Rubyology

Chris Matthieu interviews one of Ruby's thought leaders, Avi Bryant. You may know him from Maglev or DabbleDB. Avi's good at pulling rabbits out of hats. I hope that you enjoy this podcast. For more information on Maglev visit http://maglev.gemstone.com or DabbleDB at http://dabbledb.com.

Welcome back code monkeys! This week's cast covers Journeta (http://rubyforge.org/projects/journeta). Journeta is a zero-configuration-required, peer-to-peer (P2P) discovery and communications library for Ruby applications on closed networks, by OpenRain, LLC (http://OpenRain.com). This Ruby gem was written by and presented to the Phoenix Ruby user group (http://rubyaz.org) by Preston Lee, Founder and President of OpenRain (http://www.prestonlee.com/archives/336)

Chris Matthieu interviewed Jay Phillips, the founder of the Adhearsion project. Adhearsion is an open source framework that, in simplest terms, improves the way the world writes "voice" applications. It rests above a popular open-source platform called Asterisk, abstracting its many pain points and domain complexity. This framework turns Ruby developers into telecom engineers. Jay's blog is http://jicksta.com/ and his project can be found at http://adhearsion.pbwiki.com/ or http://github.com/jicksta/adhearsion/tree/master We also covered VoIP, SIP, IAX, and Erlang! Hope you enjoy the interview!

Marc Chung from OpenRain.com demos Ruby2Ruby at the Phoenix Ruby User Group (http://rubyaz.org/). Ruby2ruby provides a means of generating pure ruby code easily from ParseTree‘s Sexps. This makes making dynamic language processors much easier in ruby than ever before. Marc also covers javascript firebug tricks and beanstalk message queue handling in his demonstration.

Here is the finale of the interview with Dave Fayram (aka kirindave) and Tom Preston Werner (aka mojombo) from Powerset. I think that you will enjoy it.

This is the first of a two-part interview with Dave Fayram (aka kirindave) and Tom Preston Werner (aka mojombo) from Powerset. These Ruby, Rails, and Erlang rockstars are the developers of fuzed, an Erlang-based frontend cluster for web apps, and maintainers of Erlectricity which exposes Ruby to Erlang and vice versa (among other amazing technologies). Both of these innovative developers work for Powerset, a natural language search engine for the Internet.

Chris Matthieu and Steven Bristol interview Gregg Pollack & Jason Seifer from RailsEnvy.com. This is a must hear behind the scenes show with some content but mostly humor. I tried to edit 8 VoIP recordings together to create something that was somewhat cohesive. Gregg and Jason are smart, funny, and quick guys - but many of the jokes had to be deleted. We appreciate their good humor and candidness. Check out http://railsenvy.com for current rails news.

Chris Matthieu and Steven Bristol interviewed Ezra Zygmuntowicz, the co-founder of Engine Yard! This 1 hour and 20 minute interview goes deep inside Ezra's mind. We covered his early programming days where he almost selected Python instead of Ruby but then came to his senses. We also discussed the early days of Engine Yard as well as the present infrastructure and the totally awesome new projects including: MERB, Rubinius, and Vertebra. Ezra is a really cool thought-leader in the Ruby/Rails community. Engine Yard is an incredibly innovative, business-class Rails hosting service with the ability to scale. My apologies in advance for some of the VoIP R2D2 experienced during this recording. The content is well worth it!

Attention code monkeys: We've been hacked and there's no turning back. Steven Bristol from LessEverything.com has joined Chris Matthieu as co-host of the Rubyology Show. It's only appropriate that we interview the new monkey master before allowing him to interview others. In this episode we cover LessEverything's products and services, RailsConf 2008 favs, and dive deep on Rails 2.1, Mod Apache, and other surprises. Show links include: http://www.luclatulippe.com/ http://ruby.gemstone.com/ http://b.lesseverything.com/2008/6/9/converting-tzinfo-from-rails-2-0-to-2-1 Let us know what you think at: chris [at] rubyology.com (chrismatthieu on twitter) steve [at] lesseverything.com (stevenbristol on twitter)

I was lucky enough to attend this year's RailsConf 2008 and met many new friends and listened to many cool new ideas and discussions. Here is a link to the Vertebra solution presented by EngineYard's Ezra - http://brainspl.at/articles/2008/06/02/introducing-vertebra

Jay McGavren, Phoenix Ruby Programmer Extraordinaire and all around good guy, has developed a super cool game library in Ruby called Zyps. This screencast demonstrates the following: * set up an Environment * place Creatures in the Environment * create Behaviors and add them to Creatures * create Actions for Behaviors to initiate * limit when Behaviors occur with Conditions * add EnvironmentalFactors such as wind "sudo gem install zyps" to install, or visit: http://jay.mcgavren.com/zyps By jaymcgavren If you run into problems viewing this screencast, you can access an MP4 version at http://rubyology.com/mp3s/zyps_screencast.mp4

Hey code monkeys! I built a proof-of-concept site for a RESTful service registry that is actually a RESTful API API. It's called www.ServiceReg.com and the site (which also functions as an API) allows developers to register RESTful Web services that can be used as a simple URL (including the POST, PUT, and DELETE verb-based queries). These simple URLs can be used in application, mashups, or even directly from the browser's address bar.

Hey code monkeys! Marc Chung from OpenRain.com gave a funtabulous presentation at this week's AZ on Rails user group meeting on deploying rails applications on Amazon's EC2 (Elastic Computing Cloud) and also demonstrated chaining tasks together in the cloud to work on a common goal (like calculating pi) using MPI (Message Passing Interface Standard). This is a MUST hear discussion. Thanks to Derek Neighbors for putting together show notes and thanks to Marc for sharing his experience with all of us :) http://derekneighbors.com/2008/2/20/phoenix-rails-february

Welcome back! Today we cover upcoming conference updates. Ruby 1.9 update. Heroku introduction. Wuby vs. Thin - Wuby Wins! Enterprise SOA discussion REST vs. SOAP - REST Wins! Interview with Theo Beack, Deputy CTO BEA - Ruby involved in their virtualization container strategies - more to come. Great Amazon service and twitter links below: http://www.google.com/gwt/n?u=http%3A%2F%2Fdeveloper.amazonwebservices.com%2Fconnect%2Fentry.jspa%3FexternalID%3D1182%26ref%3Dfeatured http://www.google.com/gwt/n?u=http%3A%2F%2Fdominiek.com%2Farticles%2F2008%2F2%2F15%2Fhow-to-build-a-twitter-agent My post on posting twitter tweets with 10 lines of Ruby code: http://blog.kineticweb.com/articles/2008/02/16/capistrano-twitter-task-take-2

Check out my presentation at the Phoenix Rails User Group meeting on S5 and P8. Both are interesting technologies for presentations.