James Adam @james@ruby.social

I decided to create an account on ruby.social, so: hello all!

I had previous mastodon account but nothing really going on there, so I probably won't bother with a proper migration.

DragonRuby is sponsoring #jamcraft and is giving away free licenses to Game Toolkit. The hackathon starts in 5 days.

It's not an unhealthy "stay up all night" type of hackathon and you'll have almost two weeks to build your game. Please boost! http://jamcraft.dragonruby.org

#ruby #gamedev #jamcraft

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 ?