https://github.com/doriantaylor/rb-app-angrierfruitsalad

Leaner. Angrier. Fruitier.
https://github.com/doriantaylor/rb-app-angrierfruitsalad

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Leaner. Angrier. Fruitier.

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/doriantaylor/rb-app-angrierfruitsalad
• Owner: doriantaylor
• License: apache-2.0
• Created: 2020-01-10T20:32:38.000Z (about 5 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2020-01-11T02:58:36.000Z (about 5 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2023-03-12T10:11:35.708Z (almost 2 years ago)
• Language: Ruby
• Size: 9.77 KB
• Stars: 0
• Watchers: 1
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 0
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  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE

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# App::AngrierFruitSalad — I am Using the Computer

Once upon a time there was the [Angry Fruit

Salad](https://github.com/doriantaylor/p5-app-angryfruitsalad), which

was a demonstration project to automatically render a graph database

as a website. It was called that because by default, every vocabulary

in the graph was given a slice of the colour spectrum, making every

page [a garish shotgun blast of rainbow

text](http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/A/angry-fruit-salad.html).

For a lot of reasons, the Angry Fruit Salad wasn't very good. Mainly,

it wasn't very good because you couldn't really _do_ anything with it

other than just look at it, and it wasn't especially nice to look at.

But it did prove a point:

There are a lot of things on the Web which are not _pages_ per se, but

rather some kind of _record_ or structured data object. A "page",

then, is just _one_ possible representation of such an object (contra

say, a wad of JSON, a spreadsheet, whatever).

When these objects are individually _addressable_, and respresented as

Web pages, it turns out to be _extremely_ useful for navigating and

comprehending vast sets of interrelated information; indeed, creating

these systems is what we Web professionals spend most of our time doing.

If, however, we can _systematize_ the

represent-structured-data-objects-as-Web-pages part of the process, we

can shrink it to a _point_, leaving us much more time to work with the

_content_, rather than fuss over the technical minutiae of its

representation. This is what the Angry Fruit Salad was intended to

achieve—and even _did_ to some extent.

The _Angrier_ Fruit Salad, then, is a reprise of these principles,

intended to actually _function_. This time around it is written in

Ruby, and demonstrates a number of other ideas on top of the basic

premise of "take a graph database and turn it into a website".

## Installation

For now, you will have to clone [the GitHub

repository](https://github.com/doriantaylor/rb-app-angrierfruitsalad).

Later, probably:

    $ gem install app-angrierfruitsalad

Or, [download it off

rubygems.org](https://rubygems.org/gems/app-angrierfruitsalad).

## Contributing

Bug reports and pull requests are welcome at

[the GitHub repository](https://github.com/doriantaylor/rb-app-angrierfruitsalad/issues).

## Copyright & License

©2020 [Dorian Taylor](https://doriantaylor.com/)

This software is provided under

the [Apache License, 2.0](https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0).