Videos tagged with Gems

Seattle.rb Rocks would cover a number of side projects developed by Seattle.rb members in a lightning-talk-like format. Individual presentations would run for roughly ten minutes, and at least the following individual presentations would be given: Phil Hagelberg will talk about Bus Scheme, which is a Scheme implementation that is implemented (mostly) on the bus. Phil will explore what it's like...

The Ruby Mendicant project was at first meant as a joke. Who would be crazy enough to donate money to an individual developer to work on unspecified open source projects for 3-6 months without any explicit goals? As it turns out, 70 individual Rubyists, along with Ruby Central, Inc. and the MountainWest Ruby Conference were! Gregory will provide a brief overview of the Ruby Mendicant project, a...

Want to create a Ruby Gem instead of a Rails plugin? In this episode I will walk you through creating a gem to extend Rails.

This talk will cover some of of the lessons learned implementing the Spiceworks Application including: acts_as_modifiable – a Rails plugin that we built that allows you to override and extend class values on the fly gem updates – how we keep our rapidly changing application up to date across the world performance – discuss tweaks that range from custom caching and design impro...

What do you do when your entire business is run on a ruby infrastructure. You have a set of command line applications for data collection, another suite of daemons and command line processes for massaging that data, several Merb clusters for providing both internal and external data services, and Rails applications for internal business management and external customer usage. In this presentati...

In this talk I will dig up some of the lesser known, but super useful Ruby projects and show them to the masses. I’ll explain why you would use these each of libraries, explain key methods from the API, and show example code so the audience can see them in action. The goal is to raise overall familiarity with these libraries. Because I’ve selected four different libraries with very ...

Have you ever wanted to fill up a database with a lot of test data? See how to do that in this episode using the populator and faker gems.

Archaeopteryx is a MIDI system for Ruby based on code from Topher Cyll's book "Practical Ruby Projects." Archaeopteryx successfully generates original drum and bass rhythms, tours the circle of fifths and the circle of fourths, does extremely simplistic randomized pseudo-arpeggios, handles chord progressions of the I-IV-V and V-I varieties, synchs original rhythms to MP3 playback, and...

Kablame! is a rails plugin uses svn blame to determine how many lines of code were updated or added by each user in a project. KABLAME! currently compatible with SVN and Git. Someone on your team isn't pulling their weight? KABLAME! Like lists of largely meaningless numbers? KABLAME! Need to look good at a job review? KABLAME! Believe in productivity through social stigma? KABLAME! Need an excu...

Contents: "Truthy" gem package for Ruby. Helps to ease confusing true and false evaluations in Ruby. Usage: variable.truthy? Only nil and false are false in Ruby. Really. That's it. Stop looking. Author: Yosef Mendelssohn