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Archive for May 2009

Talk: Writing a language in 15 minutes

In Functional, Heist, Lisp, Math, Metaprogramming, Prototype, Ruby, Talks on 19 May 2009 with 7 comments

I gave a talk at London Ruby User Group yesterday, based on the work I’ve been doing on Heist, my Scheme interpreter project. I wrote the core of a basic Scheme interpreter in about 15 minutes as a live-coded demo (well, kind of – the coding was pre-recorded so I could focus on talking), which [...]

Consent updates: Rails 2.3 compatibility, request expressions every which way

In Consent, Rails, Ruby on 9 May 2009 with 1 comment

A brief note to point out some changes I made to Consent, my access control DSL for Rails. I’ve been doing some Rails development for the first time in a few months and ran into some things that needed changing. First up, it seems Rails 2.3 uses application_controller.rb rather than application.rb for the root controller [...]