter S. [email protected] wrote:
but I will be in Europe
Well, this is not necessarily a problem, e.g. i am studying at the
Vienna University of Technology (i.e. Europe 
and i don’t think so i
am alone with that (i.e. living/studying in Europe)
Yes, but I normally live in Toronto. To rephrase: I am vacationing
with my fiancee and will be off the Internet for (on average) five out
of every seven days of the trip.
-austin
On Apr 17, 2006, at 10:43 PM, [email protected] wrote:
Mentors have to apply through the Summer of Code site itself
(Home | Google Summer of Code), and check off Ruby Central as the (or
one of the) organizations you’re interested in mentoring for. See the
SOC site for more details and guidelines.
I’ve looked for the application on that site and I guess I am dumb
today, but I don’t see it. The FAQ mentions that it is available
from the front page, but I’m still missing it. Can someone throw me
a clue over here?
James Edward G. II
Hi –
On Tue, 18 Apr 2006, James Edward G. II wrote:
From the mentor FAQ:
April 11, 2006:
- Application period open for mentoring organizations; administrators may
begin submitting applications for their orgs
- Organization administrators should begin taking mentor signups once the org
has been accepted by Google
…
Those two led me astray I guess.
I do see multiple mentions of May 1st though so I’m sure you are right. I’ll
check back then…
Mentors are supposed to start applying now, as I understand it. As a
sponsor I actually went through the mentor application process. I’m
trying to locate it again… I’ll get back to you.
David
–
David A. Black ([email protected])
Ruby Power and Light, LLC (http://www.rubypowerandlight.com)
“Ruby for Rails” PDF now on sale! Ruby for Rails
Paper version coming in early May!
In the next day or two I’m going to set up a roadmap for Ruby
Central’s Summer of Code involvement. Basically, we’re going to need
mentors and project ideas, to start with – and it looks like we’re
getting them! I will definitely go back and glean everything and
everyone who has expressed interest on this list, and start to collect
them.
One project I’d recommend, in case any more ideas are needed, is a
python-grade email parsing library. At work, we do a lot of work with
email handling, so I just can’t get away from python. At a bare
minimum, an email parsing library should be able to decode all the
email encodings (base64, quoted-printable, etc), and convert the
encoded header information (the way that unicode headers are converted
into ascii) into their native formats. Other goodies, such as being
able to read an mmap’d email rather than a string would be really nice
On Apr 18, 2006, at 8:05 AM, Vincent I. wrote:
Hi,
I’ve looked for the application on that site and I guess I am dumb
today, but I don’t see it. The FAQ mentions that it is available
from the front page, but I’m still missing it. Can someone throw me
a clue over here?
There’s no mention of it on the Mentor FAQ
From the mentor FAQ:
- I’m a developer and I’d like to mentor a student. How do I sign up?
Please submit your application to mentor for your organization using
the Summer of Code online application system. The program
administrators for your mentor organization will notify you of
acceptance or rejection after receiving your application.
And then from the overall FAQ:
- What is the timeline for Summer of Code 2006?
April 11, 2006:
- Application period open for mentoring organizations; administrators
may begin submitting applications for their orgs
- Organization administrators should begin taking mentor signups once
the org has been accepted by Google
…
Those two led me astray I guess.
I do see multiple mentions of May 1st though so I’m sure you are
right. I’ll check back then…
James Edward G. II
On 4/18/06, [email protected] [email protected] wrote:
One project I’d recommend, in case any more ideas are needed, is a
python-grade email parsing library. At work, we do a lot of work with
email handling, so I just can’t get away from python. At a bare
minimum, an email parsing library should be able to decode all the
email encodings (base64, quoted-printable, etc), and convert the
encoded header information (the way that unicode headers are converted
into ascii) into their native formats. Other goodies, such as being
able to read an mmap’d email rather than a string would be really nice
Somewhat related to this, I think it is entirely too hard to send
emails in Ruby. If you have a big Rails app and all that comes with
that you can use ActiveMailer, but from what I could see it was too
much for just a small app. Here is some idea of what I would like:
require ‘email’
Email.send(:to=>‘[email protected]’, :from=>‘[email protected]’,
subject=>‘Hi there buddy’, msg=>‘How are you doing?’)
This should try its best to just work, but if necessary there could be
a YAML file in the HOMEDIR specifying the MTA to use, etc.
If there is already something like this which I have missed, please
let me know. Or maybe ActiveMailer could be made easier to use
stand-alone.
Ryan
Ryan L. wrote:
subject=>‘Hi there buddy’, msg=>‘How are you doing?’)
That looks like the code I use to tell me when my arm of mutant robots
has located a decent DVD listing on the local library Web site.
Basic mail sending really is that simple. Aside from setting the MTA
domain and mail headers, there’s not much to it. (I believe I’ve posted
my code to this list within the last month or so, too.)
Sending mail over SSL is, I think, a different matter. But I’ve not had
to do much to get basic mail sent out from an application.
–
James B.
“In Ruby, no one cares who your parents were, all they care
about is if you know what you are talking about.”
On Tuesday 18 April 2006 2:40 pm, James B. wrote:
Email.send(:to=>‘[email protected]’, :from=>‘[email protected]’,
subject=>‘Hi there buddy’, msg=>‘How are you doing?’)
That looks like the code I use to tell me when my arm of mutant robots
has located a decent DVD listing on the local library Web site.
Basic mail sending really is that simple. Aside from setting the MTA
domain and mail headers, there’s not much to it. (I believe I’ve posted
my code to this list within the last month or so, too.)
Yes. What you show above could be implemented as a very simple wrapper
around
tmail. It would only save a handful of lines, though, over just using
tmail
directly and passing the tmail object to something like this for
sending:
def send_mail(mail)
Net::SMTP.start(‘smtp.myserver.com’, 25, Socket.gethostname)
{|smtp|
smtp.send_message(mail.encoded, mail.from, mail.to)
}
end
Kirk H.