A
Alasdair Bell
So, anyone working on something awesome?
Brag here...
Brag here...
K
Kyrre Nygård
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You want ideas?
----- Original Message -----
From: Alasdair Bell <[email protected]>
Date: Thursday, July 31, 2008 1:11 pm
Subject: Cool Projects
To: (e-mail address removed) (ruby-talk ML)
You want ideas?
----- Original Message -----
From: Alasdair Bell <[email protected]>
Date: Thursday, July 31, 2008 1:11 pm
Subject: Cool Projects
To: (e-mail address removed) (ruby-talk ML)
S
Shadowfirebird
I think perhaps "awesome" is in the eye of the beholder.
My current learning-ruby project is to write a MUSH from the ground
up. I think this is astonishingly awesome (me? A whole MUSH?). I
doubt anyone else would.
My current learning-ruby project is to write a MUSH from the ground
up. I think this is astonishingly awesome (me? A whole MUSH?). I
doubt anyone else would.
You want ideas?
----- Original Message -----
From: Alasdair Bell <[email protected]>
Date: Thursday, July 31, 2008 1:11 pm
Subject: Cool Projects
To: (e-mail address removed) (ruby-talk ML)
--=20
Me, I imagine places that I have never seen / The colored lights in
fountains, blue and green / And I imagine places that I will never go
/ Behind these clouds that hang here dark and low
But it's there when I'm holding you / There when I'm sleeping too /
There when there's nothing left of me / Hanging out behind the
burned-out factories / Out of reach but leading me / Into the
beautiful sea
U
Uwe Kubosch
Working on a system with administration using Rails, central operations
like dispatching with a Java + SWT thick client, and distributed
operations using an in-vehicle computer running JRuby + SWT thick
client. Communication using ActiveMessaging and ActiveMQ with yaml
payload over WAN.
Life is good
Uwe
J
Jason Roelofs
Working on a system with administration using Rails, central operations
like dispatching with a Java + SWT thick client, and distributed
operations using an in-vehicle computer running JRuby + SWT thick
client. Communication using ActiveMessaging and ActiveMQ with yaml
payload over WAN.
Life is good
Uwe
Since you ask
http://rbplusplus.rubyforge.org
Though what Uwe's doing, wow.
Jason
D
David Masover
At my day job, I'm working on a Rails app which powers... Actually, I can't
talk about that yet. Oh well.
By night, I've been occasionally working on a lightweight Actor
implementation, which isn't really ready for release yet. It's my solution to
not being able to choose between Erlang's concurrency and Ruby's awesome
syntax. On the weekend, I'll likely rewrite it from scratch -- again.
...Would it make sense to add a #threadsafe? method to Object?
talk about that yet. Oh well.
By night, I've been occasionally working on a lightweight Actor
implementation, which isn't really ready for release yet. It's my solution to
not being able to choose between Erlang's concurrency and Ruby's awesome
syntax. On the weekend, I'll likely rewrite it from scratch -- again.
...Would it make sense to add a #threadsafe? method to Object?
M
Mark Firestone
I'm still working on the Ruby BBS. Sometimes I even have it working.
I've almost got the full screen editor that Dossy prototyped for me
working... but I haven't had time to finish it because all my certs
have to be reupped...
I've almost got the full screen editor that Dossy prototyped for me
working... but I haven't had time to finish it because all my certs
have to be reupped...
I think perhaps "awesome" is in the eye of the beholder.
My current learning-ruby project is to write a MUSH from the ground
up. I think this is astonishingly awesome (me? A whole MUSH?). I
doubt anyone else would.
You want ideas?
----- Original Message -----
From: Alasdair Bell <[email protected]>
Date: Thursday, July 31, 2008 1:11 pm
Subject: Cool Projects
To: (e-mail address removed) (ruby-talk ML)
--
Me, I imagine places that I have never seen / The colored lights in
fountains, blue and green / And I imagine places that I will never go
/ Behind these clouds that hang here dark and low
But it's there when I'm holding you / There when I'm sleeping too /
There when there's nothing left of me / Hanging out behind the
burned-out factories / Out of reach but leading me / Into the
beautiful sea
--=20
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J
James Britt
Alasdair said:
Monkeybars
The fastest, cleanest, most fun way to build robust, sophisticated,
cross-platform desktop applications.
http://www.monkeybars.org
--
James Britt
www.happycamperstudios.com - Wicked Cool Coding
www.jamesbritt.com - Playing with Better Toys
www.ruby-doc.org - Ruby Help & Documentation
www.rubystuff.com - The Ruby Store for Ruby Stuff
M
Michael Neumann
Alasdair said:
RubyJS? A Ruby to Javascript compiler.
P
Pablo Q.
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rb++, I didn't know that this cool stuff exist! Thanks
rb++, I didn't know that this cool stuff exist! Thanks
T
Todd Benson
Pet projects:
- IT knowledge base and ticketing system. It's been done before, but
I'm doing it a little different. No offense to loyalists, but I'm
trying to avoid Rails and ActiveRecord
- GPS realtime mapping with console/visual for boating using
S57/ISO8211 based charts from NOAA (realtime doesn't have to be "real"
realtime, but it's an option with C extensions); probably using Shoes
- Ruby interfacing with a foodnetwork style database for personal
recipe use, but possibly for restaurateurs someday with inventory and
orders (I know, that almost sounds like severely high hopes)
These sit, unfortunately, at the wayside for the time being. I've
built the database schema for each of these set ups, but I haven't
fully tackled the Ruby interfaces yet.
Awesome? I'm not so sure, but it is fun!
Todd
G
Gregory Brown
Currently working on Prawn, a PDF generation library designed to kill
PDF::Writer.
http://github.com/sandal/prawn
It's fast, has support for m17n, runs on Ruby 1.9, and looks pretty.
We're hoping to keep it tiny and nimble, just like the majestic sea creature.
The first alpha gem release will be tomorrow sometime (0.1.0), so I'd
love to see some people clone the repos and kick the tires tonight.
Copious examples are provided to demonstrate features, and the API
documentation is decent in most places.
-greg
E
Ezra Zygmuntowicz
I'm working on a project called Vertebra. This is a p2p XMPP based
cloud computing framework. it's built with erlang and ruby. You can
see some slides about it here from a talk I gave yesterday:
http://www.slideshare.net/ezmobius/vertebra-535789
Cheers-
-Ezra
engineyard.com
D
Damjan Rems
Gregory said:
Do you have any plans to support non English characters in PDF
documents. Than I am interested.
by
TheR
G
Gregory Brown
We already support embedding unicode aware TTF fonts and can render
UTF-8 on Ruby 1.8, and anything that can be converted to UTF-8 on Ruby
1.9
You don't need to do anything special to get it to work, all strings
rendered by Prawn will be treated this way.
-greg
A
Aaron Turner
Since you asked, I'm working on Cabernet- a RoR powered personal wine
cellar management system. I haven't decided if I'm just going to
release it open source or try to come up with a hosted solution which
breaks even. I'd rather just release the code, but I suspect
installing a RoR/MySQL application is too much for my target market.
You can check out the demo here:
http://cabernetdemo.synfin.net/
And there's also a Trac instance for it here:
http://cabernet.synfin.net/trac/
I also occasionally look into the various Ruby widget toolkits to see
about building a GUI for tcpreplay.
--
Aaron Turner
http://synfin.net/
http://tcpreplay.synfin.net/ - Pcap editing and replay tools for Unix & Windows
They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. -- Benjamin Franklin
cellar management system. I haven't decided if I'm just going to
release it open source or try to come up with a hosted solution which
breaks even. I'd rather just release the code, but I suspect
installing a RoR/MySQL application is too much for my target market.
You can check out the demo here:
http://cabernetdemo.synfin.net/
And there's also a Trac instance for it here:
http://cabernet.synfin.net/trac/
I also occasionally look into the various Ruby widget toolkits to see
about building a GUI for tcpreplay.
--
Aaron Turner
http://synfin.net/
http://tcpreplay.synfin.net/ - Pcap editing and replay tools for Unix & Windows
They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. -- Benjamin Franklin
E
Eleanor McHugh
I'm slowly porting SQLite to pure Ruby, although like most of my
projects I'll probably never finish it
Ellie
Eleanor McHugh
Games With Brains
http://slides.games-with-brains.net
J
James Gray
That's a really neat idea. I thought about doing just Lemon in the =20
past.
James Edward Gray II=
E
Eleanor McHugh
I'm hoping to substantially reduce the code count whilst still keeping =20=
reasonable performance, but as with any port from C to Ruby there's a =20=
hell of a lot of memory management and indirection to wade through =20
making it hard to predict the actual gains and losses. There are also =20=
some aspects of the underlying design that don't fit too well with the =20=
Ruby way of doing things so it'll be less of a port and more of a =20
cross-language fork by the time I finish.
Anyway I spent most of last month working on it and have all the main =20=
structural areas coming together nicely. With another couple of months =20=
it might even be fit for a public alpha...
Ellie
Eleanor McHugh
Games With Brains
http://slides.games-with-brains.net
S
Ståle Z.H
I'm currently working on:
- building a small set of network utility classes (nothing big, it's
just for fun/experimentation)
- a Ruby/GTK application that downloads videos from youtube
- a simple CMS in Rails
I probably won't finish most of this, but it's fun to work with
nevertheless. \o/