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… How to read one non-blocking key press in Ruby
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… I ventured in Tamriel with The Elder Scrolls Online
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,… Rails cluster with Ruby load balancer using Docker
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… Install Ruby 1.9.3 on a shared hosting non root
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… Serialize Ruby objects: ruby-serial
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.… A quick message queue benchmark: ActiveMQ, RabbitMQ, HornetQ, QPID, Apollo…
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… Monitor your systems using Monit on shared hosts non-root – Example with Rails3/Capistrano
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… Deploy Rails 3 Unicorn applications using Capistrano on a shared web host non-root
Lately I tried to install a complete Rails 3 nginx unicorn web stack on a shared host without root privileges, in my user home directory. Ruby and Rails3 setup nginx setup Unicorn setup Unicorn setup… Installing Rails 3 nginx unicorn on a shared web host non-root
Lately, I received a TF300TG Asus Transformer Pad, shipping with a stock Asus JellyBean (Android 4.1.1) OS. It is awesome, reactive, playful, efficient, has 3G connectivity with a SIM card slot… but does not have… How to install custom ROM on Asus TF300TG Transformer Pad