RailsCamp Project & Pledgie Campaign

Published 8 November 09 by Justin French

There’s a RailsCamp coming up soon in Melbourne. The whole idea of RailsCamp is to immerse yourself in some Ruby for a few days without distractions, and I’ve been looking around for a project to sink my teeth into.

One option I have is to put some work into Formtastic’s button DSL. I personally haven’t found much need for it, but there’s been plenty of people asking. The basic idea I pitched a while back was something like this:

f.commit 
f.commit :as => :button 
f.commit :as => :link 
f.commit :as => :link, :prefix => "or" 
f.commit :as => :image 
f.commit :as => :image, :src => "save.png"
f.cancel 
f.cancel :as => :button 
f.cancel :as => :link 
f.cancel :as => :link, :prefix => "or" 
f.cancel :as => :image 
f.cancel :as => :image, :src => "cancel.png"

There’s literally hundreds of Ruby projects I’d love to hack on, and hundreds of features I could be working on that scratch my own itch, so maybe it’s time for an experiment:

There’s a Formtastic Pledgie campaign attached to the project on Github, currently sitting at $55. If the campaign reaches $555 by the time I leave for the camp on Friday November 20, I’ll make sure I focus on this button DSL (and Formtastic in general) the entire weekend. The aim is to finish and release this feature. If I’m done early, I’ll focus on documentation.

If we don’t hit the target (or go over), I’ll still make sure that your donations go directly towards improving Formtastic, of course!

So, please tweet this, blog this and spread the word however you can. If you’re able to put some cash towards the project, even better.