Taming AI agents
Six months ago I thought I was simply going to learn a bit more about AI agents. Instead, I ended up diving head first into the ecosystem: trying frameworks, integrating them into real projects, contributing…
12 years later…
…after my last post. A lot has happened in my life: I changed my home country, worked in the travel, trading and renewable energies industries, played Skyrim and Fallout for days, contributed to Open Source…
How to read one non-blocking key press in Ruby
During the development of a simple command line game in Ruby, I wanted to check if the player has pressed a given key in a non-blocking and buffered way. That is: If no key was…
I ventured in Tamriel with The Elder Scrolls Online
I just got the chance to participate to last week-end Elder Scrolls Online Beta session. Woot! That was awesome to get back to Tamriel, and I enjoyed it both as a gamer and a developer/tester…
Rails cluster with Ruby load balancer using Docker
Lately I discovered Docker. I made a quick presentation on it for the rivierarb meetup of february 2014 (slides available). As an example of Docker’s usage, I decided to make something cool: a Rails cluster,…
Install Ruby 1.9.3 on a shared hosting non root
I’ve got through a bit of a hurdle to get Ruby 1.9.3 installed on my shared host. My host is PlanetHoster, but this walkthrough should work with any host giving you a decent development suite…
Serialize Ruby objects: ruby-serial
Many times I have come across the need to serialize a whole bunch of Ruby objects, with all their references. This is often useful to save the state of a program at one point, and…
A quick message queue benchmark: ActiveMQ, RabbitMQ, HornetQ, QPID, Apollo…
Lately I performed a message queue benchmark, comparing several queuing frameworks (RabbitMQ, ActiveMQ…). Those benchmarks are part of a complete study conducted by Adina Mihailescu, and everything was presented at the April 2013 riviera.rb meet-up.…
Monitor your systems using Monit on shared hosts non-root – Example with Rails3/Capistrano
Do you know Monit? You definitely should. This is a high-quality and mature Open Source project, very well documented, that can monitor all your system resources (global and process-based). It is lightweight, efficient, can take…
Deploy Rails 3 Unicorn applications using Capistrano on a shared web host non-root
In my struggle to have complete Rails3 environments setup in shared web hosts, the deployment step was missing. Lately I managed to deploy Rails3 Unicorn applications using Capistrano on a shared web host, as a…