Ruby - Behind the Scenes

Ruby - Behind the scenesA whirlwind tour of Ruby projects, off the Rails

Kenneth KalmerCTO - Internet Exchangeopensourcery.co.za@kennethkalmergithub.com/kennethkalmer

There is more to Ruby thanRailsand there is nothing wrong with Rails, we’re justpretending it doesn’t exist for the next 25minutes...

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Brace yourselvesThis is going to be a quick overview of a bunchof Ruby projects, old and new, each with theirown merits and applicability, and each worth awhole presentation on their own, well,

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ruby-collectdSend collectd stats from astro/ruby-collectd [GH]your Ruby app collectd.orgGraph whatever data youwant

agentAttempt at GO-like igrigorik/agent [GH]concurrency in Ruby“Do not communicate bysharing memory; instead,share memory bycommunicating.”

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Hackety Hack!Teaching kids to programUses the shoes GUI toolkithackety-hack.comshoesrb.com

rufus-schedulerLike having cron jmettraux/rufus-schedulerembedded in your Ruby [GH]VMPowerful scheduling DSLGreat error handlingLeveraged by ruote &daemon-kit

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chefComplete server opscode.comdeployment &configuration managementWildly successfulTotal infrastructuremanagement/insightopscode/chef [GH]

ruby-pdnsUse Ruby to serve as a ripienaar/ruby-pdns [GH]backend to PowerDNSDifferent responses fordifferent countriesRandomize responses

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ruotePure Ruby workflow jmettraux/ruote [GH]engine ruote.rubyforge.orgDescriptively definebusiness processesExecute workflows reliablyon an international scale

Kids Ruby“Hack your homework” hybridgroup/kidsruby [GH]Hackety Hack inspired www.kidsruby.comHelping drive Ruby (via @JEG2)adoption

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HomebrewAwesome *nix package mxcl/homebrew [GH]management for OSXUses Ruby “formulae” todrive compilation/installation via a simpleDSL

NaniteSelf-assembling fabric of ezmobius/nanite [GH]Ruby daemonsScalable messagequeueing backendSelf discoveryDynamic load balancing

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SourcifyA solution to extract thecode of a Proc, allowingthe Proc to be serializedand passed aroundngty/sourcify [GH]

postgresql-plrubyPL/Ruby enablesPostgreSQL to leverageRuby for functions andtrigger proceduresknu/postgresql-plruby [GH]

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Haunted HouseClient for the ISY-99i home JEG2/haunted_house [GH]automation controller APIKeep the lights on, or off,with Ruby!

rtunnelCan’t use “ssh -R”, rtunnel coderrr/rtunnel [GH]can setup reverse tunnelsfor youLeverages net-ssh & thin

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blatherAwesome XMPP client sprsquish/blather [GH]library built on top ofEventMachine andNokogiriUsed by daemon-kit towrite simple XMPPdaemons

open4open child process with ahoward/open4 [GH]handles on pid, stdin,stdout, and stderrmanage child processesand their io handles easily.Useful for driving low-level*nix utils through Ruby

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RubygameCross-platform multimedia rubygame.orglibraryEntertainment softwareScientific visualizationsEducational/training toolsInteractive motion graphics

UPnP-MediaServerServe media files to your seattlerb.rubyforge.org/PS3 using Ruby UPnP-MediaServer/Work in progress

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parsletA small Ruby library for kschiess/parslet [GH]constructing parsers in thePEG (Parsing ExpressionGrammar) fashion.Good error reporting(unlike Treetop)No code generation, easierdebug

daemon-kitBuild reliable, stabledaemonized applicationswith RubyHelpers get you going fastkennethkalmer/daemon-kit[GH]

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Inspired?This is a taster, and by no means authoritative.Ruby is an awesome language, and a vibrantcommunity, and works just as well off the Railsthan on it.

What is your next projectgoing to be?

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