From: Curt Hibbs <curt@...>
Date: 2001-11-16T06:28:07+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:25335] Re: Topic ideas for an upcoming series of articles featuring Ruby?

How do you get drb? the entry in RAA says "not available".

Curt

-----Original Message-----
From: Mikkel Bruun [mailto:mikkel.bruun@valtech.dk]
Sent: Thursday, November 15, 2001 1:18 PM
To: ruby-talk ML
Subject: [ruby-talk:25334] Re: Topic ideas for an upcoming series of
articles featuring Ruby?



One thing that still amazes me about ruby is the drb package....

distributed objects in four lines of code...just keep repeating those for
3-5 articles ;-)

seriously, distribution and or webservices in ruby, would be a killer!

could even include a wsdl generator for soap??

Mikkel
 

-----Original Message-----
From: Curt Hibbs
To: ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org
Sent: 15-11-2001 20:01
Subject: [ruby-talk:25299] Re: Topic ideas for an upcoming series of
articles featuring Ruby?

That's a good point. Could you tell us who the target audience is going
to
be.

Curt

-----Original Message-----
From: Vincent Foley [mailto:gnuvince@yahoo.ca]
Sent: Thursday, November 15, 2001 10:59 AM
To: ruby-talk ML
Subject: [ruby-talk:25298] Re: Topic ideas for an upcoming series of
articles featuring Ruby?


Depends who will most likely read these articles I guess.  If system
administrators are your target, then maybe an application to manage some
task could prove be could (like adding 100 users very fast. Of course
this can be done with a bash script, but I'm only making suggestions).

On Fri, Nov 16, 2001 at 03:19:19AM +0900, Colin Steele wrote:
>
> I've been asked to write a short series of articles (3-5ish) featuring
> Ruby.  The series will feature the development of an application in
> Ruby.  I have a few ideas for the application, but would love to hear
> what y'all think would be good topics.
>
> Bear in mind a few characteristics that an application well-suited to
> this purpose would possess:
>
> 1) Scope.  Application can be developed in the length of the
>    series. (3-5 articles of ~1200 words each.)
>
> 2) Ruby Character.  The application should highlight Ruby's strengths.
>
> 3) Utility.  The completed application should be of sufficient utility
>    or value that it might spur the reader to download and install Ruby
>    solely so that they can use this application.
>
> The ideal application for this series would possess all of these
> traits, but the first two are most important.
>
> So, what do you folks think?  What would you like to see this series
> focus on?
>
> --
> Colin Steele
> colin@colinsteele.org / www.colinsteele.org / www.rubycookbook.org
>
>
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>

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