See It In Action
Rails
Code Swarm - Rails
Apparently, in 2008 Rails switched to github. I see that pretty clearly :)
STC
Code Swarm - STC Shifts
Code Swarm - STC Reservations
STC usually only works in the summer. Sometimes Adam tweaks things during the year. Some people import more libraries than others.
Getting it working
I have a full gist that describes how I set it up; just a quick summary here.
I cloned this, and set up the prerequisites according to the README:
https://github.com/rictic/code_swarmThis commit broke everything for me, so reverted it. I don’t know enough python to come up with a better solution, but I put a note on their wiki page
https://github.com/rictic/code_swarm/commit/f15334b162bd0f3f939f3879fbec1935bd094c8cThen I ran the command code_swarm in the directory of my project.
Beautiful video appeared!
Getting Video Out
Then I edited the .config file (after running it once) so that it would record frames
# Save each frame to an image?
TakeSnapshots=true
Then I followed these instructions to create the video (using ffmpeg, because that’s what I had already): http://code.google.com/p/codeswarm/wiki/GeneratingAVideo
ffmpeg -f image2 -r 24 -i %05d.png -sameq ./out.mov -pass 2
Built-in command for video
It looks like there’s a command code_swarm_video that would generate a
video more easily, but it requires mencoder which I never got working.
Would this be easier if I just got mencoder working? Or would it be better to write-in a ffmpeg alternative?
