Ruby Inside:
Egyptian Ruby developer Muhammed Ali (of MySQLPlus fame) has released the first draft of a "Ruby 1.9.x Web Servers" booklet. It looks at how different HTTP daemons and server libraries (Thin, Passenger, WEBrick and Mongrel) p (Read More)
Delicious hotlist:
We’ve been running Unicorn for more than a month. Time to talk about it.What is it?Unicorn is an HTTP server for Ruby, similar to Mongrel or Thin. It uses Mongrel’s Ragel HTTP parser but has a dramatically different architect (Read More)
Ryan Tomayko's Writings:
Eric Wong’s mostly pure-Ruby HTTP backend, Unicorn, is aninspiration. I've studied this file for a couple of daysnow and it’s undoubtedly one of the best, most densely packedexamples of Unix programming in Ruby I've come acro (Read More)
Submitted by emmeffe2
from Google Reader:
Cruelty existed in social housing in the 1950s too, but never has it been flaunted so uninhibitedlyTo judge by the pictures on the television news, the most terrible events in Britain have a habit of happening either inside o (Read More)
Snax:
We recently migrated Twitter from a custom Ruby 1.8.6 build to a Ruby Enterprise Edition release candidate, courtesy of Phusion. Our primary motivation was the integration of Brent's MBARI patches, which increase memory stabi (Read More)
Ryan Tomayko's Writings:
Unicorn is a newish Rack-based HTTP server that’s kinda sorta like Mongrel but comes packed with some insane process management features. The main link is to the SIGNALS file, which documents the master/worker process model, (Read More)
Delicious hotlist:
Better late than never, right? As we get ready to upgrade our servers I thought it’d be a good time to upgrade our deployment process. Currently pushing out a new version of GitHub takes upwards of 15 minutes. Ouch. My goal: (Read More)
Submitted by digiphile
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Got an image you'd like to see in here first thing in the morning? Send it to tips@deadspin.com. Subject: Morning crap. At some point this weekend, our mystical underground server fortress fell under attack from a faceless mo (Read More)
Ryan Tomayko's Writings:
Adam takes a look at how long requests and backlog interact. The sleep example runs concurrently under Mongrel but Thin and WEBrick will backlog. (Read More)
Submitted by wowelster
from YouTube:
UK Release: 20th July 2009 Click link for free Album mp3 Mix - http://links.emi.com/mpho/signupOfficial HD Promo Video for MPHO's debut (and very fantastic) single 'Box N Locks', taken from the forthcoming album 'Pop Art'.Do (Read More)
Submitted by spaceufo
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트위터가 어떻게 개발되었을 까? 아래는 타임지에 실린 트위터의 기사이다. 타임지에서 트위터가 우리의 삶을 어떻게 바꾸어 놓을 것인가 에 대한 기사를 실었다. 이처럼 현재 트위터같은 실시간 웹은 온-오프라인을 넘나들면서 새로운 문화를 만들어 가고 있다. 개인적으로도 맥장비에는 Twitterrific 을 설치하고 윈도우의 FireFoX에는 Twitter Extension을 설치하여 사용하고 있다. 분명한 (Read More)
The Rails Way - all:
Anyone who’s built a rails application that deals with large file uploads probably has a few horror stories to tell about it. While some people love to overstate the issues for their own purposes, it’s still something that c (Read More)
Brainspl.at:
I’m looking for a few good folks to join my team. You need to be able to work on site in San Francisco, we can assist with moving expenses for the right candidate. You would work with my team(currently 5 devs). We do no bs ag (Read More)
Smashing Magazine:
Last week we published Getting Started With Ruby On Rails, the first part of our Ruby On Rails introduction. We explained basic ideas behind Ruby and presented concepts and essential components of the language. In this articl (Read More)
Riding Rails - home:
Phusion Passenger aka mod_rails has been on a tour de force lately and rightfully so. It makes Rails deployment so much simpler and combined with REE faster and with less memory overhead. So I’m really happy to see that lots (Read More)
Submitted by arjunghosh
from YouTube:
RailsConf Keynote: David Heinemeier Hansson. This entire presentation can be viewed at http://www.scribemedia.org/2006/07/09/david-heinemeier-hansson/. (Read More)
Rubynaut: Scaling a Rails app (Part 3 of 3):
This the third and last part for a summary about solutions to help better computing of your rails app 1st part. 2nd part. Some home made benchmarks NB: Following benchmarks have been made to a quick look study and not for (Read More)
Joyent Wiki:
The preferred method of deploying a Rails application on Joyent Shared Accelerators is with Mongrel. This article assumes that you have a Rails application (whether it’s your own, or downloaded elsewhere) already installed an (Read More)