Date: Sat, 30 Aug 2008 19:29:25 +0200 From: "Redd Vinylene" <reddvinylene@gmail.com> To: "Stanislav Sedov" <stas@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-ruby@freebsd.org Subject: Re: What's the coolest thing you do in Ruby? Message-ID: <f1019d520808301029g6dcbdde8j97eaff5080be73f6@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20080827033716.ab96b0f7.stas@FreeBSD.org> References: <f1019d520808260209r7b5af962h1b2fd62b4b159332@mail.gmail.com> <20080827033716.ab96b0f7.stas@FreeBSD.org>
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On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 1:37 AM, Stanislav Sedov <stas@freebsd.org> wrote: > On Tue, 26 Aug 2008 11:09:36 +0200 > "Redd Vinylene" <reddvinylene@gmail.com> mentioned: > >> Hello hello! >> >> I was sorta shocked when I found out this mailinglist even existed. >> Being a newcomer to Ruby, though, extremely passionate about it, I'd >> like to ask you all this question: >> >> What's the coolest thing you do in Ruby? >> >> As for me, I envision myself to one day, after having achieved >> complete mastery, to make some CLI suite of scripts to do the same >> thing http://www.native-instruments.com, http://www.digidesign.com, >> various VST effects/instruments and other interesting audio signal >> processors. I envision myself creating an "army" of (fully legit) >> moneymaking scripts, as part of my quest to becoming a wealthy and >> successful IT entrepreneur. >> >> So how about you guys? >> > > Seems that you have a nice working plan:-) AFAIK, there're no > good quality open VST software our there, so you project should > have a great success. I also think Ruby is a very good platform > for this as it allows a great level of abstraction and iterative > way of building software. > > As for me, I haven't done anything great in ruby yet. My biggest > project in ruby is the distributed task system, that we use for > our projects. It allows to submit jobs and track the status of > job in realtime, while the working processes (workers) could > attach to the bus and take tasks for execution. However, there > seems to be memory leaks in the system somewhere, which I'm still > trying to get rid of. So I may admit ruby isn't still quite > ready for 24x7 mode projects, or I can't write in ruby well:-) > > Good luck with you projects! You can always ask for a help here. > > -- > Stanislav Sedov > ST4096-RIPE > Good luck to you too man! :-) -- http://www.home.no/reddvinylene
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