Explorations of specific application domains, such as UNIX systems programming, or e-commerce.
Category: Applications
Episode #054: FFI Part 4: Test of the Mainloop
Beginning on the implementation of a Ruby PulseAudio API.
Episode #051: FFI Part 3: A New Library
FFI IT, WE'LL DO IT LIVE!
Episode #046: Gem Love Part 2
In Part 2 of this series chronicling the creation of an app, I establish a test-driven rhythm, starting with a high-level acceptance test. The source code for this episode is …
Episode #039: Gem Love Part 1
In this, the first of another ongoing occasional series, I revisit an open-source application I started three years ago and begin to rewrite it. Part 1 focuses on building a …
Episode #026: FFI Part 1: Proof of the Concept
With the FFI Gem, building wrappers for C libraries is easier than ever. This episode gives a brief overview of building the beginnings of a Ruby interface to the Linux …
Episode #010: Finding $HOME
How to reliably discover a user's home directory.