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 and the Ruby ecosystems even more, managed development teams and taught lots of people how to be better in their…
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…
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…
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.…
rb_iterate replaced by rb_block_call API between Ruby 1.8 and 1.9
You may have noticed that some Ruby libraries using C extensions were suddenly having core dumps when compiled using Ruby 1.9, whereas compiling with Ruby 1.8 got no problems. A good culprit might be the…
Code surprise for today
A little code surprise today for all my beloved readers 🙂 You find out what it does 😉 Hint: executing it might help and is harmless Enjoy, with all my best wishes for this year!…
The Ruby C API – Basics
In my 2 previous posts, we saw how to write C extensions, and how to package them. Now time has come to see a little bit of the Ruby C API. This post will deal…
Packaging Ruby C extensions in nice gems
In the first part of this series on Ruby and C, we’ve seen how easy it is to write a C extension and use it in Ruby environment. However, in real world problems, a Ruby…