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 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 [...]
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 [...]
We have been trying to work with some different Ruby technologies lately. We are moving to RSpec from Test::Unit, because we believe it has several advantages. It also seems all the cool projects are moving to RSpec: Rubinius, Typo, Mephisto, and of course Merb.
In learning these two technologies together, I have found a few resources [...]
People are complaining that GoDaddy censored a security site, bid against customers in domain auctions (more), and totally screwed up .me registrations. There’s even an entire site dedicated to exposing GoDaddy’s problems.
We had been lucky enough to never really have any problems with them. Since everything worked for us (even though we hated their UI [...]
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