Category Archives: ruby

Mingruby 0.1.8 released

By | Published: December 17, 2006
I have brought the Ming Ruby library up to date with Ming 0.3, added patches submitted by users over the past year and included a ton of user supplied examples. I hope to find time soon to include the real examples on a page by themselves with the code needed to generate each. You can [...]
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How to Create a Streaming Flash Video Player Using Ming PHP or Ruby

By | Published: November 29, 2006
I mentioned in creating Flash videos using FFMpeg that you could use Ming to create your own Flash video player. I've added a patch to the ruby -ming extension for video streaming so now it is possible to create a streaming player with both PHP and Ruby using their Ming extensions. The following examples show [...]
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Ruby Ming Extension Patch to Add Video Streaming

By | Published: November 27, 2006
After playing with the Ruby Ming extension a little more I found that they don't have support for SWFVideoStreams so I made a patch to add it. The patch also fixes the beta issues I described in building the ming ruby extension.
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Building The Ming Ruby Extension

By | Published: November 25, 2006
I've been trying out Ming SWF output library in PHP for a few days and I thought I would give the Ruby extension a try to see how well it worked. It turns out that it is kind of old and busted but it is fixable.
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Fun with ANSI escape codes

By | Published: November 3, 2006
For fun I recently pimped out a ruby script that I had written for some testing with a little color and a spinner. If you have never used ANSI escape codes before I've put together a simple script that shows how easy it is.
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Credit card type and luhn check in ruby

By | Published: March 15, 2006
I was looking at implementing a luhn and credit card type check the other day in java and I noticed that there seems to be a lack of code for doing this in ruby. So I figured I would put something together for doing the checks in ruby. The following function will do a luhn [...]
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