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, [...]
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.
August 29, 2008 – 6:29 pm
Inspired by two posts _Why’s ’so create’ and GitHub’s Start a Side Project I decided that I needed to do a quick side project. After our demo day we were taking the weekend easy and I had some extra time on Sunday. I decided that I should find a really quick project something I could [...]
When I first started working with Ruby I used RadRails (which still has the best integrated test runner I have used). Various problems and crashes with RadRails along with exciting features being added to Ruby NetBeans enticed me to switch. I enjoyed NetBeans and some of its features, but the weight of my IDE began slowing [...]
When you are working with projects in the command line all day, it can be really annoying to have to remember the exact location of everything. Often when programming against a gem in Ruby, it can be really useful to read over the documentation. Adding a couple lines to your .bash_profile can make loading up [...]
The other day I was talking to my brother about possible plans for Devver’s future. I’d clearly been coding too much that day, so the conversation went something like this:
Me: “Of course, [plan A] and [plan B] aren’t … uh, you know … one doesn’t stop the other … I mean, they aren’t … uh [...]
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