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Rubigraph
- 2008-05-25 (Sun)
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Summary
I wrote a Rubigraph, a Ruby wrapper for Ubigraph .
What is Ubigraph
I recently found Ubigraph, a nice visualization tool. Though I’m also big fan of Graphviz, which generates static graph visualization, I got falling in love with Ubigraph because it’s so dynamic. Ubigraph can add, remove and change nodes, edges, and their attributes. It’s amazing! See demonstration movie.
It is based on client/server architecture. Though the server source code is closed, its XML-RPC API is open, and we can write our client application easily. It has Mac OS X and Linux binaries.
What is Rubigraph
But, I cannot put up with writing XML-RPC by referencing API manual every time ! So I made a small Ruby wrap for it, and released it as Rubigraph.
Install
Type gem install rubygraph.
Its place in Rubyforge is here.
Source code
How do I write a graph
require 'rubigraph' Rubigraph.init # initialize XML-RPC client. v1 = Vertex.new v2 = Vertex.new e12 = Edge.new(v1, v2) v1.color = '#003366' v2.shape = 'sphere' e12.label = 'edge between 1 and 2'
It seems easy, isn’t it?
Conclusion
It’s a fun to visualize some data dynamically. I’m using it for tracing function calls, feeling so convinient. Ubigraph++.
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Write a Quicksilver plugin with RubyCocoa
- 2008-02-03 (Sun)
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I wrote a Quicksilver plugin with RubyCocoa, that adds “hello world” to the passed string.
- Xcode project codes : in CodeRepos
- License : revised BSD
It should work on Tiger/Leopard if RubyCocoa is installed.
How does it work
As I mentioned in QuartzComposer CustomPatch with RubyCocoa, we just call RBBundleInit() function in plugin initializaiton phase to write some plugin with RubyCocoa. But wait, where should be the initializaiton code in Quicksilver plugin ?
We write actual plugin behavior in the class that inherits QSActionProvider,
so I tried to call RBBundleInit() in the init() method in that class… however, that resulted in crashing Quicksilver
Then I called RBBundleInit() at only first time in performActionOnObject() of the actual Action class, and made references between Objective-C and Ruby class instances.
After that, I implemented an actual action behavior in Ruby class, and delegates from Objective-C to Ruby method, thats’ all.
This is ugly, confusing, … I know, but it does work well
Code Snippets
ActionProvider in Objective-C:
(QSObject *)performActionOnObject:(QSObject *)dObject{ // initialize RubyCocoa static bool loaded = false; if (!loaded) { if (RBBundleInit("qs_action.rb", [self class], self)) { NSLog(@"[RubyCocoaPluginAction.performActionOnObject] RBBundleInit failed" ); abort(); } loaded = true; } // delegate actual action to Ruby class QSObject *ret = [QSObject objectWithString:[rb_ act:dObject]]; return ret; }
RubyCocoa side:
class Action def initialize(logger) @logger = logger end # write something great :) # - arg : QSObject def act(arg) val = arg.stringValue @logger.info(val) 'Hello world, ' + val end end # Action require 'osx/cocoa' OSX.init_for_bundle do |bdl, owner, log| # bdl - the bundle related with the 2nd argument of RBBundleInit # owner - the 3rd argument of RBBundleInit as optional data # log - logger for this block act = Action.new(log) owner.setInstance act end
Future works
- Better initializaiton. It should be in constractor of some class)
- Inherits QSActionProvider by Ruby class (more pure Ruby)
- Use ns_import ?
It should not be “With RubyCocoa”, but rather “By RubyCocoa”.
Conclusion
I made a start point to write a Quicksilver plugin by RubyCocoa. It is timing of initialization that is to be considered about writing some bundle in RubyCocoa. I made it in this article somehow. This article is for someone who wants to create Quicksilver plugin by Ruby, not learning unfamiliar Objective-C.
Reference
- QuartzComposer CustomPatch by RubyCocoa
- PyObjC Plug-ins : Article about writing Quicksilver plugin by PyObjC (a bit obsolete…)
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user_timeline_to_ical
- 2007-10-17 (Wed)
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What is this ?
A simple Ruby script that generates iCalendar format from Twitter user_timeline.
Download
Requirements
following gems installed:
- json
- icalendar
How to use
simply type
ruby user_timeline_to_ical.rb [your_screen_name]
to print out recent 20 events in iCalendar format to stdout.
Redirect its output to a file, then import it with iCal or Google Calendar.
Screenshot
Future …
I’m developing a web service that serves iCalendar feed (by sending direct message to tracking bot). You will subscribe its URL to see your past behaviors at some time.
Code
Try it !
# # create iCalendar from recent 20 user_timeline. # # usage # ruby user_timeline_to_ical.rb [username] > some.ics # require 'rubygems' require 'json' require 'icalendar' require 'uri' require 'open-uri' require 'kconv' require 'nkf' require 'logger' KCODE = 'u' # XXX: # quick fix to avoid charset crash module Icalendar class Component < Icalendar::Base def print_properties s = "" @properties.each do |key,val| # Take out underscore for property names that conflicted # with built-in words. if key =~ /ip_.*/ key = key[3..-1] end # Property name unless multiline_property?(key) prelude = "#{key.gsub(/_/, '-').upcase}" + # Possible parameters print_parameters(val) # Property value value = ":#{val.to_ical}" escaped = prelude + value.gsub("\\", "\\\\").gsub("\n", "\\n").gsub(",", "\\,").gsub(";", "\\;") #escaped = value #s << escaped.slice!(0, MAX_LINE_LENGTH) << "\r\n " while escaped.size > MAX_LINE_LENGTH # XXX : quick fix to avoid charset crash s << escaped << "\r\n" s.gsub!(/ *$/, '') else prelude = "#{key.gsub(/_/, '-').upcase}" val.each do |v| params = print_parameters(v) value = ":#{v.to_ical}" escaped = prelude + params + value.gsub("\\", "\\\\").gsub("\n", "\\n").gsub(",", "\\,").gsub(";", "\\;") s << escaped.slice!(0, MAX_LINE_LENGTH) << "\r\n " while escaped.size > MAX_LINE_LENGTH s << escaped << "\r\n" s.gsub!(/ *$/, '') end end end s end end end class UserTimeLine attr_accessor :id, :since URL = 'http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/' def initialize(id) @id = id #@log = Logger.new('debug.log') end def get(url) JSON.parse(open(url).readlines.join).sort { |a, b| a['id'] <=> b['id'] } end def url(*arg) url = URL + @id + '.json' return url if arg.empty? hash = arg[0] args = {} args['page'] = hash[:page] if hash[:page] if hash[:since] if String == hash[:since].class args['since'] = URI.escape(hash[:since].split.join('+')) else # should be Number args['since_id'] = hash[:since] end end arg = args.collect { |k, v| [k, v].join('=') }.join('&') url + '?' + arg end def to_ical msgs = get(url).collect {|x| [x['text'], x['created_at']]} cal = Icalendar::Calendar.new (msgs.size-1).times do |i| cal.event do dtstart DateTime.parse(msgs[i][1]).to_ical(true) dtend DateTime.parse(msgs[i+1][1]).to_ical(true) summary msgs[i][0] end end cal.to_ical end end utl = UserTimeLine.new(ARGV.shift) print NKF.nkf('-w -Lw', utl.to_ical)
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