Flirting With Models

While looking for some OpenGL bindings to Ruby today (as well as GSL and OpenCL), I rediscovered a little gem (pun intended) of a library called gosu. Gosu is a great library for game development in both C++ and Ruby, giving you access to windowing, image loading, and audio support. It also has great integration with the physics library Chipmunk.

Looking at examples like this online, you can easily see how quickly what should be a rather complex demo becomes rather … easy?

Orange: A great little blog entry about creating your own language using the grammar description gem TreeTop and llvmruby, a gem that gives you access to all that llvm goodness (JIT or compile to bytecode).

ArrayFields: Tired of indexing with numbers? Index your arrays in a better way.

Main: Quit re-writing your main program structure for all those flags and options. Use this gem to do the heavy lifting.

rq: rq is a great little gem for clustering Linux boxes via a job system running on an sqlite database on an NFS. Check out a nice little article on it here.