Dan Croak hacked on hello. Hello is a Ruby interface to a collection of the word “hello” in many languages and dialects. It was written for Flickr-style messages after users sign in to a web application.
Nick Quaranto and Mike Burns hacked on beardo. Beardo is a command line interface for Co-op, since some of us are too cool to use the web interface. It uses rest-client as a wrapper around the Co-op API.
Joe Ferris and Josh Nichols worked on converting the test suite for Factory Girl to use RR and RSpec . They also worked on Joe’s vim script to automate converting Shoulda tests to RSpec.
Nick (last name?) benchmarked an add-on to the Thin web server using Apache Bench. He found that with the add-on, he was getting about the same number of requests per second with the add-on and one Thin versus four regular Thins.
Brian Cardarella was working his wrapper for the OpenSecrets.org API, deepthroat