November 19, 2008 – 3:19 pm
This post is a follow up to Ruby beanstalkd basics, I will try to make the example code little more interesting and useful. I am calling this is a Ruby beanstalkd intermediate write up, it sets up a few workers and distributes and receives results simultaneously. In this example the code resembles real code a [...]
October 30, 2008 – 7:53 am
One awesome thing about working at a startup is that you get to focus very deeply on the problem you’re trying to solve. On the other hand, if you’ve taken the leap and founded a startup, it’s probably because you tend to see solutions and opportunities everywhere. It can be really hard to focus on [...]
October 28, 2008 – 2:35 pm
At Devver we have a lot of jobs to do quickly, so we distribute our work out to a group of EC2 workers. We have tried and used a number of queuing solutions with Ruby, but in the end beanstalkd seemed to be the best solution for us at the time.
I have only seen a [...]
October 9, 2008 – 12:23 pm
The other day I was running in a weird error on Devver. After running around twenty test runs on the system, the component that actually runs individual unit tests was crashing due to “Too many open files - (Errno::EMFILE)”
Unfortunately, I didn’t know much more than that. Which files were being kept open? I knew that [...]
October 3, 2008 – 10:25 am
I collected all of the Ruby tools posts I made this week into a single roundup. You can quickly jump to any tool that interests you or read my reviews start to finish. If you just want to read a individual section here are the previous posts Ruby Code Quality Tools, Ruby Test Quality Tools, [...]
October 1, 2008 – 10:04 pm
This is the third post in my series of Ruby tools articles. This time I look at Ruby code quality tools. Rubyists like Ruby because the code can look so nice, simple, and sometimes beautiful. Unfortunately not all code is so great, in fact often the code I write doesn’t look good. Fortunately while a [...]
September 30, 2008 – 9:57 am
This is the second post in my series of Ruby tools articles. This time I am focused on Ruby test quality tools. Devver is always really interested in testing, and obviously the quality of a project’s tests is important. We are always looking at ways to add even more value to the investment teams put [...]
September 28, 2008 – 2:35 pm
I have been interested in all of the tools that exist for Ruby developers. I give you the first of a series of posts where I will be looking at some of the more interesting Ruby tools.
Recently a few different Rail performance tools / web services have been released. They are leaps and bounds better [...]
September 5, 2008 – 3:46 pm
I just read a great post at Ekinoderm that nicely tied together two things Dan and I have been thinking and blogging about recently - the joys of side projects and why you should own your own IP. Check it out.
September 4, 2008 – 3:19 pm
I am am a big believer in software testing. I normally have created tests after writing my code and mostly to ensure that regressions of functionality don’t occur when the code is changed. As I have become more comfortable with testing, and the changes it requires such as writing testable code, I have found even [...]
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