[Boulder Ruby Group] DistribuStream released

[Tony Arcieri]

Hello everyone.  I'm proud to announce the first initial public release of
DistribuStream:

http://distribustream.rubyforge.org/

The impatient can have at it with: gem install distribustream

DistribuStream is a fully open
peercasting<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peercasting>system — allowing
on-demand or live streaming media to be delivered at a
fraction of the normal cost.  It's similar to BitTorrent, except you can
watch videos as they download, and it's not written in Python :)  If you've
ever been frustrated with torrenting a video and getting impatient waiting
for the download to finish, this is the solution you've been waiting for...

The present state of the code is, let's say, "pre-beta".  There's a few
major showstoppers in terms of actually using it for streaming video, namely
this release has some pretty bad security problems and the client presently
consumes ungodly amounts of memory.

I'd greatly appreciate any help in terms of cleaning up the codebase (many
bits are highly imperative and could be greatly simplified) as well as
helping fix any of the big showstopper issues.  Anyone with RSpec experience
who wants to help improve the test coverage would also be extremely
appreciated.

-- 
Tony Arcieri
ClickCaster, Inc.
tony at clickcaster.com
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