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Game Face
“Game Face” will be our weekly round-up of our internal and external open source work here at Agora Games. Internal open source refers to our public projects that you can find over at our Agora Games GitHub account. External open source work refers to projects that we contribute to in off-hours and may or may not have anything to do with video games because we’re swell folks like that. Pretty simple right? Here goes…
chai
chai provides a very easy to use api for mocking/stubbing your python objects, patterned after the Mocha library for Ruby. This past week saw 0.3.5 and subsequently 0.3.6 releases. We fixed only closing a non-matching expectation if its counts have been met as well as fixing the logic of raising UnexpectedCall when calling a stub and an unclosed, non-matching, in-order expectation does not have its counts met (got all that?).
Contributor(s): Aaron Westendorf (GitHub, Twitter)
factory_worker
factory-worker is a node.js library that creates the Factory pattern for object stores. We integrated a patch to provide a clearer error when a parent is not defined. We’ll get a formal release out shortly.
Contributor(s): Brandon Mason (GitHub)
haigha
haigha is our simple to use client library for interacting with AMQP brokers. In the 0.5.10 release, we fixed an unexpected indent error. Thanks to Chris Erway for pointing that out to us.
Contributor(s): David Czarnecki (GitHub, Twitter)
Game Face
“Game Face” will be our weekly round-up of our internal and external open source work here at Agora Games. Internal open source refers to our public projects that you can find over at our Agora Games GitHub account. External open source work refers to projects that we contribute to in off-hours and may or may not have anything to do with video games because we’re swell folks like that. Pretty simple right? Here goes…
kairos
kairos provides time series storage using Redis or Mongo backends. This week we started a series-collapse branch with a work-in-progress implementation for a collapse function on retrieval of a given series.
Contributor(s): Aaron Westendorf (GitHub, Twitter)
Game Face
“Game Face” will be our weekly round-up of our internal and external open source work here at Agora Games. Internal open source refers to our public projects that you can find over at our Agora Games GitHub account. External open source work refers to projects that we contribute to in off-hours and may or may not have anything to do with video games because we’re swell folks like that. Pretty simple right? Here goes…
leaderboard
leaderboard allows you to build leaderboards using Redis. The leaderboard (Ruby), leaderboard-python and leaderboard-coffeescript libraries all saw updates this week. In leaderboard 3.2.0, we added a method to be able to remove members from the leaderboard outside a given rank . This same functionality was ported to leaderboard-coffeescript 1.2.0 and leaderboard-python 2.4.0.
Contributor(s): David Czarnecki (GitHub, Twitter) and Simon Zimmerman (GitHub).
Game Face
“Game Face” will be our weekly round-up of our internal and external open source work here at Agora Games. Internal open source refers to our public projects that you can find over at our Agora Games GitHub account. External open source work refers to projects that we contribute to in off-hours and may or may not have anything to do with video games because we’re swell folks like that. Pretty simple right? Here goes…
chai
chai provides a very easy to use api for mocking/stubbing your python objects, patterned after the Mocha library for Ruby. We’ve had a few rapid fire releases to try and address Python 3 compatibility. chai 0.3.4 incorporates the following:
- Further fixed global namespace manipulation on test class hierarchies
- Expectations with a type argument are matched against either an instance of that type, or the type itself
- Removed unittest2 requirement and termcolor requirement, fixes https://github.com/agoragames/chai/issues/5
Contributor(s): Aaron Westendorf (GitHub, Twitter)
torus
torus is a service implementing the Carbon protocol to store time series data using kairos and an HTTP server to query and analyze the data. torus 0.3.2 incorporates the following changes:
- Fixed handling of “condensed” and “interval” parameters to “/series”
- Fixed handling of “start” and “end” parameters to “/series”
Contributor(s): Aaron Westendorf (GitHub, Twitter)
Game Face
“Game Face” will be our weekly round-up of our internal and external open source work here at Agora Games. Internal open source refers to our public projects that you can find over at our Agora Games GitHub account. External open source work refers to projects that we contribute to in off-hours and may or may not have anything to do with video games because we’re swell folks like that. Pretty simple right? Here goes…
kairos
kairos provides time series storage using Redis or Mongo backends. As of the 0.3.0 release, we have implemented support for Gregorian data intervals (daily, weekly, monthly, yearly) and there is a new API for Timeseries.series(). Check the README for more details.
Contributor(s): Aaron Westendorf (GitHub, Twitter)
leaderboard
leaderboard allows you to build leaderboards using Redis. The leaderboard (Ruby), leaderboard-python and leaderboard-coffeescript libraries all saw updates this week. In leaderboard 3.1.0, we added support for a members_only option when making various leaderboard requests to only return the member data and not rank or score data. This same functionality was ported to leaderboard-coffeescript 1.1.0 and leaderboard-python 2.3.0.
Contributor(s): David Czarnecki (GitHub, Twitter) and Simon Zimmerman (GitHub).
torus
torus is a service implementing the Carbon protocol to store time series data using kairos and an HTTP server to query and analyze the data. With the 0.3.0 release, we upgrade to kairos 0.3.0 to add support for Gregorian dates and date ranges to “/series”, added support for UNIX timestamps or parsedatetime-compatible strings for ‘start’ and ‘end’ parameters to “/series” and added support for ‘steps’ parameter to “/series”.
Contributor(s): Aaron Westendorf (GitHub, Twitter)
Game Face
“Game Face” will be our weekly round-up of our internal and external open source work here at Agora Games. Internal open source refers to our public projects that you can find over at our Agora Games GitHub account. External open source work refers to projects that we contribute to in off-hours and may or may not have anything to do with video games because we’re swell folks like that. Pretty simple right? Here goes…
bnet_scraper
bnet_scraper is our Nokogiri-based scraper of Battle.net profiles. In 0.6.0, we added a GrandmasterScraper to pull all grandmasters by region, improved the portrait code as well as updating portrait names for anniversary.
Contributor(s): Andrew Nordman (GitHub, Twitter)
confirm-with-reveal
confirm-with-reveal is a replacement for window.confirm() using the Reveal modal popup plugin from Zurb Foundation. The latest release this week addresses form confirmation on submit, not on click. You can also check out the plugin in action on the project page.
Contributor(s): Jack Letourneau (GitHub, Twitter)
leaderboard_factory
leaderboard_factory is a gem to help you define and work with a bunch of leaderboards, from, e.g. an ActiveModel object. The latest release fixes the specs to work with the leaderboard 3.0+ gem.
Contributor(s): Matthew Wilson (GitHub, Twitter)
stache
stache is our Rails 3.x compatible Mustache/Handlebars Template Handler, with support for partials and a couple extra niceties to make sharing the raw templates with client-side javascript a little easier. The 1.0.1 release fixes a regression in mustache layout handling.
Contributor(s): Matthew Wilson (GitHub, Twitter)
Game Face
“Game Face” will be our weekly round-up of our internal and external open source work here at Agora Games. Internal open source refers to our public projects that you can find over at our Agora Games GitHub account. External open source work refers to projects that we contribute to in off-hours and may or may not have anything to do with video games because we’re swell folks like that. Pretty simple right? Here goes…
activity_feed
activity_feed is our Ruby gem for storing and managing activity feeds in Redis. The 2.3.0 release adds a check_item?(…) method to see if an item is in an activity feed.
Contributor(s): David Czarnecki (GitHub, Twitter)
homebrew
homebrew is the “missing package manager for OS X”. We submitted a pull request that was integrated for adding Redis 2.6.13 support.
Contributor(s): David Czarnecki (GitHub, Twitter)
kairos
kairos provides time series storage using a Redis backend and, as of 0.2.0, MongoDB. The latest release is a major refactor, and with the new MongoDB backend, supports many more use cases. The 0.2.1 release also includes optimizations for processing multiple transforms on each data set query.
Contributor(s): Aaron Westendorf (GitHub, Twitter)
Game Face
“Game Face” will be our weekly round-up of our internal and external open source work here at Agora Games. Internal open source refers to our public projects that you can find over at our Agora Games GitHub account. External open source work refers to projects that we contribute to in off-hours and may or may not have anything to do with video games because we’re swell folks like that. Pretty simple right? Here goes…
confirm-with-reveal
confirm-with-reveal is a replacement for window.confirm() using the Reveal modal popup plugin from Zurb Foundation. See example jsFiddle for a demo.
Contributor(s): Jack Letourneau (GitHub, Twitter)
Ruby-MAPI-Wrapper
brightcove-api is a Ruby gem for interacting with the Brightcove Media API. This week we integrated a pull request to allow an UploadIO object to be passed to the post_io_streaming method.
Contributor(s): Mihail Szabolcs (GitHub)
Game Face
“Game Face” will be our weekly round-up of our internal and external open source work here at Agora Games. Internal open source refers to our public projects that you can find over at our Agora Games GitHub account. External open source work refers to projects that we contribute to in off-hours and may or may not have anything to do with video games because we’re swell folks like that. Pretty simple right? Here goes…
factory-worker
factory-worker is a node.js library that creates the Factory pattern for object stores. The 0.7.0 release integrates a pull request to allow inheritance from already-defined models in Factory.create. We also updated the jessie library as well as cleaning up the npm contact information.
Contributor(s): Joseph Kenneth (GitHub) and Andrew Nordman (GitHub, Twitter)
tassadar
tassadar is our fast Starcraft 2 replay parser written in pure Ruby. We will cut a new release soon, but we integrated a pull request to remove random <sp/> in player names that have clan tags.
Contributor(s): Robert Ross (GitHub)
Game Face
“Game Face” will be our weekly round-up of our internal and external open source work here at Agora Games. Internal open source refers to our public projects that you can find over at our Agora Games GitHub account. External open source work refers to projects that we contribute to in off-hours and may or may not have anything to do with video games because we’re swell folks like that. Pretty simple right? Here goes…
bnet_scraper
bnet_scraper is our Nokogiri-based scraper of Battle.net profiles. There are quite a few changes in the 0.5.0 release, most notably more “Heart of the Swarm” support. Be sure to check out the CHANGELOG for all the details on new functionality in this release.
Contributor(s): Andrew Nordman (GitHub, Twitter)
chai
chai provides a very easy to use api for mocking/stubbing your python objects, patterned after the Mocha library for Ruby. In 0.3.0, expectations have been improved on by not insisting that one knows how many times an expectation will be called unless explicitly set as well as assuming any arguments on an expectation unless explicitly set. Finally we fixed stubbing properties on an instance.
Contributor(s): Aaron Westendorf (GitHub, Twitter)
forecast.io
forecast-ruby is a forecast.io API wrapper in Ruby. The gem now uses Faraday to allow for swapping of the underlying HTTP library.
Contributor(s): Norbert Crombach (GitHub)
tassadar
tassadar is our fast Starcraft 2 replay parser written in pure Ruby. No release, but if you’re doing development, we did update things to use guard-rspec.
Contributor(s): Logan Koester (GitHub, Twitter)
torus
torus is a service implementing the Carbon protocol to store time series data using kairos and an HTTP server to query and analyze the data. As of 0.1.4, we have updated to kairos 0.1.5 with a bug fix for reading data from timeseries with relative time interval schemas. Aggregates can now cascade to other aggregates, with a simple failsafe on infinite loops.
Contributor(s): Aaron Westendorf (GitHub, Twitter)