The Esoteric Library
summary
Walks through concrete standard‑library pieces: builds a working DRb chat server that actually passes messages between processes, fetches and parses an rss reader from a Rails app via open-uri, converts Markdown to HTML with RDoc/powerdoc (markdown parser + formatter), and renders a colored curses terminal demo. Notes age of libraries (roughly 10–17 years), shows live code and a successful demo for each piece rather than abstract promises.
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chapters (7)
- 0:00Welcome
- 1:53Ruby libraries before gems
- 4:20DRuby for distributed programs
- 17:03RSS library for feeds
- 20:33RDoc for documentation
- 26:04Curses for terminals
- 30:45Closing
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