I’ve been using newgem to build Babelphish (translation helper thing). The docs from the ruby forge site are a bit out of date. If you use newgem to build anything be sure to look at this post from Dr Nic and pay attention to the options you can pass in. In particular I noticed that…
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Mountain West Ruby Conference
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
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
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…
Using Amazon’s Web Services from Ruby – Jonathan Younger
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…
Ruby fs-api
I am in the Ruby-fs API presentation now. Funding for the library came from USFamilyTree.com. It is REST based. Data model is: Person Person has many Assertions Assertion has one Contributor, Citation(not yet implemented), Note Each person has a lot of data associated with them so you don’t want to be parsing xml data on…
Review of Ozmozr code at Ruby Mountain West Conference
Jamis Buck blogged about the code review of Ozmozr he and Marcel did at the Mountain West Ruby Conference. The presentation was our favorite because of the insight it gave into our code and I think we came away as better programmers for it. Here is the link to the presentation on Conference Freaks and…