From owner-freebsd-ruby@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Aug 30 17:29:27 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ruby@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 314BB1065689 for ; Sat, 30 Aug 2008 17:29:27 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from reddvinylene@gmail.com) Received: from fg-out-1718.google.com (fg-out-1718.google.com [72.14.220.153]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B3F3C8FC12 for ; Sat, 30 Aug 2008 17:29:26 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from reddvinylene@gmail.com) Received: by fg-out-1718.google.com with SMTP id l26so881885fgb.35 for ; Sat, 30 Aug 2008 10:29:25 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to :subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=uX2r/fpQjHnv+0k1qSN03/b3ZCwIXgABjv2ohgOd6AY=; b=mQ76Rlbm+juyLd8J9wWjCBar0oQFRW4cJXnBFsQ/q5Th+vPa9WaIci6Q8SxsArJYKf iA3ASPSXql9GsKew0WN38ftZlwZLS+WwvPt01U0nG2EePTDwnSzQbJzAb4iCWC9xmGK2 pCKfPPe2B84Xbh+Qq+C0kjxpY3sCkALv+Dr+o= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition :references; b=rOOS1pWO8n61OYUwiezV+G7Q+GtoAsU0xBq+c+mbASP5F0O6F3u4jBYFekWsVBL06l ejtHTfu9sjm+jl/ZFfSOz3mTrM+iw3HnWixpSbUFMDLyYHK/flnL4O1jHCEjDJqYggaH r1cnYoc6QNcNAok+CD4OFhOdIhSq4ZPFq8pys= Received: by 10.187.221.20 with SMTP id y20mr1773315faq.107.1220117365343; Sat, 30 Aug 2008 10:29:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.187.205.5 with HTTP; Sat, 30 Aug 2008 10:29:25 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Sat, 30 Aug 2008 19:29:25 +0200 From: "Redd Vinylene" To: "Stanislav Sedov" In-Reply-To: <20080827033716.ab96b0f7.stas@FreeBSD.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <20080827033716.ab96b0f7.stas@FreeBSD.org> Cc: freebsd-ruby@freebsd.org Subject: Re: What's the coolest thing you do in Ruby? X-BeenThere: freebsd-ruby@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: FreeBSD-specific Ruby discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 30 Aug 2008 17:29:27 -0000 On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 1:37 AM, Stanislav Sedov wrote: > On Tue, 26 Aug 2008 11:09:36 +0200 > "Redd Vinylene" 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