James Adam @james@ruby.social

Another game jam. Another opportunity to get a free license to DragonRuby Game Toolkit. Please boost: https://www.reddit.com/r/ruby/comments/fsr5s8/a_10day_long_hackathon_called_jamcraft_5_starts/

hello world ~ 😀

I'm not saying you need to panic buy anything, but now is the time to start getting _mentally_ prepared for some significant changes to daily life with COVID-19.

Start figuring out how you're going to handle any social distancing measures, and how you can work from home, if (when) general transmission gets going in your area.

Thinking about what you might need to do now will put you in a much better position to actually do it when the time comes.

#covid #covid19 #coronavirus

Hello fellow rubyists, I'm thrilled to be tooting with you.

How do you pronounce `sudo`?

In Ruby you can call a parent class’s method from another method in a child:

class Parent
def foo
1
end
end

class Child < Parent
def foo
2
end

def bar
Parent.instance_method(
:foo
).bind(self).call - foo
# == -1
end
end

For the new folks on Mastodon, here are the various ways you can discover new people on here to talk to!

https://bnolet.me/posts/2019/11/discovery-on-mastodon/

Please boost :)

Mike's one piece of advice for new Mastodon users - dive into that Federated column and follow ANYONE and EVERYONE who looks like they've posted anything at all interesting to you. Just hammer the button. There's no penalty for mistakes. Go wild.

Later, when your Home timeline is buzzing, go in and unfollow people you decide you're not enjoying so much now.

Then do that again a few times. Then some more. Forever.

Are there any #Ruby devs from Frankfurt/Darmstadt/Rhein-Main here?

Is there at least one other person interested in toots like https://twitter.com/ruby_frankfurt/status/1189621658350436355 from the local Ruby Meetup?

I've been building Flóðgátt, a replacement streaming API server for Mastodon. The goal is to cut RAM usage and make hosting an instance that much cheaper.

So far, we've cut RAM for the streaming server of an empty instance by ~94.2%

The next task is to make sure that lower RAM usage can scale without other issues (e.g., CPU).

To do that, I need a test server with enough connections to see how Flóðgátt performs under load.

That's where y'all come in: can you please follow @codesections ?

#CodeSession in #ruby
→ How to do a constant really 'private'

transcript: https://gist.github.com/esparta/cbe6288c4a2c34d99c504095db17110e

stack: #vim #tmux

As usual, your feedback will be appreciated

P.S. The inspiration for this screencasrt came from this toot by @james: https://ruby.social/@james/102411673461319965

Heck yea! I finally was able to give #rubykaigi approval to post my talk from the conference. Here's the first half of it!!! https://youtu.be/o0d4sjcUfCg

(second half coming soon) please pretty please boost

#ruby #gamedev #nintendo #rubykaigi

#introduction / #introductions

Hello! I'm a #programmer by trade, and a serial hobbyist. I use #rubyonrails in my side project. I would call it a business, but I've yet to be paid for it. I'm interested in prototyping ideas, and in learning #ruby best practices!

Some of my serial hobbies include singing, playing drums and guitar, drone racing, rock climbing, knitting, dancing at weddings, running, and visiting breweries!