Taking expirations out of caching
May 22, 2007
It’s been said that the two last hard problems in programming are naming things and expiring caches. The first is going to be hard to sidestep entirely, but what if we could the second? Tobi arrived at a eureka moment for just that using Memcached and various kinds of caching. Instead of manually expiring things, just ask for a specific version, and let the caching engine take care of dumping that which isn’t used any more.
Read more on The Secret to Memcached.
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Swiftiply: A step forward in Rails serving?
May 16, 2007
A few days ago Kirk Haines announced the release of Swiftiply, an “agnostic clustering proxy for web applications that is specifically designed to support HTTP traffic from web frameworks.” In particular, it’s a fast, clustering proxy that uses untraditional methods to deliver a lot of dynamism, reliability and performance. Naturally, …[Via: Link]
Victor Igumnov has put together a simple walkthrough of how to package a Rails application into a single WAR file to run on a Tomcat server using JRuby, a pure Ruby PostgreSQL library (no ActiveRecord-JDBC needed!), and GoldSpike (JRuby addon that provides rake tasks to make WAR files). This is …[Via: Link]
“Rails Refactoring” by Trotter Cashion
May 16, 2007
Rails Refactoring is an e-book written by Trotter Cashion (of MotionBox) and published by Addison-Wesley. Targeting developers who are tentatively dipping a toe into the world of REST, Rails Refactoring looks at how to turn your old-fashion unRESTian Rails code into the modern REST-capable equivalent. The first major section, for …[Via: Link]
Ruport: Ruby’s Report Generation Toolset Hits 1.0
May 16, 2007
Gregory Brown has just announced the release of Ruport 1.0, a collection of tools that provide “reporting” functions within Ruby. A Rails plugin, acts_as_reportable, is also available to make report generation from Rails applications easy. Reporting tools work by taking your data, processing it using a report definition, then provide …[Via: Link]
Francois Lamontagne is a Québecois Ruby and Rails developer whose blog, Ruby Fleebie, has recently become quite popular due to both having some great tutorial / reference-type posts, and Francois’ rather proactive methods of promoting it on DZone.
Francois has also released Ecstatik, a Rails-powered Digg-like site that presents humorous links …[Via: Link]
Hi, I’m Ruby on Rails…
May 14, 2007
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From the awesome gang of Gregg Pollack and Jason Seifer.
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acts_as_solr Tutorial: More Search Goodness in Rails
May 11, 2007
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A couple of months ago I posted about an acts_as_ferret tutorial, where Ferret is a Ruby port of Apache Lucene and acts_as_ferret provides almost automatic search features to any of your Rails models. It works great on a small scale but some people in the blogosphere pointed out …[Via: Link]
Almost a year ago I posted about Radiant, a then ‘diamond in the rough’ Rails content management system that was under development by John W. Long. Since then Radiant has come along in leaps and bounds and a significant release, namely that of version 0.6, has been made today.
Radiant is …[Via: Link]
Rails Developers I’d Recommend For Your Projects
May 11, 2007
I constantly get mails from various readers who are looking for Rails developers for their projects. As I don’t do this myself, I have to keep giving out a list of Rails developers I know and trust or have had good feedback about. I figured I should make a blog …[Via: Link]
