Lucene Thrift and Ruby

Tweet This post is going to demonstrate thrift usage by searching a Lucene index from Ruby. Thrift In a Nutshell Essentially thrift is a serialization and RPC framework that allows you to communicate between programs that are not necessarily written in the same language. Thrift is used by defining data types and services in a [...]

Texas Hold’Em

Tweet This post is my solution to Texas Hold’Em. The problem involved taking 7 cards and determining the single best 5 card hand. Like the previous problem, I decided to implement this in Ruby. I probably went too far because what I ended up with was a command line program that when you hit the [...]