The Blog: December 2010

We are using the ruby-recaptcha library here at Agora Games. I got a bug from our QA department that they wanted the CAPTCHA failure message to change from ‘Captcha failed.’ to ‘CAPTCHA failed.’.

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I’m Steven. I hail from the suburbs of Boston and I’m currently a 3rd year student at the Rochester Institute of Technology where we are required to do a minimum of 12 months of full time co-op before graduation. Agora Games is my 3rd and final co-op experience and I’m very excited to be working here!

Eventmachine describes itself as a “fast, simple event-processing library for Ruby programs.” Included in it is a module called Deferrable that allows easy and lightweight concurrency. Deferrable makes it simple to spawn a blocking or long running operation, push it to the background, and on completion execute any number of code blocks (callbacks).

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The constant-redefinition gem allows you to define constants if not defined on an object and redefine constants without warning.

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