Update: Some URL's changed, so I updated the links...
I thought that since I was involved with the new AJAX stuff in the latest Rails (0.11.1 as of this writing), that I would create a quick demo application showing how to actually use the stuff.
So I present to you
taskthis!Before you roll your eyes and say: “Ugh! Another todo list example?!”, this one is different! Honestly. Sort of. It's using the new Rails (0.11.1) asynchronous AJAX tools. It's using them a
lot. Plus, you can
download the source and play around with it.
It's been tested on Safari and Mozilla blends (Firefox/Camino), but not too extensively on Windows/IE. So I'd appreciate a shout out if you find any issues there.
Links
* style buttons
* change that #F0F0F0 background (text fields) in light light blue
* find some nice icons
* sharing?
* rss?
Thanks for releasing it, but there's some strange behaviour if you let the site alone for a while (logged in) and come back after some hours. If you then click on the "Completed" checkbox you get a login form that shifts down to the position where the completed item should sit ;-) looks cool, but I think that's not intended, is it?
Matt: There aren't any docs, really. Are you interested in API docs, or installation docs, or something else? I do plan to write an article about taskthis! that focuses on it's use of AJAX in the next few days.
Nikola: Sharing, RSS Feeds, Public Lists, and more are all on my 'nice to have' feature list. I'm debating how the public stuff should work... Can the 'public' add new tasks for you, and complete them?... Stuff like that. The RSS support will kinda depend on that decision. If anyone has any thoughts on that or further feature requests I'd be happy to hear them.
Wolfgang: Really? Heh... I wondered what would happen when the session timed-out. Thanks for pointing it out, I'll have look at that.
Misuba: Thanks for asking, I forgot to include the license. Sorry about that. It's a form of GPL, you can find it here.
how do i start the taskthis app?
Thanks for the tip.. Got it working and the code is great for a ruby/rails newbie to fiddle with.
Cheers
Am I missing something? How do you get this to work with Apache? If at all?
That's not my issue anymore. I'm getting the following error when trying to add a new task list:
NameError in Tasks#new
uninitialized constant RedCloth
/app/models/tasklist.rb:20:in `create_html'
app/controllers/tasks_controller.rb:35:in `new'
script/server:48
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