Re: RAD Development

[Douglas Jones]

Hello my name is Douglas.

I'm looking for an open-source project to contribute to and I think RAD would be the perfect project for me.  I read about it on Hacker News and the site said to contact this email for information on contributing.  

I am by no means a ninja in either C++ or Ruby, but I am a working apprentice who uses both daily during my regular job for the past 3 years.  I one day hope to be a ninja in both languages, and I think working on cool interesting projects like RAD could help me get there.  

I currently don't have any experience with Arduino, but I'm willing to learn.  

If you think you could use me, I'd love to help out with the project.

-- 
A rolling stone gathers no moss...

[Matthew Williams]

Hey Douglas!

My name's Matt, I discovered RAD back in 2008 and was fortunate enough
to meet Greg, the author of the framework and have a little fun during
his RubyConf '08 talk on RAD, which I highly recommend you watch to
get an idea of how everything works:

http://rubyconf2008.confreaks.com/ruby-arduino-development.html

You can also take a more detailed look at the RAD project I did and
blogged about:

http://www.matthewdavidwilliams.com/2008/10/17/introducing-barduino-the-ruby-powered-bar-monkey/

Next, take a look at this thread from a few weeks ago (http://
groups.google.com/group/ruby-arduino-development/browse_thread/thread/
8562b61ae5f27d7?hl=en_US). We're in a state of revival right now.
Out of the box, RAD doesn't quite work. Too many dependencies have
changed and Greg had since been accepted into IPT (working alongside
some of the Arduino founders) and couldn't maintain the project.
However, there's a few forks out there that may be working, are Ruby
1.9.2 compatible etc etc.

It'd be fantastic if you want to contribute! I'm in the middle of one
of my busiest summers ever (6 weddings :(), so much of my time has
been consumed. I am however looking through the RAD forks and looking
at what I could merge into the mainline to revive RAD and keep it
active again (I'm a contribute on the main repo). So with that said,
hack away! If you issue a pull request that improves upon anything,
adds anything of value, or fixes anything broken; I'll merge it in an
instant!

Also, and this is for anyone who wants to contribute back to RAD - we
may have an opportunity to get a hold of some hardware to test
against, or maybe offer as a reward for some bounties.

Thanks for chiming in and joining the group - RAD does pop up on
Hacker News every so often. I'm hoping the next time it's there,
it'll be much more active and have a lot more to offer.

Thanks!
-Matt Williams
@mwilliams

[Rodney Degracia]

Matthew,

I forked the https://github.com/atduskgreg/rad project and I got it
to work under OSX.

My repo is located at https://github.com/rdegraci/rad and I have a
short write up at http://www.elitefrontier.org/2011/9/12/rad-0-2-2-gem-list

I sent a pull request to atduskgreg, so hopefully he will be able to
merge in my changes.

If anyone has any questions or needs help with getting Rad up and
running, just drop me an e-mail, or reply to the group.


Rodney Degracia
rdeg...@gmail.com

http://www.elitefrontier.org




On Jul 19, 10:06 am, Matthew Williams <matthew.d.willi...@gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hey Douglas!
>
> My name's Matt, I discovered RAD back in 2008 and was fortunate enough
> to meet Greg, the author of the framework and have a little fun during
> his RubyConf '08 talk on RAD, which I highly recommend you watch to
> get an idea of how everything works:
>
> http://rubyconf2008.confreaks.com/ruby-arduino-development.html
>
> You can also take a more detailed look at the RAD project I did and
> blogged about:
>

> http://www.matthewdavidwilliams.com/2008/10/17/introducing-barduino-t...

[Matthew Williams]

Rodney,

That's great! I saw the pull request come through and I have commit
rights on the repo as well so I can merge it in. I just need some
time to give it a good look - sounds like you've done solid work
though to get it up to snuff on OSX! Awesome news!

Cheers,
-Matt

On Sep 13, 7:42 pm, Rodney Degracia <rdegr...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Matthew,
>
> I forked thehttps://github.com/atduskgreg/rad project and I got it
> to work under OSX.
>
> My repo is located athttps://github.com/rdegraci/rad and I have a
> short write up athttp://www.elitefrontier.org/2011/9/12/rad-0-2-2-gem-list

>
> I sent a pull request to atduskgreg, so hopefully he will be able to
> merge in my changes.
>
> If anyone has any questions or needs help with getting Rad up and
> running, just drop me an e-mail, or reply to the group.
>
> Rodney Degracia

> rdegr...@gmail.com