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Mountain West Ruby Conference

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I spent last week at the Mountain West Ruby Conference which is by far the best conference I’ve ever attended due to the brilliant minds that gather from all over the country. This year Yukihiro Matsumoto (Matz), the creator of ruby came from Japan to provide his aura to to adoring minions. I had the…

Mountain West Ruby Conference

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I’ve been to a good number of conferences over the years. A lot of them cost a lot of money. If you are a geek and a ruby lover (who isn’t?) then the best event you’ll ever attend is the Mountain West Ruby conference. The schedule is up. It’s only a hundred bucks and the…

Ruby Grand Masters

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I spent two years in Japan. While there I met all kinds of interesting people. I remember one individual in particular because he was a chess grand master. He was also very good at Shogi. In fact he had written Shogi the video game for Nintendo. I like chess and so we played a game….

More Ruby Conference

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We missed the first talk this morning (sorry Devlin we suck). I slept till 9:30, but mainly because we were up till 4am. Dave South gave me some great info on using TestSpec. RSpec seems to be the hot thing right now, but I like how TestSpec is lightweight: Install the gem: sudo gem install…

Mountain West Ruby Conference

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I’m at the Mountain West Ruby Conference for the next few days so I will be doing a bunch of blog posts that look like notes. Up right now: Strengthening the Ruby Ecosystem & Ezra Zygmuntowicz Evan Phoenix Evan is talking about Rubinius. Engine Yard pays him to work on the project full time. Even…

Using Amazon’s Web Services from Ruby – Jonathan Younger

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Right Scale has a great gem: gem install right_aws RightScale RightAws::Sqs RightScale RightAws::Ec2 They will automatically retry errors for you. gem install kato Kato – EC2 Pool Manager require ‘rubygems’ requrie ‘right_aws’ RightAws::RightAWSParser.xml_lib = ‘libxml’ SQS = RightAws::Sqs.new(access_id, access_key) #get an SQS object queue = SQS.queue(“name_of_queue”) #create a or get a reference to an existing…