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Re: A cache-busting http server script in ruby

copiousfreetime — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 13:49:33 -0000

There is always heel : http://rubygems.org/gems/heel
disclaimer, I wrote it.

Re: Hitimes are upon us

copiousfreetime — Sat, 23 Apr 2011 15:46:03 -0000

Sure, I think that could be arranged. Feel free to add more here https://github.com/copiousf...

Re: History repeating

copiousfreetime — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 12:19:10 -0000

Personally, I always like to peruse the man pages on my systems. There is a lot of great information in there.

I learned a tremendous amount from "Advanced Programming in the UNIX Environment" by W. Richard Stevens. His "Unix Network Programming" Volumes are good too.

I just learned of "Coders at Work" by Peter Seibel and I think I'll be getting a copy. There are a few more I'm sure were influential, beyond what you already have posted. I'll check my bookshelf and look for the rattiest covers :-).

Re: Packaging an Application With Crate

copiousfreetime — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 01:02:20 -0000

Yes, something along those lines would be very cool, and crate will probably be able to help with that down the road a little bit. I have some basic restructing to do still, make it work with 1.9 and a few other core pieces. So stay tuned :-).

Re: Packaging an Application With Crate

copiousfreetime — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 00:50:50 -0000

I think it would be feasible to package GUI apps w/ crate. I just have not tried it yet. Currently, I think to package standalone, ruby based, GUI apps is probably better done w/ Shoes. I could definitely see using Crate to do GUI apps at some point.

As for building in compression, I do have that already built in for the pure ruby code. When it packages the .rb files into the sqlite database, it will use zlib to compress the files before storing them.

Thanks for the comments!

Re: Packaging an Application With Crate

copiousfreetime — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 00:46:21 -0000

I'm not sure, I haven't been thinking along the lines of merging FFI items into Crate. It could be an option down the road a ways. What are you thinking?

Re: Managing a Gem Repository with Stickler

copiousfreetime — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 12:16:29 -0000

Currently the easiest way to add a gem for stickler to redistribute is to have an upstream repository. That may sound tedious, but every installed gem system can be an upstream repository by just typing 'gem server' and the gems installed on that machine will be served up as a gem repository. You can also use 'gem server' with an arbitrary directory, look at the help for server subcommand.

Then, why that gem server is running you can use stickler to get a gem from it and incorporate it int its repo. I should have a more automation friendly way for this particular use case and I'll add it to the TODO.

Re: Building Binary Ruby Gems for Windows

copiousfreetime — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 01:45:12 -0000

Most folks that I know that are building binary gems for windows are using a similar approach to this. It works quite well for the one-click installer. But yes, the mingw ruby interpreter is where the RubyInstaller project (http://rubyinstaller.rubyfo... is headed and is the preferred method (as far as I know ) for running ruby on windows.

Re: Packaging an Application With Crate

copiousfreetime — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 01:38:16 -0000

Awesome Brian, great to hear it. Please let me know how I can help ( if you need it ). I'll be spending a good chunk of time on crate after Mountain West.

Re: Packaging an Application With Crate

copiousfreetime — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 22:12:36 -0000

I'm working on getting crate and rails to play nice. Stay tuned for the Scotland on Rails talk to see how things are going :-)

Re: Packaging an Application With Crate

copiousfreetime — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 01:51:24 -0000

Ah, I understand now. Right now crate does direct downloads, I could add in something that would use a proxy. I'll add it to my list. It should not be too difficult to add in.

In the meantime, you can download them by hand (each url is in the recipe) and store the file in build/[zlib|openssl|ruby|other]/. If the file is local, then crate does not attempt to re-download the file.

Re: Crate Goes to Scotland

copiousfreetime — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 01:45:28 -0000

Thanks Thom. Crate will be seeing a good bit of love over the next couple of months, so stay tuned.

Re: Packaging an Application With Crate

copiousfreetime — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 10:22:43 -0000

Grzesiek, if you want your crate application to make requests to something behind a proxy, you can use the ruby standard lib Net::HTTP. See http://www.ruby-doc.org/std.... Scroll down to 'Accessing via Proxy'

Currently when you package a crate application, it includes all of the stdlib so this should be available by default.

Re: Writing SQL Functions in Ruby

copiousfreetime — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 02:13:35 -0000

Thanks Jay. Feel free to let me know about your successes! And the problems too, I'm here to help.

Re: Packaging an Application With Crate

copiousfreetime — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 19:48:24 -0000

Thanks Thom,

Let me know how you are progressing, and let me know if I can be of any help.

Re: Packaging an Application With Crate

copiousfreetime — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 19:47:58 -0000

Crate and rubyscript2exe both attempt to make a self-contained executable package out of your ruby code. That's about where they stop being similar. rubyscript2exe currently only works for linux, mac and windows. It also does an unpackaging into a temporary location and then cleans it up when the program exits.

For my purposes, I didn't want to take the chance on a failure littering .rb files in a temp directory, and I wanted to have something that had the potential to run on anything that ruby will compile for.

I also like the idea of a statically compiled ruby :-)

Re: Managing a Gem Repository with Stickler

copiousfreetime — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 14:28:39 -0000

You can use "<=" also. Stickler uses the highline gem for prompts. The menu functionality in highline lets you type the number of your choice, or the content of the choice.

Re: http://drawohara.com/post/44387111

copiousfreetime — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 17:46:08 -0000

At least I am in good company.

Re: Amalgalite 0.1.0 Released

copiousfreetime — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 21:42:27 -0000

I'm not sure why it failed for you, it is working fine for me, although for a bit today it appeared a few people had issues downloading data from the gem repository. You can always download the gem or the .tgz or .zip by viewing the copiousfreetime projects' download page

http://rubyforge.org/frs/?g...

Re: Amalgalite 0.1.0 Released

copiousfreetime — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 14:29:47 -0000

Thanks, its fixed now.

Re: slight alteration to javascript to help it validate

copiousfreetime — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 03:18:46 -0000

okay that didn't show up correctly, lets try pre

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