Yehuda Katz
jQuery, merb, datamapper
Daily Archives: September 6, 2008
How not to build a service
LMR
Who is your customer?
What are you building?
What do you know about your customer? how do you fit in their lives? Pricing? Marketing?
Build a good trial
target audience> trials > customer
Eating your own dogfood…
No integrated billing…
Ruby in the Computer Science Classroom
Tips and Tricks for Tweaking and Using Ruby and Rails for a Distributed Enterprise Application
speaker: Francis Sullivan
Spiceworks overview
updating remote installations
performance of ruby
avoiding deadlock
extensions for adding and modifying
scanner tweaks
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JQuery
A Year of Innovation
with Gregg Pollack and Jason Seifer
HPricot – good for scraping websites
doc = Hpricot(open(“”)
code.whytheluckystiff.net/hpricot/
redhanded.hobix.com/inspect/hpricot01.html
Juggernaut – lets you do server push with rails
Ambition
create SQL statements
errtheblog.com/posts/63-full-of-ambition
Prawn
– easy ruby based PDF generation
prawn.majesticseacreature.com/
www.rubyinside.com/prawn-ruby-pdf-library-987.html
wiki.rubyonrails.org/rails/pages/HowtoGeneratePDFs
Capistrano
Ruby VMs
roo – spreadsheets
can open google docs!
dtrace
skynet – map reduce for ruby
Data Fabric – easy chart data
blog.fiveruns.com/2008/7/9/introducing-data_fabric
merb
Mack Framework
Sinatra – easy quick way to build web application
Webby – generate static websites – rake task to
shoes – dsl for generating GUI applications
Hackety Hack – help kids learn programming
redmine –
Pool Party
RAD – Ruby Arduino Development – electronics (build robots)
Adhearsion – builds astrics – Voip
Rack
create a web frame work with only interfacing with Rack…
passenger
github
Starling – a light weight server for reliable distributed messageing
www.cmswire.com/cms/events/ruby-sunday-scaling-twitter-and-other-lessons-from-mr-cook-001221.php
www.slideshare.net/Blaine/scaling-twitter
www.justinball.com/2008/08/18/using-starling-workling-with-ruby-on-rails/
Ruby EventMachine
rubyforge.org/projects/eventmachine
Thin – fast, fast server..
Ebb
NeverBlock – really fast web server for Ruby…