Esoteric Library
summary
A tour of Ruby’s buried standard‑library tools shows concrete claims and demos not abstractions The presenter builds a DRb chat server hitting real issues then gets it running reports DRb landed around 2006 and caused protocol confusion An RSS parser example uses open uri and the stdlib RSS with five patches to that file in a decade RDoc’s pure Ruby Markdown via kpeg curses UIs still work after 16 years and Fiddle dl ffi calls libc time to replace Time subtraction on the host system
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chapters (8)
- 0:00Introduction
- 7:43Ruby’s esoteric library history
- 29:19Live demo: DRb chat server
- 31:27RSS library usage
- 33:24RDoc’s markdown parser
- 37:07Curses UI library
- 41:10Fiddle: dynamic binding
- 46:00Closing remarks
