A vote of thanks

Hey Rails Girls Summer of Code ! A big THANK YOU for changing our life and making us realize that we possess the potential to make our ideas work. We want to thank from heart to all those who gave us strength and encouragement and kept us alive throughout. A special thanks to: Andy, the […]

‘I’m possible’!

In order to remove content from email notifications, Sakshi made following changes step wise: Modified the comment_message function in the helper files to return a link to the post on diaspora* excluding the content of the comment received on a post.  Here, she commited the commented code because she was afraid of losing some code. […]

Struggling with Action Mailer Views

Hi !! Just one more step left for one more pull request being merged to diaspora*. We need to add some markdown to make a link clickable in the Action Mailer Views. There were some error messages troubling us in the log. ActionView::Template::Error (private method `post’ called for nil:NilClass): 1: [<%= t(‘notifier.comment_on_post.post_activity’, :link => link_to(t(“href”) Trying […]

The notifier specs

The specs written for email notifications were outdated. We wrote new specs for asserting that it would include a link to the post and would not include @comment.text. The comment_message method in the helper file includes the link to the post. We had to interpolate that link. We learnt about Internationalization in Rails through I18n. […]

New Pull Request to diaspora* :-)

With the help of our great supervisor Tobias and our mentor Florian, we figured out how to remove content from the email notifications received from any post activity in diaspora* and how to link to that post via email. 🙂 And, we have one more pull request to diaspora*. \o/ We also read the discussions going on […]

Feeling open source!!

Well, diaspora* community is a true example of open source concept. Each and every new idea is first discussed and implemented only if majority agrees. There is a specific loomio.org user friendly tool for group decision-making. We too opened a discussion there 😉 Side by side we are trying to make our rails concepts stronger. 🙂 Happy […]

Jasmine tests and email notifications

https://github.com/diaspora/diaspora/pull/4482/files#r6099931 We figured out why jasmine doesn’t find any tests, it’s because of asyntax error . With the help of error console we fixed the syntaxerrors. Simple steps to be followed while writing tests – [1] Understand the inputs[2] Understand the code written to get the output[3] In tests check for right inputs , and […]