2009
DjangoCon wrapup at Spindrop
If Twisted Matrix was implemented in Ruby it would be advertised as the second coming of Christ.
toolmantim's bananajour at master - GitHub
Local git repository hosting with a sexy web interface and bonjour discovery. It's like your own little adhoc, network-aware github!
Distributed github in a way.
2008
Revactor
by 2 othersRevactor is an application framework for Ruby which uses the Actor model to simplify the creation of high-performance network services.
Writing concurrent systems is one of the most difficult problems facing programmers today. Working with threads is difficult, and asynchronous approaches are confusing and difficult to work with.
Erlang-like for Ruby, nice.
skynet, open source map/reduce in Ruby
by 1 otherSkynet is an open source Ruby implementation of Google’s Map/Reduce framework, created at Geni.com. With Skynet, one can easily convert a time-consuming serial task, such as a computationally expensive Rails migration, into a distributed program running on many computers.
Piston ~ Easy Vendor Branch Management
by 1 other (via)Piston is a utility that eases vendor branch management. This is similar to svn:externals, except you have a local copy of the files, which you can modify at will.
2007
anthonyeden.com ActiveWarehouse Example with Rails SVN Logs
1 commentThis article covers how to build a simple ActiveWarehouse data warehouse using the Subversion logs from the Rails project.
Time to forget about data normalization
scie.nti.st » 1 Minute Post: AIM Bot in Ruby
require 'net/toc' # "aimbot99" needs to be a real AIM username, get one at aim.aol.com Net::TOC.new("aimbot99", "mypass") do |msg, buddy| buddy.send_im("You said: #{msg}") end
too easy
Document-based Ruby Database
by 1 otherRDDB is a Ruby Document-oriented Database. It is inspired by CouchDB
could be a good API to CouchDB as well
7 reasons I switched back to PHP after 2 years on Rails - O'Reilly Ruby
by 1 otherPROGRAMMING LANGUAGES ARE LIKE GIRLFRIENDS: THE NEW ONE IS BETTER BECAUSE *YOU* ARE BETTER
The troll Ruby vs PHP isn't worth it, but this sentence make sense (to me). Give you some credit.
Allegra » Blog Archive » About JRuby and CPython performances
JRuby’s applications need as much code as their CPython equivalent, but they are consistently slower and fatter.
more graph to troll about.
Jabber::Bot :: Crisis Averted!
Jabber::Bot makes it simple to create and command your own Jabber bot with little fuss. By adding custom commands powered by regular expressions to your bot's repertoire, you and your new bot will be able to accomplish nearly anything.
a simple and extensible Jabber bot in Ruby