Push Notifications in Rhodes using Ruby

I tried Push notifications concept in Rhodes using Rhoconnect and its works well. The documentation for the same is also nice.

For one of my project there was no need for Rhoconnect and so I wanted to get Push Notification done using Ruby (without Rhoconnect).
Here is the sample code I tried.Create a simple Rhodes app using rhodes app app_name

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Memcached with Rails 3 configuration.

First install memcached in your machine and make sure its running.

After installing memcached to make sure its running, try starting the server using the below command in the terminal

/etc/init.d/memcached start

memcached -vv # show memcached log in console

add the below to your Gemfile

gem 'memcache-client' # memcached client for ruby

RVM Gemsets to maintain multiple versions of gems

RVM made my life easier to run multiple versions of ruby and rails in Ubuntu.
Installing RVM

If we want to maintain two different versions of gem under a single ruby version, we can create a named gemsets for different versions and switch between them easily.
Recently I came across something called gemsets.

The below command creates a gemset named gemsetname.
rvm 1.9.2@gemsetname --create

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Github-client using Rhodes

I am new to Rhodes, In Rhomobile landing page they have a quote saying "Use your web skills to write NATIVE apps once and build for ALL smartphones with" impressed me a lot.

Rhodes is a nice cross-platform language for web developers to write mobile native apps which includes(iPhone, Android, Blackberry).

Their docs is really cool http://docs.rhomobile.com , I started with the help of Rhomobile docs and now am able to write a decent mobile apps using Rhodes.

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Jammit installation issue (no such file to load — win32/open3 (LoadError)) in Windows

In one of my project I am using Jammit which provides both the CSS and JavaScript concatenation, compression and also provides built-in JavaScript template support.

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Three New things in Ruby 1.9.x

There are lot more things improved in Ruby 1.9.2, I am going to discuss about 3 new things I liked which is introduced in Ruby 1.9.x.

Block Variable Scope in Ruby 1.9.x

Block arguments don't clash with local variables, arguments are always local.

This is a nice fix in Ruby 1.9 .

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Coffeescript installation with helloworld

Had a look at coffee-script, really cool just wanted to give it a try .

The command-line version of coffee is available as a Node.js utility.

The coffeescript code is compiled into JavaScript and the number of lines we write is less than javascript code.

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