I will give a talk about localisation (localization, l10n) and internationalisation (internationalization, i18n) in Ruby on Rails applications on the Ostrava on Rails conference on 23. June in Ostrava, Czech republic. I am looking forward to meet you there :) Slides and examples will be available here after the conference, probably on Sunday. Budem mať prednášku [...]

With a great pleasure I read about a Ruby On Rails conference in Ostrava, Czech Republic on 22 - 23 June. Time permitted, I would like to be there. Well, at last something is happening, although we still do not have meetings of Ruby on Rails fans in every bigger city :) S potešením som [...]

There can be a problem with the DRb system in Ruby on Gentoo and the IPv6 support. If an application with DRb does not work and its error message is: TEXT [Show Styled Code]: Exception `SocketError' at /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/drb/drb.rb:840 - getnameinfo: ai_family not supported /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/drb/drb.rb:840:in `getaddrinfo': getnameinfo: ai_family not supported (SocketError) TEXT [Show Plain Code]: Exception `SocketError’ at /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/drb/drb.rb:840 - [...]

I am creating a prototype of a distributed application written in Ruby. Ruby 1.8 already contains the DRb framework, as a system for a communication of different Ruby processes, and the Rinda system too, as a naming service. Here are some useful links: Distributed Ruby Hugh Sasse’s dRuby page DRb and Rinda for Distributed Computation Prototyping Lucas Carlson’s blog and [...]