When I said %{match.winner_team.manager.name}, please read %{match.winner_team.manager_name}

now need to recorrect that article again:)

i think more types ( just match result is not enough)… may be some analyisis and other type options should also be provided

As soon as we have enough match results articles to launch the newspaper we’ll start adding more categories ;)

what would the tag be for man of the Match? (MOM)

use %{match.man_of_the_match.name} for now

Nirabdha, we have many types of article planned. My choice when implementing was to first implement the one I thought was the most important. But now that we have a full structure behind the newspaper it will be easy and fast to start adding more types.

If i may, i think the newspaper would be alot more interesting if there where interviews in them a.s.a.p..

Totally agree. But first we have to completely stablish what we already have.

So any update regarding the newspaper? :) Articles going fast/good? I’m really waiting for it ;)

I expect that I will be able to turn the newspaper on next week. We still need more templates. I am going to post here the types we need as soon as I get home.

cheers!

Special thanks to James Prentice and Neil Green, our biggest templates contributors. Here are the classifications we need most:

[1, 0, #] >>The winner and the loser really were the expected teams
[1, 0, 0] >>>>>>Scores exactly as expected
[1, 0, 1] >>>>>>Small positive difference. Example: expectation 1×0 result 2×0
[1, 0, 2] >>>>>>Medium positive difference. Example: expectation 1×0 result 3×0
[1, 0, 3] >>>>>>Large positive difference. Example: expectation 1×0 result 4×0
[1, 0, 4] >>>>>>Small negative difference. Example: expectation 4×0 result 3×0
[1, 0, 5] >>>>>>Medium negative difference. Example: expectation 4×0 result 2×0
[1, 1, #] >>The winner and the loser were not the expected teams
[1, 1, 1] >>>>>>Small difference. Example: expectation 1×0 result 0×1
[1, 1, 2] >>>>>>Medium difference. Example: expectation 1×0 result 0×2

[1, 2, #] >>>>Tied match result (Both teams scored the same number of goals)
[1, 2, 0] >>>>>>Scores exactly as expected
[1, 2, 1] >>>>>>Small difference. Example: expectation 1×0 result 1×1
[1, 2, 2] >>>>>>Medium difference. Example: expectation 2×0 result 1×1

Also , we need size variety. We have 3 options of sizes, the small one is going to be more frequent on our newspaper. But we need templates for all 3 sizes!

cheers!

how much should we rely on the letter count displayed in the editor. Variables are going to be replaced and those are never going to be accurate. i think word count would be more accurate.

The difference between the variables size and the actual words that will replace them is usually small enough to be ignored. You can trust the character count for now :)

variables are kinda correct, check my medium ticker team; “Queens Park Rangers”. Hehe, let’s hope to see something online next week!

Sorry for the long delay. As usual in the development world, got some unexpected shit happening. But now we are in the latest rails version. Enjoy!

Country Newspaper is online without any articles?

Yep, I did not enable the article generation yet. It is just to give you guys a teaser :D. By the way, if you have any suggestions about the design, please let me know.

One more thing, we’ve just found out a bug in the messages parameters. This means that you guys will receive messages with texts like “Something %{adjective} happened!”. This is not a bug in RubySoccer, but in one of the new translation plugins. We’ve already opened a bug for that in the original package. If the situation is not quickly resolved we might rollback to the previous versions of our stuff, for now… Will keep you guys posted.

As long as it looks like my original design which i made im happy :P Btw the tick horizontal line should be green ;) Check the pic i sended.

No problem :). By the way, did not adjust the contributors page yet but I will. Did not let you guys know before, but Vaughn is the one who suggested this design. I did not implement exactly what he has suggested, but a 90% similar one.

nice one vaughn, and nice to see a glimpse from the ’98 world cup final.

Our newspaper presses are on! It is still a little bit buggy due to the fact we did not get the fix from our developer plugin and other smaller things, but I think it is already enjoyable as a “beta”! So enjoy!

By the way, thanks again to our “reporters” ! I will add their name in each one of the articles. cheers!

it looks…sorry….ugly! Or is that only firefox?

now it would be a good time for a suggestion, in this case :)

i still like the page i designed…this doesn’t look anything like it!

About the newspaper: It would be nice to have some option about the level of the match, so some articles wound’t sound so strange talking about a friendlies… Or the levels of the teams. So when we had a Bayern vs Hertha in Germany it could be named in the newspaper as the “match of the season”.

PS: please remove the picture too :P

No, I like this picture :). Kidding, will remove soon.

here, a little spoiler to guys who didn’t see it yet, http://www.kreja.nl/rommel/ruby-newsp.jpg ;)

There at least 4 basic differences between your picture and the current design:

1) text font: that is a part that could be worked on. but we have to keep in mind that sometimes we can´t have huge fonts on titles. some of the titles are long!
2) the column in the right: well, this is the first version of our newspaper and, as we said, it only contains match result types of articles, for now.
3) the picture: i will still implement tat. the idea is to have a good variety of pictures, but they have to be very generic for this type of article.
4) Interview: again, to be implemented. only match result article types for now.

Other than that, we still don’t have enough templates do populate all of our most important news, and we still need to adjust/provide some more parameters for our reporters.

Here’s my suggestion so we can improve the current design: save one of our newspaper pages (backup the files), make your adjustments and send us back both packages (the backup and the adjusted one, so we can compare and see the code differences). I understand that, with the current design, you don’t even want to be mentioned as a contributor for that page :D.

cheers!