Matt Smith :

RubyConf 2008 videos

Sat, 29 Nov 2008 03:05:00 -0500

The confreaks have released the RubyConf 2008 videos. Looking forward to watching as I was not able to attend.

Ruleby at the Ruby Hoedown

Fri, 22 Aug 2008 00:27:00 -0400

Confreaks have posted the talks from this year's Ruby Hoedown. Of special interest to me was Joe Kutner's talk on Ruleby, the Rule Engine for Ruby.

A question from the crowd asked about if there were plans for an external DSL and the answer is "yes". We are building an external DSL based on the internal String based DSL in Ruleby with parsing handled by Treetop. It has been a while in the making or not making, but work has begun again...

MattSmith.me is launched!

Mon, 21 Jul 2008 09:50:00 -0400

Welcome to MattSmith.me. Here you will learn about all things related to, well, me. Most will be technical in nature as I am a computer programmer. Among other things I will review books I am reading and projects I am working on. Currently that would be on topics such as ruby, erlang, and REST.

Ruleby, ActiveRule, and Resterly are three projects I am working on. I cofounded the Ruleby project and will soon release ActiveRule and Resterly. ActiveRule will be a plugin aimed at making Ruleby easier to use with Rails and Merb. Resterly is an erlang based project to help with the building of REST based services in erlang. Hopefully these projects will be useful for others...