Hey all, Thanks for the nice comments on my lightning talk last week (readable regular expressions). I got a couple votes for changing the name to "t-rex", but in the end I settled on "rrrex", for Really Readable Regular EXpressions. I also got around to building and publishing it as a gem under this new name, so go ahead and install it if you feel like playing around. You can check out the code on github[1] or view the slides from my talk[2].
The new name also led me to something earlier Googling hadn't turned up: a similar idea implemented in C#[3] and Java[4]. I think you all would agree that my DSL is prettier, although this is perhaps a biased audience :) I thought I'd also give a shoutout to ShowOff[5], the gem I used to build the slides. It's a lovely little tool that takes markdown and turns it into an HTML presentation, which you can serve up to a browser or generate to pdf. It even has simple commands to push to gh-pages and other services, as I did with my slides. Looking forward to the next meeting! Ian Young [1]: https://github.com/youngian/rrrex [2]: http://youngian.github.com/sdruby-lightningtalk-tregexp/#1 [3]: http://flimflan.com/blog/ReadableRegularExpressions.aspx [4]: https://code.google.com/p/rrex/ [5]: https://github.com/schacon/showoff -- SD Ruby mailing list [email protected] http://groups.google.com/group/sdruby
