This week you may have heard about “Chrome,” a new Web browser being developed by Google (if you haven’t, read this online comic book that demonstrates its worthiness). Associated with Chrome is V8, a new open source JavaScript engine that’s designed to execute JavaScript code at never-seen-before speeds.
All this reminded Marc-André Cournoyer (of Thin fame) of HotRuby (see previously on Ruby Inside), an experimental JavaScript-based virtual machine that can run YARV-compiled Ruby code, and he set out to test the performance of Ruby…
By Peter Cooper : September 5, 2008 :
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If you thought August’s job post was hectic, this month will blow you away! The focus is still heavily on Rails - and most of these jobs are in the United States (there’s one in the UK - keep an eye out for it). The Ruby Inside Job Board (costs $99 for a 60 day listing - and you get featured on Ruby Inside like this) is the source for most of the positions.
This month’s interesting opportunities:
Recently we posted about NeverBlock, a Ruby 1.9-specific library that eases the development of apps that use non-blocking IO. eSpace, the company behind the library, have now come along with another surprise… MySQLPlus - a non-blocking MySQL driver for Ruby 1.8 and 1.9! There’s more information here in the official announcement.
MySQLPlus is billed as a new general purpose MySQL driver that supports “threaded access and async operations” and after installing it and running the basic tests that come with the library, it certainly…
Configatron is a new Ruby library that makes it easy to have persistently accessible configuration data available through your Ruby application. It bears some similarities to the Rails pluginSimpleConfig, but being distributed as a gem, is suitable for non-Rails applications. To install: gem install configatron
Once configatron is installed, the following code will get things going:
configatron do |config|
config.app_name = "My Awesomely Jazzy App"
config.database_url = "postgres://localhost/somedb"
end
It has not gone unnoticed that random announcements of individual events do not work well here on Ruby Inside. With events taking more of a local focus these days, it makes more sense to pool the announcements together. This post, therefore, is a rather uncelebrated launch of a new series of event-related compilation posts. Please make sure to post in comments if you have other events you want to mention or visit our Contact page.
MerbCamp - October 11 and 12, 2008 -…
After tackling the difficult task of improving Rails deployment, Phusion - the creators of Passenger (mod_rails) recently announced the availability of daemon_controller - a library (rather than a stand-alone tool) for managing daemons. It lets you write applications that manage daemons in a robust manner (e.g. mongrel_cluster or UltraSphinx could be adapted to use this library).
The primary motivation for using daemon_controller is to make it easier to have other applications (such as Rails apps) start daemons without encountering race conditions or parallel attempts.…
By Shalev NessAiver : August 26, 2008 :
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Videos from the recent Ruby Hoedown conference are now available at the Confreaks site.
The talks this year are split between traditional talks and “Lightning Talks” - 5 minute presentations that quickly highlight a single package or aspect of Ruby. The talks cover a wide range of topics including Archaeopteryx - a Ruby MIDI/Music generator, easy phone calling with ruby, cloud computing, the usual excellent testing and design patterns talks, and a slew of other quirky and useful presentations.
By Peter Cooper : August 26, 2008 :
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We first covered Mack in April, when I billed it as a “fast, best of the rest, Web app framework.” Mack, a Ruby-based Web application framework, developed by a team led by Mark Bates, has continued to grow over the past several months and today announced a significant release, Mack 0.7.0.
Mack is a unique Ruby Web app framework due to its heavy focus on reusability across multiple applications. Mack supports distributed objects - yes, between multiple applications, distributed views and layouts, and even distributed…
Github is a great resource for finding new projects within the Ruby community. It has become an extremely popular place for Ruby and Rails developers to congregate lately, so I wanted to list some of the new projects, and some of the updated ones, that I have found interesting and that are too small for their own blog post. Let us know if you like this as we might turn it into a regular series on Ruby Inside!
This month’s picks:
NeverBlock is a Ruby (1.9) library developed by eSpace - an Egyptian Web 2.0 development team - that could make your life a whole lot easier if you have to deal with blocking IO operations that hold up all your Ruby threads.
NeverBlock makes it easy to get the benefits of non-blocking IO (IO operations that aren’t held up by mutexes) in your Ruby apps without having to take the usual route of redesigning your app to be event-based. You get all…
