tonight - Google Wave - Ruby

[Daniel Parker]

Google Wave .. I created a small page with some starter info, at http://wiki.github.com/detroitrb/detroitrb/ruby-google-wave-nov09-meeting I'm still not sure exactly what we want to accomplish, but I'm up for anything Ruby and Google Wave. If you take a quick look at that page you can see that there are several Wave + Ruby tools already created, and we probably don't want to do what they've already done -- unless we do want to, just to get some familiarity with the protocols.

- daniel parker -

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Also, I had said I was going to propose a site that I want made, and see if anybody's interested in joining efforts to actually create it. Well, here it is, you can think about it a little before group tonight, and hopefully we'll discuss it a little later. The premise is that 1) Wave is a better application platform than Facebook (and you know how many applications have been made for Facebook), and that 2) once the Wave robot protocol is open to sites other than AppEngine, there will be plenty of people wanting to create robots in Ruby. The goal then is to create a site where it's really super ridiculously easy to create a Wave robot in Ruby. Like scriptlets, where all you have to do is fill in what you want it to do with the different types of calls and information - using Ruby. It would be in a sense a Ruby web framework for handling Wave robot communications, where all you have to worry about is your application code. I want to be able to make a really simple Robot in about 5 minutes using this site. Since the robot protocol is all based on webhooks, all we'd have to do is run the code that people write, after giving them a url that identifies their specific robot -- but to do that safely, we'll probably have to run them as really restricted linux users, in a read-only filesystem environment, as well as restrict CPU and memory usage. Eventually we could provide priority service and more resources to paid accounts.