Anatomy of a Ruby Gem: Mustachify.me

While building Jux.com, there was a need for applying transformations and effects to images in a way that would work across devices. The Magickly (http://magickly.afeld.me/) app was then built as a stateless image effects API. To demonstrate it's flexibility, the app was converted into a gem and used to power Mustachio (https://github.com/afeld/mustachio) (better known as mustachify.me (http://mustachify.me/)). This talk will cover some of the architecture decisions for Magickly, some fun findings about ImageMagick, and the internals of both gems.

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Aidan Feldman is Education Hacker (http://afeld.me/1556158) at GitHub by day, dancer by night. On the side, he organizes Hacker Hours (http://hackerhours.org/), volunteers at CoderDojo (http://coderdojonyc.com/), bikes, and teaches Advanced JavaScript (http://documentup.com/afeld/advanced_js) at NYU. api.afeld.me (http://api.afeld.me/)