A few months ago, I released a gem called quacky-charts, which could be used to draw pie charts in Rails apps.  Last night, I added a feature which allows you to draw line graphs.  The graphs are still pretty ugly, but the basic features are in place.  Improving their appearance should be pretty easy from here.  More importantly, I made a site for documentation.  Check it out at http://www.quacky-charts.com/.

After fiddling with StreetCred (a gem to handle Facebook credit integration) for a few weeks, I have a basic version available, as well as a working example at https://github.com/ragingsquirrel3/feed_the_giraffe, with some disclaimers.

Right now, the callback response is static.  The next feature I will need to add is the ability to specify product information.  For now, however, the example will stand as a proof of concept.

A few months ago I posted about the difficulties integrating Facebook credits with Rails applications, and suggested that a gem could potentially be used to simplify the callback action.  Right now, I am working on just that!  I’m working on this gem, which I call streetcred (at https://github.com/ragingsquirrel3/streetcred).  My goal for this project is to create a simple ‘handler’ object which can be initialized in the callback action.  This handler, out of the box, will correctly respond to multiple requests from the Facebook Credits Dialogue with simple Lorem Ipsum type content.  This content will be easily configurable.  

So far, it’s just some specs and basic gemspec stuff.  We’ll see how it goes…