In part 2 of this series, we buy ourselves some peace of mind with a simple smoke test. The code for this episode can be found here: https://github.com/avdi/pulse-ffi/tree/RubyTapas047
Tag: systems
Episode #040: Gradual Stiffening
In today's episode we'll try to come to grips with a slippery quality---a quality which is of importance to differentiating code that is easy to evolve, from code that isn't. …
Episode #029: Redirecting Output
This episode takes a look at two different methods for redirecting standard out and standard error - one simple and quick, one more comprehensive.
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 #023: Tempfile
In this episode we look at the Tempfile standard library, and how it can facilitate communicating with subprocesses.