Videos tagged with Ruby Hoedown 2008

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...

Stress testing is a form of testing that is used to determine the stability of a given system or entity. It involves testing beyond normal operational capacity, often to a breaking point, in order to observe the results. Stress testing may have a more specific meaning in certain industries. Author: Jesse Schoch

Obie Fernandez will leverage his experience successfully selling consulting services for both Thoughtworks and Hashrocket to help you with the following questions: How do I figure out how to price my services? How do I figure out the kind of work I want to sell? How do I write contracts and statements of work? What about proposals? And RFPs? How do I close the deal? Author: Obie Fernandez

Contents: Ruby can be used in the "enterprise". While I don't want to use Rhino or Hibernate, we can learn a lot from Java's experiences. Whereas Ralis embraces convention whole-heartedly, Merb has good defaults set on a highly configurable backend. Author: Yehuda Katz

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

Contents: Test all the fucking time! Become obsessed with testing. I write code to make my specs turn green. Various tools: TestSpec Shoulda Mspec Cucumber Do not imitate the old masters, seek what they sought. Is there every a time when you shouldn't test? Yes, when you're not coding. If it works without tests, it works by accident. Author: Brian Liles

Contents: Web interface for God system monitoring tool Author: PJ Davis

A Ruby community leader, David A. Black is a director of Ruby Central, the parent organization of the annual International Ruby Conference (RubyConf) and the International Rails Conference (RailsConf). He's the author of Ruby for Rails and Rails Routing and is currently authoring a new Ruby book with Manning. He lives in New Jersey and works as a consultant for Ruby Power and Light. Author: Dav...

MIDI is a data protocol for music. Archaeopteryx generates MIDI via Ruby to drive prosumer studio music software. It can generate hyperkinetic DJ mixes, infinite streams of ambient music for meditation, and original drum and bass rhythms. Archaeopteryx is a new project undergoing development. Archaeopteryx uses procs extensively, and benefits from an approach to Ruby informed by Lisp and higher...