Comments on: Building “Tag Cloud” in Rails http://blainegarrett.com/2007/09/28/building-tag-cloud-in-rails/ Blaine Garrett's Home on the Web - Art, Programming, Ideas, and more Wed, 25 Jan 2012 11:48:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 By: Eduardo Mucelli http://blainegarrett.com/2007/09/28/building-tag-cloud-in-rails/comment-page-1/#comment-11 Eduardo Mucelli Mon, 03 Nov 2008 14:26:03 +0000 http://blainegarrett.com/blog/2007/09/28/building-tag-cloud-in-rails/#comment-11 Inspite of: pmin = 100 # Minimum font size pmax = 400 #Maximum font size vmin = 10000000000000 #Super large number to init min vmax = -1000000000000 #Super small number to init max for search in @popular_searches if (search.popularity vmax) vmax = search.popularity end end You could write in 2 lines: vmin = @popular_searches.sort! {|x,y| x.popularity (LESS EQUAL GREATER simbols) y.popularity }.first vmax = @popular_searches.sort! {|x,y| x.popularity (LESS EQUAL GREATER simbols) y.popularity }.last Inspite of:

pmin = 100 # Minimum font size
pmax = 400 #Maximum font size
vmin = 10000000000000 #Super large number to init min
vmax = -1000000000000 #Super small number to init max
for search in @popular_searches
if (search.popularity vmax)
vmax = search.popularity
end
end

You could write in 2 lines:

vmin = @popular_searches.sort! {|x,y| x.popularity (LESS EQUAL GREATER simbols) y.popularity }.first
vmax = @popular_searches.sort! {|x,y| x.popularity (LESS EQUAL GREATER simbols) y.popularity }.last

]]> By: Eduardo Mucelli http://blainegarrett.com/2007/09/28/building-tag-cloud-in-rails/comment-page-1/#comment-10 Eduardo Mucelli Mon, 03 Nov 2008 14:24:47 +0000 http://blainegarrett.com/blog/2007/09/28/building-tag-cloud-in-rails/#comment-10 In the last post the html parser ate some of my code: Inspite of: |x,y| x.popularity y.popularity should be: |x,y| x.popularity (LESS EQUAL GREATER simbols) y.popularity In the last post the html parser ate some of my code:

Inspite of:

|x,y| x.popularity y.popularity

should be:

|x,y| x.popularity (LESS EQUAL GREATER simbols) y.popularity

]]> By: Eduardo Mucelli http://blainegarrett.com/2007/09/28/building-tag-cloud-in-rails/comment-page-1/#comment-9 Eduardo Mucelli Mon, 03 Nov 2008 14:22:59 +0000 http://blainegarrett.com/blog/2007/09/28/building-tag-cloud-in-rails/#comment-9 In the last post the html parser ate some code: Inspite of: |x,y| x.popularity y.popularity should be: |x,y| x.popularity (LESS EQUAL GREATER simbols) y.popularity In the last post the html parser ate some code:

Inspite of:

|x,y| x.popularity y.popularity

should be:

|x,y| x.popularity (LESS EQUAL GREATER simbols) y.popularity

]]> By: Eduardo Mucelli http://blainegarrett.com/2007/09/28/building-tag-cloud-in-rails/comment-page-1/#comment-8 Eduardo Mucelli Mon, 03 Nov 2008 14:20:54 +0000 http://blainegarrett.com/blog/2007/09/28/building-tag-cloud-in-rails/#comment-8 Inspite of: pmin = 100 # Minimum font size pmax = 400 #Maximum font size vmin = 10000000000000 #Super large number to init min vmax = -1000000000000 #Super small number to init max for search in @popular_searches if (search.popularity vmax) vmax = search.popularity end end You could write in 2 lines: vmin = @popular_searches.sort! {|x,y| x.popularity y.popularity }.first vmax = @popular_searches.sort! {|x,y| x.popularity y.popularity }.last Inspite of:

pmin = 100 # Minimum font size
pmax = 400 #Maximum font size
vmin = 10000000000000 #Super large number to init min
vmax = -1000000000000 #Super small number to init max
for search in @popular_searches
if (search.popularity vmax)
vmax = search.popularity
end
end

You could write in 2 lines:

vmin = @popular_searches.sort! {|x,y| x.popularity y.popularity }.first
vmax = @popular_searches.sort! {|x,y| x.popularity y.popularity }.last

]]> By: Brecht Monkerhey http://blainegarrett.com/2007/09/28/building-tag-cloud-in-rails/comment-page-1/#comment-12 Brecht Monkerhey Sun, 08 Jun 2008 15:00:45 +0000 http://blainegarrett.com/blog/2007/09/28/building-tag-cloud-in-rails/#comment-12 Nice! Simple yet works flawless and saved me half an hour of trying and testing to get that size right. Thanks a lot. Nice! Simple yet works flawless and saved me half an hour of trying and testing to get that size right. Thanks a lot.

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