The Blog: January 2011
Brightcove::API.new(:home => BrightcoveOS)
I am pleased to announce the brightcove-api gem that I maintain has a new home at the Brightcove Open Source portal.
Thumbs Up
In the process of investigating the potential use of the thumbs_up gem (enable voting in your Rails 3 application) on a project today, I came across 2 opportunities to contribute back to the project.
Follow The Leader – Leaderboards with Ruby/Redis
Leaderboard: A board showing the ranking of leaders in a competition.
Do you need to create leaderboards for your application? Do you use Redis? Do you use Ruby? If you’ve answered yes to any or all of these questions, you might want to take a look at the leaderboard gem I am releasing today.
Creating high score tables (leaderboards) using Redis
To my other colleagues at Agora Games, I have one word: FIRST!
Now that I’ve got that out of my system, down to the business at hand. I’ve read a number of articles on Redis that mention how it could be used for high score tables (leaderboards), but I didn’t see any examples that would walk you through exactly how to do that. Time to rectify that since it’s 2011 and we still don’t have flying cars … so ,,|, future.
UPDATE: Please use the original post for any comments/feedback. This post is a placeholder.
UPDATE: All of this has been packaged up in the leaderboard gem on GitHub.
Creating high score tables (leaderboards) using Redis
To my other colleagues at Agora Games, I have one word: FIRST!
Now that I’ve got that out of my system, down to the business at hand. I’ve read a number of articles on Redis that mention how it could be used for high score tables (leaderboards), but I didn’t see any examples that would walk you through exactly how to do that. Time to rectify that since it’s 2011 and we still don’t have flying cars … so ,,|, future.
UPDATE: All of this has been packaged up in the leaderboard gem on GitHub.