Ketan's Musings

Akshay and me have been pairing since a couple of days to hack together a java version of CCTray written using SWT. This version of CCTray can connect to CCNET and cc.rb.

A lot of folks use *nix and the existing CCTray is not much help.

If you wish to use this pre-alpha release, feel free to write back. It’s not all that configurable, so you have been warned

Oh, yes, BTW this release depends on issue #899 of CCNet dashboard, and issue #118 of CC.rb. You can vote for these issues to be resolved to see CCTray in Java released a bit earlier.

Finally a screenshot for those really interested.

ThoughtWorks today announced a Continuous Integration tool, CruiseControl.rb. CruiseControl.rb is the Ruby version of CruiseControl, called CruiseControl.rb

The motto of CC.rb reads:

easy to install, pleasant to use and simple to hack

What kind of good stuff does that mean?

• download and get building in 5-10 minutes (maybe 15 if you stop to read the manual)
• little to no configuration (seriously, just tell it your svn url)
• works for ruby, java, dotnet … anything that you can invoke from the command line
• aesthetic beauty (not bad for a build tool)

GNUnify 07 at Symbiosis was a great event.

Sriram and me spoke on eclipse plug-in development on behalf of The Pune Eclipse Developers’ Group

The talk by A. Sundararajan from Sun on opensourcing the Java implementation (OpenJDK) from Sun was very interesting.

Moinak Ghosh from Sun gave a demo on some of the advanced features of OpenSolaris.

Also got an opportunity to meet Narayan Raman and Vivek Prahlad who’d developed Sahi and frankenstein.

Having found some time off from my regular work, I’ve decided to play catchup with Ruby, more specifically the Ruby-on-rails stack.

I’ve downloaded ruby 1.8.5, and ruby gems, the package manager.

// TODO
Investigate on:

• the language
• the documentation, and the way it is organized
• some good ruby enthusiasts (read: bloggers)
• frameworks available, I found out there’s a RubyForge
• “help wanted” on open-source ruby projects