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Thin: A Ruby HTTP Daemon That’s Faster Than Mongrel
Thin is a new Web server / daemon written in Ruby by Marc-André Cournoyer that uses the EventMachine, Rack, and Mongrel libraries. EventMachine makes it super fast at processing network I/O, Rack makes it easy to integrate with existing Ruby Web app frameworks, and Mongrel helps it parse HTTP. So, yes, the title is slightly [...]
Startrek.com Shutting Down
Oh my! Bad news! Startrek.com is shutting down! I’ve been around Startrek.com quite often to check up on my favourite characters and learn more about the great Star Trek universe. If there is an online petition to keep the site up and running, I’d sign it!
Curlsman writes to let us know that the fan site [...]
RSpec 1.1 Released: Now Supports Rails 2.0
The team behind RSpec, a Behavior-Driven Development based “testing” library, have announced the release of RSpec 1.1.0. This will be of particular interest to Rails 2.0 developers as support has now been added, along with interoperability with Test::Unit. RSpec 1.1 also includes a Rails tool called “RailsStory” that allows you write “user stories” that can [...]
phpBB 3.0 has been released!
Close to 6 years after the release of phpBB 2.0, we are given a new version which includes an enormous number of new features, tightened security, extensive bug fixes, optimisation for mobile devices and search engines, and remains free under the GPL.
You can view the feature changes from 2.0 to 3.0 here. Most notable changes [...]
Flickr Adds Stats To Photo Pro Accounts
Flickr has provided an attractive place to show off your photos and get constructive feedback from the community. However, their advanced comment and tagging system leaves out the vast number of people that simply peruse the site. But today Flickr unlocked those stats for Pro users.
Earlier this year Flickr whetted our appetite for stats when [...]
Installing and Configuring Nginx and Rails on Ubuntu
James O’Kelly has put together a comprehensive tutorial going through all of the stages necessary to install and configure Nginx and Rails together to run applications on an Ubuntu server. James’ blog RailsJitsu.com is definitely worth a look (and perhaps to subscribe to!) as he seems to have a knack for regularly putting together good [...]
Faker: Quick “Fake Data” Generation in Ruby
I love finding a library that does exactly what it claims to do, and does it in the simplest way possible. Faker by Ben Curtis is a Ruby library, packaged as a Ruby Gem, that generates “fake data” for you, in the form of names, telephone number, e-mail addresses, addresses, and so forth.
For example:
Faker::Name.name [...]
Fresh New Ruby Implementation Benchmarks: So Who’s Fastest?
Almost a year ago, Antonio Cangiano performed some benchmarks on the then present Ruby implementations: Ruby 1.8.5, YARV (now Ruby 1.9), JRuby, Ruby.NET, Rubinius and Cardinal. The results were that YARV, although nowhere near ready for production use, was streets ahead of Ruby 1.8, and the other implementations raised enough errors to still be considered [...]
First Beta of Firefox 3 Now Available
Firefox 3 Beta 1 is based on the new Gecko 1.9 Web rendering platform, which has been under development for the past 27 months and includes nearly 2 million lines of code changes, fixing more than 11,000 issues. Gecko 1.9 includes some major re-architecting for performance, stability, correctness, and code simplification and sustainability.
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