On Tue, 27 Nov 2007 00:09:41 -0500, Giles B. wrote:
Wow, that’s a supercool time sink. Just for the hell of it, though,
doesn’t every RubyForge project have a short description string? Why
not just build that into the RSS feed?
If they were all as well-writen and up-to-date as the rest of the
articles,
then yes, they’d be worth it. It often seems a place to quickly mention
wher you got toe ideas from, so as not to stoke anger over forking or
crediting…
Let’s look at a few.
RSpec, which I know and love, and which most here know at least enough
to
hate, says:
| RSpec is a Behaviour Driven Development framework for Ruby. It implements
| concepts described in Dave Astel’s first BDD article:
| http://tinyurl.com/yl8mzu
So to someone not following along the BDD-TDD spectrum drama, this say
“RSpec has ported BDD to Ruby, based in the same ideas from this guy’s
first book.” Woo! In marketing, now that’s what we call a “call to
action” - in the undergrad classes.
And that’s a MODEL project. Digging Deeper:
AngelMap 1.04 - lots of new features
Nov 26, 2007
|There are lots of new features in this release of AngelMap. - The map
| itself automatically sizes with the browser window - Lots of new
| filters to let you tailor the missions that are shown. You can
| specify things like maximum weight, distance or passengers. You
| can choose to hide multi-leg missions, and lots more. - New
| ability to search for missions where both the departure AND
| destination airports are within a given distance of your home airport.
|
| http://rubyforge.org/forum/forum.php?forum_id=19323
OK, so it’s some type of graphical map overlay thing with various
airports
and teams organizing missions. The strat of a wargame? Training for a
logistics solution? we don’t now. THeir main page summary, from a
different rubyforge page, says
| AngelMap is a Rails application that gets a feed of available Angel
| Flight missions and shows them on a Google Map. You can filter the
| list of missions by a distance or time window. See it running at
| http://angelmap.pfactor.com
OK, that’s… well, it slightly reduces the number of wild mental
stories
the reader might have otherwise had, but other than that, it doesn’t
tell
me anything about why I might want to use this in my own project and
what
else it could be used for, if I didn’t know what Angel Flight was.
There’s
no magic "In the process of designing a live feed handler for Angel
Flight,
a game popular in Luxembourg, we created a state-driven, high-performing
action handler that can carry out actions as a linear function of the
number of inputs… thus showing uses in blah blha blha.’
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projects
there!