OOPSLA/RubyConf wrapup

Published 2005-10-25 @ 19:41

(Notes from the plane home from OOPSLA/RubyConf)

1) Irons in the fire:

• Dave Simmons of SmallScript fame wants to work on our system to produce ST80 bytecode from ruby.
• A number of people want to improve RI, hacks, and PT, esp for windows. This will help us get more people using them.
• John Lam is interested for his ruby/CLR bridge.
• A number of people wanted to look at ruby2ruby to do refactoring tools.
• Don Roberts/John Brandt are extending their current refactoring toolset to generate entire tool suites for other languages. We should bug them for ruby in a month or so.
• Made some good business contacts. Mainly consultants like Russ (bay area pattern’s group

2) Potential new projects/demos:

• irb state saver (done, in 8 lines)
• r2yarv / r2st80 bytecode translator
• stock market toys/tools
• good demo on how to write refactoring tools for ruby
• fucking get over it and write a ruby parser/lexer, warts and all
• rubyholic website
• code coverage tool
• rule based tracing
• release zero2rails
• pure ruby PNG (maybe translatable to C)
• BFTS - new name of rubicon fork