…directly to Beanstalk, all the traffic is routed through our custom em-proxy (~150 LOC) which parses the Beanstalk protocol, intercepts custom commands, or simply inspects the "delay" parameter, and decides where the job should be routed: beanstalk or the MySQL instance. Jobs that are scheduled at least one hour into the future are persisted into the database, which significantly reduces the memory footprint. Finally, in the background, the upcoming jobs are silently loaded into …
- 4 Lines of Code: Background Jobs in Ruby on Rails
- techno weenie: Structuring your background jobs
- Scout ~ The Blog: Three reasons for Resque (and a Scout Plugin)
- Brightbox Blog: Queues and Callbacks
- Josh Owens is a Rails Freak: Throwing away code
- terrbear.org: Scheduling Jobs with DelayedJob
…...). Patterns are still patterns whether you acknowledge them or not, and they are not defined by the LOC or number of classes they require in language X. I mean, come on, Rails used to have " MVC" and " ActiveRecord" plastered on the website to sell its new web development technique, two patterns ripped right out of P of EAA . Now MVC is a household name. Rails is the ultimate testament that a pattern can be simple to implement in a simple language. Refusing …
- Ruby Inside: IronRuby Q&A - What's Down With Microsoft's Ruby Implementation In 2010?
- Headius: JRuby Startup Time Tips
- igvita.com: Distributed Ruby with the MagLev VM
- Katz Got Your Tongue?: Ruby is NOT a Callable Oriented Language
- Ruby Best Practices: Sexp for Rubyists
- Scottish Ruby Conference: Gold Sponsors - Microsoft
…to 2010!
I won't promise to blog more here now, but at least I'm not blocked by some old software I need to save from bit-rot.
Some trivia on the fork: It went down from 172 LoC to 162 LoC, 65 insertions/73 deletions, which proves my point that every blog has special needs and thus a custom script is worth it. Keeping backwards compatibility (no significant link should be broken) added lots of complexity.
NP: Princeton—Shout It Out
- Hampton Catlin - Home: H8ter
- Diego Carrion: Rails deployment made easy with Inploy
- Programblings: Rubinius for the Layman, Part 1: Rubies All the Way Down
- Litany Against Fear: The many facets of Ruby at AT&T Interactive Notes
- English - AkitaOnRails.com: Rails Podcast Brasil, QCon Special - John Straw (YellowPages.com) and Matt Aimonetti (Merb)
- Dead Programmer Society: LARubyConf 2009 - Blake Mizerany - "Sinatra: the Ultimate Rack Citizen"
…S3 account and you're ready to get started with a web-based jukebox for you and your friends for free .
http://github.com/trevorturk/kzak
Anyway, please feel free to dig around the source code if you're interested in any of this. I think there's a lot of good stuff in there, especially considering that the Ruby portion of the app is clocking in at under ~250 LOC right now. Thanks, open source community ;)
- Dalibor Nasevic: Using Amazon S3 in Rails Applications
- Plataforma Tecnologia Blog: Happy Birthday Devise
- DevInterface Blog: The top 20 plugins to create a Rails application
- Rails Inside: Devise: Flexible Authentication for Pragmatic Rails Developers
- Ruby Fleebie: 5 Plugins Or Gems You Could Not Live Without
- Ruby on Rails, JRuby, AWS, EC2, Exalead - Blog: Ooh la la: Paperclip et les European S3 buckets
Consider one of the old stand-by metrics: LOC (lines of code)
It's not an indicator of quality
Nor is it an indicator of completeness
Another problem: Estimation is difficult
Programmers, by nature, are optimists
You have to be and optimist to do this kind of work! You wouldn't be able if you weren't
"I think rational people could not do programming"
As a result, we're probably the least qualified people to do estimating
What doesn't …
- Vineet Gupta | Computer Programmer: Edge vs. Cloud Computing
- Travis Dunn: Tools of the Trade 2009
- Dead Programmer Society: LARubyConf 2009 - Jim Weirich - "The Grand Unified Thoery of Software Development
- Rails on Edge: Obama to Save Money by Investing in Open Source?
- MySQL Performance Blog: Fast storage: 8 SSD Intel X-25M 80GB benchmarks
- Running & Coding: Erlang made stupid simple for Ruby programmers
…a business then it's interesting how you can handle systems with uncountable LOC without changing behaviour at the other end. But forgive me I forgot that you know your software..right. You are the only one who will ever read your code..sure. It's written in stone,that have to be the ultimate truth and will never ever change..sure,sure.
You are that bitch who's putting the shit together and I'am that guy who have to fix it because it never runs like it should. You use …
- return 42;: JSpec
- How Software is Built: Interview with Daniel Jacobson - Digital Media - National Public Radio
- : High Quality Ruby on Rails Example Applications
- Ajax on Rails: Integration Testing in Ruby on Rails — How to maintain sessions while testing in Rails
- Travis Dunn: iPhone Tech Talk World Tour 2009, Hamburg
- YouTube Videos matching query: rubyonrails: Ruby on Rails - Part 5: AJAX and Testing
…experience on why false passing tests are bad. At change:healthcare we have 19,000 LOC with a 1:2.5 code to test ratio - that doesn't include our custom plugin across shared apps. Even with a full six months of working on the app, doing a major overhaul of the system can be problematic if you don't have good tests. How can you be 100% confident of rolling out your new code when you haven't seen and touched 100% of the app?
At change:healthcare we rely on a robust …
- Rails Envy » Home: Episode 104: Something New
…but just in case, looking at the code is an option to eliminate doubts. The code is quite small (50 LoC moreless) and also self explanatory. Follows an snippet:
def local_setup copy_sample_files create_folders 'tmp/pids' , 'db' run "./ init.sh" if File . exists ? ( " init.sh" ) after_update_code end def remote_update remote_run "cd #{application_path} && rake inploy:local:update" end def local_update run "git pull …
- nano RAILS: development, testing and hosting tidbits - Home: ANN: git-rails
- Me Dev, You Jane: The State of Me - Jan 2009
- Lindsay Holmwood - auxesis' musings: Why scripting your server installs is a bad idea (and configuration management is awesome)
- Developing with Style: CakePHP now available at Github
- Rails Dog: Custom Bash Prompt for Git Branches
- Communicatively Speaking: Welcome Back
…Using CoreAnimation instead of OpenGL, the task wasn't that hard at all. in less than 1,000 LOC (before refactoring), I have a fully working game.
I will be previewing the game at RailsSummit and will show the code and explain how to get there at RubyConf .
When I started getting involved with MacRuby, I really did not think I would write a video game in Ruby and actually enjoy it. At the end of the day, I will more than likely use MacRuby for desktop/mobile/server …
- ricroberts: Blink #3 - 24th October 2009
- Nikos D.: More speed comparisons of Ruby 1.8, Ruby 1.9, JRuby, Rubinius and MacRuby using Graticule
- MacRuby Posts: New Build System, Faster Objective-C Dispatcher, Screencast
- AlternateIdea - Home: MacRuby: The Path Forward
- Headius: On Benchmarking
- very low WTF to LOC ratio (jeremy mcnally's rubyfringe talk)
when?
- a few controllers models and views
- starting any web application
- you need reusable apps and/or middleware and/or resources
- you need speed
who?
- heroku
- github
- taps
- integrity
sinatra in your gems
- a mini-github for offline repo browsing
- a local plugin and play wiki
- memcached utilization graphs
- config reusable github hook
Example: NotTwitter
As classic Sinatra
set …
- Daddy Fixes Everything: Apache Virtual Hosts, Rails, Rack, Passenger on Local Net
- McKinney Station: Deploying Sinatra Apps on Dreamhost
- blog.webandy.com | Andy Atkinson: F1 Webchallenge Team Ruby.mn recap
- Rails Illustrated: Blazing Fast Speeds with Sinatra and Memcached
- Ruby on Rails Podcast: Ryan Tomayko - Ruby on Rails Podcast