One thing that separates us at Hashrocket is the fact that we have a great team of Ruby experts. This is great if you get stuck, there is always at least one person who can help you on something. We also follow the great agile principle of pairing, which means that if someone is doing something you are interested in, then you can watch and learn with them.
Everyone is hesitant to get into Backpack for the purposes of updating their status and it is too private to talk about on Twitter so I thought I would come up with my own solution. Originally the Backpack feature came from their In/Out application, my good friend David Smalley came up with his own Merb solution too, but I wanted something Rails and thus Holler was born.
It has only taken me 4 hours so far but I would like to introduce Holler. There are a few big features that I am planning on: Fluid integration similar to Shout, Javascript where its needed, tags, twitter integration (direct messaging to the application), more ways to view statuses.
Please feel free to fork it and make your own changes! Get Holler.
Hey! Looks nice, but after downloading and migrating the DB I get the following error, when trying to signup:
“uninitialized constant Authentication::ByPassword::ModelClassMethods::REST_AUTH_SITE_KEY”
When I set this Constant to any value, I get the next Constant-error:
“uninitialized constant Authentication::ByPassword::ModelClassMethods::REST_AUTH_DIGEST_STRETCHES”
So I set this to 1, and try again:
When I add a new Status, I get a template error:
“Missing template statuses/create.html.erb in view path ~/holler/app/views”
Also the “Log In” with the black background is laying above the “Login” label, so some CSS refining is needed there.
Just some quick notes to help to improve the app! I will get back in a few weeks
Just to confirm the above, I get the same errors.
@Soleone - The constant issue is a restful_authentication issue but I will look into it. The template error is fixed in the latest build (as of 5 seconds ago) and I will look into the Login CSS.
Just curious if anyone figured out the restful auth problem. Currently excited about the possibility of using this in our dept.
Yeah, you need to define those files in the initializers directory (the default file name is site_keys.rb). Check out the example in the latest repository.
Soleone, All those issues are fixed
Hey Zack,
Wow. I’ve been looking for an open Twitter-like app for a while now, and Holler seems to be just the thing i need.
Might even fit in nicely with my Backpack-like “clone”, which if you look, you might find on GitHub…
Keep up the good work!