Rave: a framework for building robot applications to participate in Google Wave conversations

1. Jason Rush jasonrush@jasonrush.com

2. Jumpin’ the Gun Google Wave is invite only still Only a handful of invites so far Request Sandbox access athttp://code.google.com/apis/wave/(it’s unclear when you’ll get it though…)

3. What’s Google Wave? Collaboration tool Equal parts email, threaded discussion and instant message Gotta just take the red pill

4. Weren’t We Talking About Robots? Automated participants in a Wave discussion Can do most of what a human can do: Read and write to a conversation Respond to events Respond to a timer

5. Robot API From Google: Java Python App Engine 

6. What’s a Rubyist to Do? YayJRuby! Yay Warbler! Introducing Rave, a framework for building Google Wave robots in Ruby

7. The Building Blocks Wave Wavelet Blip

8. Robot Actions Events WAVELET_BLIP_CREATED WAVELET_BLIP_REMOVED WAVELET_PARTICIPANTS_CHANGED WAVELET_TIMESTAMP_CHANGED WAVELET_TITLE_CHANGED WAVELET_VERSION_CHANGED BLIP_CONTRIBUTORS_CHANGED BLIP_DELETED BLIP_SUBMITTED BLIP_TIMESTAMP_CHANGED BLIP_VERSION_CHANGED DOCUMENT_CHANGED FORM_BUTTON_CLICKED Cron timed events

9. So Let’s Build One! Appropriate Casey (from Rave examples in Github) Turns “I’M NOT YELLING!!!!”into “I’m not yelling.”

10. Resources http://rubyforge.org/projects/rave/ (Rave) http://github.com/diminish7/rave (Rave Code) http://jasonrush.com/blog/ (Tutorial) http://wave.google.com/ (Google Wave) http://www.waveprotocol.org/ (Wave Protocol)

11. Questions?