Rails - Jun 2007 - SugarStats.com Launched - Online Diabetes Management site built with Rails

Hey all,

Just wanted to announce after months of development and beta testing
we''re launching our new Rails based app for diabetics:
http://www.sugarstats.com

It''s definitely not you''re "typical" Rails based Web
2.0 app, but we
think it has some value none-the-less ;-)  SugarStats.com provides
simple blood sugar tracking for diabetes management and in building it
we focused on ease of use and simplicity.  I guess you could think of
it as web stats for diabetes.

Initially it was a personal project (15 year diabetic here), I learned
Rails from scratch to do it which was fun to say the least.  With such
tremendous feedback from others wanting to use it I pretty much had no
choice but to work on it full time.

We''re built off good ol'' homegrown CRUD/REST with Ajax/RJS
sprinkled
on in just the right places (MmmmMmmmTasty!).  I''m pretty sure I
couldn''t have done it without Rails or the Rails community (you guys)
so I wanted to say thanks for all the help and putting up with my
newbie questions in the beginning.  You all are quite the fine
bunch :-)

With 194 million people worldwide and 21 million in the U.S. alone
coping with diabetes daily, hopefully we can help make a difference
and utilize all this great technology at our disposal to help keep
things under control.

If you''re diabetic or know someone who is, you probably want to check
it out:

http://www.sugarstats.com/

I thought some might want to have a glimpse on the technical side so I
wrote a post with a few more details:
http://www.marstononline.com/2007/sugarstatscom-launches-simple-blood-sugar-tracking-for-diabetes-built-with-ruby-on-rails/


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Not to take the wind out of your sails (and this may not anyway), but
Revolution Health has had a blood sugar tracker available for months on our
Rails-based portal:

https://www.revolutionhealth.com/trackers/blood-glucose/chart

--Greg

On Thu, Jun 21, 2007 at 03:43:44PM -0000, Marston A.
wrote:
> 
> Hey all,
> 
> Just wanted to announce after months of development and beta testing
> we''re launching our new Rails based app for diabetics:
http://www.sugarstats.com
> 
> It''s definitely not you''re "typical" Rails
based Web 2.0 app, but we
> think it has some value none-the-less ;-)  SugarStats.com provides
> simple blood sugar tracking for diabetes management and in building it
> we focused on ease of use and simplicity.  I guess you could think of
> it as web stats for diabetes.
> 
> Initially it was a personal project (15 year diabetic here), I learned
> Rails from scratch to do it which was fun to say the least.  With such
> tremendous feedback from others wanting to use it I pretty much had no
> choice but to work on it full time.
> 
> We''re built off good ol'' homegrown CRUD/REST with
Ajax/RJS sprinkled
> on in just the right places (MmmmMmmmTasty!).  I''m pretty sure I
> couldn''t have done it without Rails or the Rails community (you
guys)
> so I wanted to say thanks for all the help and putting up with my
> newbie questions in the beginning.  You all are quite the fine
> bunch :-)
> 
> With 194 million people worldwide and 21 million in the U.S. alone
> coping with diabetes daily, hopefully we can help make a difference
> and utilize all this great technology at our disposal to help keep
> things under control.
> 
> If you''re diabetic or know someone who is, you probably want to
check
> it out:
> 
> http://www.sugarstats.com/
> 
> I thought some might want to have a glimpse on the technical side so I
> wrote a post with a few more details:
>
http://www.marstononline.com/2007/sugarstatscom-launches-simple-blood-sugar-tracking-for-diabetes-built-with-ruby-on-rails/
> 
> 
> > 
> 
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Greg,

Awesome!  Tell you the truth I think the more tools out there for
diabetics to utilize the better.  And I guess when we started
development over a year ago you guys weren''t around.  The cool thing
is that now there are a others who see the need for a solution
(sweetspot.fm, mysugars.com etc) and we all take a slightly different
slant to it, different feature sets and different interfaces to work
with.

On Jun 21, 5:56 pm, Gregory Seidman
<gsslist+...-dNXPQ6k9rNiG6BJUYyje5axOck334EZe@public.gmane.org>
wrote:
> Not to take the wind out of your sails (and this may not anyway), but
> Revolution Health has had a blood sugar tracker available for months on our
> Rails-based portal:
>
> https://www.revolutionhealth.com/trackers/blood-glucose/chart
>
> --Greg
>
> On Thu, Jun 21, 2007 at 03:43:44PM -0000, Marston A. wrote:
>
> > Hey all,
>
> > Just wanted to announce after months of development and beta testing
> > we''re launching our new Rails based app for
diabetics:http://www.sugarstats.com
>
> > It''s definitely not you''re "typical" Rails
based Web 2.0 app, but we
> > think it has some value none-the-less ;-)  SugarStats.com provides
> > simple blood sugar tracking for diabetes management and in building it
> > we focused on ease of use and simplicity.  I guess you could think of
> > it as web stats for diabetes.
>
> > Initially it was a personal project (15 year diabetic here), I learned
> > Rails from scratch to do it which was fun to say the least.  With such
> > tremendous feedback from others wanting to use it I pretty much had no
> > choice but to work on it full time.
>
> > We''re built off good ol'' homegrown CRUD/REST with
Ajax/RJS sprinkled
> > on in just the right places (MmmmMmmmTasty!).  I''m pretty
sure I
> > couldn''t have done it without Rails or the Rails community
(you guys)
> > so I wanted to say thanks for all the help and putting up with my
> > newbie questions in the beginning.  You all are quite the fine
> > bunch :-)
>
> > With 194 million people worldwide and 21 million in the U.S. alone
> > coping with diabetes daily, hopefully we can help make a difference
> > and utilize all this great technology at our disposal to help keep
> > things under control.
>
> > If you''re diabetic or know someone who is, you probably want
to check
> > it out:
>
> >http://www.sugarstats.com/
>
> > I thought some might want to have a glimpse on the technical side so I
> > wrote a post with a few more details:
>
>http://www.marstononline.com/2007/sugarstatscom-launches-simple-blood...

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This looks interesting, but you need to support data import from  
meters and pumps otherwise the data entry is going to be a real barrier.

We started out keeping logs, but now that we can just load the data  
from meters and pumps, we rely on that exclusively.

Michael



On Jun 21, 2007, at 8:43 AM, Marston A. wrote:
>
> Hey all,
>
> Just wanted to announce after months of development and beta testing
> we''re launching our new Rails based app for diabetics: http:// 
> www.sugarstats.com
>
> It''s definitely not you''re "typical" Rails
based Web 2.0 app, but we
> think it has some value none-the-less ;-)  SugarStats.com provides
> simple blood sugar tracking for diabetes management and in building it
> we focused on ease of use and simplicity.  I guess you could think of
> it as web stats for diabetes.
>
> Initially it was a personal project (15 year diabetic here), I learned
> Rails from scratch to do it which was fun to say the least.  With such
> tremendous feedback from others wanting to use it I pretty much had no
> choice but to work on it full time.
>
> We''re built off good ol'' homegrown CRUD/REST with
Ajax/RJS sprinkled
> on in just the right places (MmmmMmmmTasty!).  I''m pretty sure I
> couldn''t have done it without Rails or the Rails community (you
guys)
> so I wanted to say thanks for all the help and putting up with my
> newbie questions in the beginning.  You all are quite the fine
> bunch :-)
>
> With 194 million people worldwide and 21 million in the U.S. alone
> coping with diabetes daily, hopefully we can help make a difference
> and utilize all this great technology at our disposal to help keep
> things under control.
>
> If you''re diabetic or know someone who is, you probably want to
check
> it out:
>
> http://www.sugarstats.com/
>
> I thought some might want to have a glimpse on the technical side so I
> wrote a post with a few more details:
> http://www.marstononline.com/2007/sugarstatscom-launches-simple- 
> blood-sugar-tracking-for-diabetes-built-with-ruby-on-rails/
>
>
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Michael,

Yup, we''ve got a few supported.  Unfortunately almost all the major
meter manufacturers uses a different or proprietary format and are as
far from standardized as you can get.  www.bernardfarrell.com/ is
actually working on an initiative to collaborate with between them and
use a common microformat (similar to hCard).  What would be great is
if we can a common format with the CGM devices out there, instant
access to hundreds of readings throughout the day.

On Jun 21, 6:27 pm, Michael Latta <lat...-ee4meeAH724@public.gmane.org>
wrote:
> This looks interesting, but you need to support data import from
> meters and pumps otherwise the data entry is going to be a real barrier.
>
> We started out keeping logs, but now that we can just load the data
> from meters and pumps, we rely on that exclusively.
>
> Michael
>
> On Jun 21, 2007, at 8:43 AM, Marston A. wrote:
>
>
>
> > Hey all,
>
> > Just wanted to announce after months of development and beta testing
> > we''re launching our new Rails based app for diabetics:
http://
> >www.sugarstats.com
>
> > It''s definitely not you''re "typical" Rails
based Web 2.0 app, but we
> > think it has some value none-the-less ;-)  SugarStats.com provides
> > simple blood sugar tracking for diabetes management and in building it
> > we focused on ease of use and simplicity.  I guess you could think of
> > it as web stats for diabetes.
>
> > Initially it was a personal project (15 year diabetic here), I learned
> > Rails from scratch to do it which was fun to say the least.  With such
> > tremendous feedback from others wanting to use it I pretty much had no
> > choice but to work on it full time.
>
> > We''re built off good ol'' homegrown CRUD/REST with
Ajax/RJS sprinkled
> > on in just the right places (MmmmMmmmTasty!).  I''m pretty
sure I
> > couldn''t have done it without Rails or the Rails community
(you guys)
> > so I wanted to say thanks for all the help and putting up with my
> > newbie questions in the beginning.  You all are quite the fine
> > bunch :-)
>
> > With 194 million people worldwide and 21 million in the U.S. alone
> > coping with diabetes daily, hopefully we can help make a difference
> > and utilize all this great technology at our disposal to help keep
> > things under control.
>
> > If you''re diabetic or know someone who is, you probably want
to check
> > it out:
>
> >http://www.sugarstats.com/
>
> > I thought some might want to have a glimpse on the technical side so I
> > wrote a post with a few more details:
> >http://www.marstononline.com/2007/sugarstatscom-launches-simple-
> > blood-sugar-tracking-for-diabetes-built-with-ruby-on-rails/
>
> > >
>
>
>  smime.p7s
> 3KDownload

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Michael

Bernard here. Marston''s right. I don''t know of any two meters
that have
the same data format. And those that do support have an export command 
produce different formats also.

I''ve been talking and thinking about this for a while, and
I''ve been
bitten by the lack of a common format for many years.

If you want to read more got to the Diabetes Data Wiki at 
http://diabetesdata.pbwiki.com.

And Marston''s done a great job at SugarStats. I''ll have to
look at the
revolutionhealth site.

Bernard
http://www.bernardfarrell.com/blog/blogger.html


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Michael

Did you work on revolutionhealth?  Can you drop me an email?
  bernard dot farrell at gmail com

Bernard


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