The Blog: July 2010

We’re using Brightcove here at Agora Games for some video platform work. In our group chats, we’ve talked about, “It would be nice if we had a Ruby API for interacting with Brightcove.”

And so I did just that, http://github.com/agoragames/brightcove

sudo gem install brightcove-api

>> require 'brightcove-api'
=> true
>> brightcove = Brightcove::API.new('0Z2dtxTdJAxtbZ-d0U7Bhio2V1Rhr5Iafl5FFtDPY8E.')
=> #<brightcove ::API:0x114dbc8 @token="0Z2dtxTdJAxtbZ-d0U7Bhio2V1Rhr5Iafl5FFtDPY8E.", @api_url="http://api.brightcove.com/services/library">
>> response = brightcove.get('find_all_videos', {:page_size => 3, :video_fields => 'id,name,linkURL,linkText'})
=> {"items"=>[{"name"=>"Documentarian Skydiving", "id"=>496518762, "linkText"=>nil, "linkURL"=>nil}, {"name"=>"Surface Tricks", "id"=>496518763, "linkText"=>nil, "linkURL"=>nil}, {"name"=>"Free Skiing", "id"=>496518765, "linkText"=>nil, "linkURL"=>nil}], "page_number"=>0, "page_size"=>3, "total_count"=>-1}

Today is Misha’s last day.  We wished him luck and toasted him off with some local microbrews from the Troy Pub and Brewery.

RabbitMQ is a very powerful tool, especially when deployed in a cluster. Among RabbitMQ’s more useful features is rabbitmqctl, the command line tool which can be used to query a node and list its exchanges, queues, connections, number of consumers, memory usage and more.

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Rails 3.0.0 now has a release candidate. These are the changes I made to a new application I am working on to clear up any deprecation warnings.

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