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My first project in Rails – Pastebin for Mathematicians

#1

Post by huy » Wed, Sep 04, 2013, 3:28 PM UTC

Made this using Rails and Mathjax JS library. Sort of like the Gists for Latex. Would love to get any feedback.

My first project in Rails – Pastebin for Mathematicians
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Re: My first project in Rails – Pastebin for Mathematicians

#2

Post by beberlei » Wed, Sep 04, 2013, 3:58 PM UTC

This is very cool! I could have really used this during my time at university. :)

How about as a next step adding revisions to formulas and making them commentable, working sort of like gists?

Re: My first project in Rails – Pastebin for Mathematicians

#3

Post by pmtarantino » Wed, Sep 04, 2013, 4:03 PM UTC

Useful and simple. Congrats!

Re: My first project in Rails – Pastebin for Mathematicians

#4

Post by adamcadaver » Wed, Sep 04, 2013, 4:04 PM UTC

beberlei wrote: post #2

This is very cool! I could have really used this during my time at university. :) How about as a next step adding revisions to formulas and making them commentable, working sort of like gists?

+1 Great Work OP!!!

Re: My first project in Rails – Pastebin for Mathematicians

#5

Post by ushi » Wed, Sep 04, 2013, 4:05 PM UTC

Hmm, this doesn't work in Chrome on your https page, because you load JavaScript (MathJax) with http and Chrome refuses to do that...

Re: My first project in Rails – Pastebin for Mathematicians

#6

Post by noodly » Wed, Sep 04, 2013, 4:08 PM UTC

Theres already one: http://mathbin.net ... and you can also contribute: http://mathbin.net/contribute.html

Re: My first project in Rails – Pastebin for Mathematicians

#7

Post by jnevelson » Wed, Sep 04, 2013, 4:31 PM UTC

The 'How This Works' link is throwing a JS error in my Chrome console.

Re: My first project in Rails – Pastebin for Mathematicians

#8

Post by lysa » Wed, Sep 04, 2013, 4:35 PM UTC

noodly wrote: post #6

Theres already one: http://mathbin.net ... and you can also contribute: http://mathbin.net/contribute.html

There was already a search engine when Google started.

Re: My first project in Rails – Pastebin for Mathematicians

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Post by Sgflt » Wed, Sep 04, 2013, 4:35 PM UTC

noodly wrote: post #6

Theres already one: http://mathbin.net ... and you can also contribute: http://mathbin.net/contribute.html

I prefer the usability of the OPs much better. The use of dollar signs might be a little clunkier than the begin/end tags when you want to use a dollar sign. But all in all I think the presentation is better and a bit more welcoming.

Re: My first project in Rails – Pastebin for Mathematicians

#10

Post by nilliams » Wed, Sep 04, 2013, 4:41 PM UTC

Nice project, is there a logical next step where the text outside the dollars can be formatted with markdown (or I suppose LaTeX)?