As I really want to learn Ruby On Rails - and as I have chosen to build a "dashboard" for our home monitoring system (and not wanting to do it in Flash - as we have both iPhones and iPads) I found a ruby gem called "acs_as_dashboard" to start off with (version 0.4.0 for those that are interested).

But after wrestling with it on and off for 2 days and still not managing to get the application up and running I managed to find a downloadable demo called "acts_as_dashboard_example" - downloaded it, and it worked immediately!
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At long last I managed to get my first Ruby On Rails application displaying something :

using the "acts_as_dashboard" gem I managed to pull data from some of the Jeeduino/Arduino sensors dotted around the house, and using various AJAX calls I can get the screen to dynamically update these values.

I know - this is not terribly advanced, but at least it is a start.

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I managed to read the following form the BBC new service

"We remain concerned about the risk of vigilante action and sex offenders going underground. All new local schemes need close management and proper resourcing to avoid this," she said.

But Chief Constable West said people would not need to share the information as police would inform any affected party.
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Just so set the scene :

- I have a iPhone 4 (Vodafone UK)

- And I have a Boingo mobile phone subscription on it (around £4/month)

I am currently sitting outside Starbucks - on my MacBook - connected to the Internet using tethering from the MacBook to the iPhone.

It looks remarkably like I can use the Boingo subscription on my iPhone to connect my MacBook to the Internet through the iPhones wireless (ie Starbucks) wifi netowrk.

Hm

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