tag-it 0.2.2 is released!

If you read this blog regularly, you know that last week I released a new gem called "tag-it" to interface with RFID receivers and the tags that come into range with them. Well, there's a hot new version.

Before, there were only 2 events that were thrown out by the tag tracker; one when a tag arrived (came into range) and another whenever a tag departed. The problem was, unless people were actually moving into and out of range of the receiver, there was nothing going on. That's not really an inherently bad thing, but from my web-app's view it WAS very similar to what would happen if the client were totally non-functional (powered down, error'd out, etc). In order to allow applications to be sure that nothing's happened, tag-it now also sends out a "pulse" event every 180 seconds (including an array of currently in range tags). Get the latest with

  gem install tag-it