Show HN: My first Rails Gem, Shareable – A gem for adding social sharing links

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12 points·hmango··6 comments

This is a very filigree artpiece of satire, really nice!

Looks like a way to translate Banksy graffiti into the code world, including the obligatory post to HN.

It is one of the seldom pieces that many people will never detect as ironic, because they are caught in the cage of their limited mindset of "obey" and "follow the masses".

Very refreshing, thank you very much for making my day!

Looks useful, though you may want to look into adding some tests…

What are the alternatives? Are there no other share buttons gems?

Some of the better known ones are https://github.com/huacnlee/social-share-button and https://github.com/adamstac/zocial though these don't have all the buttons of shareable and vice versa. I can't speak for the others but my gem doesn't need to be required in the view level and configuration is straight forward. Try them out and choose the best fit for you!

Is there a demo that I can just view?

Sorry haven't had time to create a demo yet but it only takes two lines of code to try the gem. To your gem file add the line: gem 'shareable' Then to your view, add the method: <%= render_shareable %> If it works you should see something similar to: http://i.imgur.com/GEJ9bAK.png with the default configuration and recommended css.

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