From: andrea <kerny404@...>
Date: 2009-01-05T19:15:10+09:00
Subject: Re: Reimplementation address book program

On 4 Gen, 22:08, Todd Benson <caduce...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 1:53 PM, andrea <kerny...@gmail.com> wrote:
> These are hard questions to answer, because they involve many other
> questions (like, do you require a certain look or user interface, are
> you adverse to learning a new framework, time constraints,
> performance, etc.)  Rails is pretty heavy duty, but if you plan on
> learning it anyway and don't mind a little feature bloat, I suppose it
> might work for you.
>

So I think I will go to rails after, but I like to do things gradually
when I'm learning something.
I'm not in hurry (there's already an interfacean working even if
incomplete)
d I'm firstly interested in learning now.
>
> Are you stuck with Haml?  Maybe take a look at Camping and Markaby if
> the requirements for the web-based app are not overly rigorous.

No Haml is really fine, it was just to know if it could work anyway...
I think
it could, as long as apache calls a ruby file each time and the ruby
file
renders the template
>
> I haven't played with the LDAP library yet, so I can't comment on it.
>

There's active_ldap but I don't get it to work on Leopard and even on
ubuntu 8.04, not a big deal net/ldap is just fine for me.

I don't understand why only here on ruby half of my messages are not
actually
posted even it gives me no errros...
I'll have to remember to write them inside textmate so I can repost
them.

This is a start point of the classes I need (not many in fact)

class Entry
  attr_reader :multiple, :long
  def initialize(ar1, ar2)
    @multiple = ["mobile", "telephoneNumber", "mail"]
    @long = ["description"]
  end
end

class Person < Entry
  # they can just be readonly attributes
  attr_reader :attrs, :cn, :sn, :fields
  # inside other there is a hash containing all other fields set
  def initialize(cn, sn, other)
    @attrs = {
      :attributes => ["cn", "sn", "o", "ou", "mobile",
"telephoneNumber", "mail", "description"],
      :strict => ["cn", "sn"],
      :dn => ["dn"]
    }
    # super
    @fields = {:cn => cn, :sn => sn}
    other.each_pair do |key, val|
      # don't overwrite already compiled fields
      if @attrs[:attributes].member?(key) and (not @fields.has_key?
(key))
        @fields[key] = val
      end
    end
  end

  def to_s
    pp @fields
  end
end

class Factory < Entry
  attr_reader :attrs
  def initialize(o)
    @@attrs = {
      :attributes =>
["o","telephoneNumber","facsimileTelephoneNumber","l","postalCode","street","description"],
      :strict => ["o"],
      :dn => ["o"]
    }
    @o = o
  end
end

Then there are some methods that retrieve or updates the informations
and
some templates to show everything.