From: Dave Thomas <Dave@...>
Date: 2001-07-25T05:34:52+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:18462] Re: Ruby demos?

Emil Ong <onge@mcs.anl.gov> writes:

> I'm giving an introduction to Ruby at work tomorrow and I'm looking for
> some demos to give.  What can I show that will really impress
> people?  What I'd like to do is show something visual and then show the
> incredibly simple and clear code for it. :)  Are there any Ruby
> applications out there with real 'sex-appeal'?

Are they Java programmers? If so, I've got a distributed stock-ticker
demo using DRb and Observer that lets multiple clients watch for limit
values in a stock price. Not pretty visuals, but compared to the RMI
or CORBA equivalent it's staggeringly easy.


Dave