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New Relic

nicholasjon@nicholasjon.com (Nick) — Thu, 01 May 2008 13:46:48 GMT

A whole company forms around the idea of Ruby on Rails scalability. I’m hoping a lot of neat stuff comes from this.

Link: http://www.newrelic.com/

RoR vs Java

nicholasjon@nicholasjon.com (Nick) — Mon, 14 May 2007 20:16:50 GMT

Remind me to don my flame-retardant suit before going to work in the morning.

(I simply love the bear-in-the-jar standing in for Hibernate.)

Scaling Rails via Twitter

nicholasjon@nicholasjon.com (Nick) — Sun, 15 Apr 2007 16:14:42 GMT

The Twitter folk aren’t pleased with Rails scalability.

DHH points out the way their app was configured it was never really going to scale anyway, and that they certainly could improve their performance with more caching and more database servers. He does end on a sort of Rails is open source, you can always fix it yourself note, which is a little disingenuine.

Brian McCallister responds to the whole thing with I think the best perspective of all.

Update: Problem solved. (Dr Nic to the rescue.)

Update: And again. (This looks really promising.)

Update: And again. (Dr Nic again — he’s good.)

Joyent Slingshot

nicholasjon@nicholasjon.com (Nick) — Sat, 24 Mar 2007 08:17:40 GMT

Build offline-syncable web apps for Windows and OSX in Ruby.

Link: http://joyeur.com/2007/03/22/joyent-slingshot

Updating Rubygems

nicholasjon@nicholasjon.com (Nick) — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 05:24:03 GMT

Here’s how I updated my MacBook Pro from Rails 1.2.1 to Rails 1.2.3:

sudo gem update --system
sudo mv /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/source_cache ~/tmp
mv ~/.gem/ ~/tmp/
gem sources
sudo gem install rails --include-dependencies

Those five lines of code took about an hour and some serious Googling to figure out. Ah well, back to work.

Update: You may (probably will) get an error after you run “sudo gem install rails—include-dependencies”. I’m not sure exactly why, but running the same command again will finally update your Rails install. Anyone with a better solution should feel free to pop a comment down below.

Ruby and MySQL on Ubuntu

nicholasjon@nicholasjon.com (Nick) — Sat, 20 Jan 2007 07:54:34 GMT

When installing Ruby, Rails, and MySQL on Ubuntu remember the following when you get to the database part and you’ll be fine:


apt-get install mysql-server 
apt-get install mysql-client
apt-get install libmysqlclient15-dev
gem install mysql -- --with-mysql-dir=/usr/bin --with-mysql-config=/usr/bin/mysql_config

I always forget the development libraries, and that makes compiling the native Ruby bindings difficult to say the least.

Inline RJS

nicholasjon@nicholasjon.com (Nick) — Fri, 12 Jan 2007 20:12:00 GMT

For when a “whole ‘nother file” just seems like a waste

Link: http://weblog.jamisbuck.org/2007/1/10/inline-rjs

Why Ruby?

nicholasjon@nicholasjon.com (Nick) — Thu, 11 Jan 2007 19:07:08 GMT

There’s a contest at ‘On Ruby’ to write the best article about how Ruby has made you a better developer. Though I consider it to be way to self-congratulatory for its own good — approaching the sort of fanboyism that puts Ruby developers in the same category as religious zealots — do feel an obligation to admit that Ruby really has made me a better programmer.

Rather than ramble on about PHP, Javascript and the way I used to code, let me just explain why I think I’m a better developer because of Ruby like so: Ruby rewards me for doing things the way I ought to do them, and once I’ve done things the right way it is very difficult for me to slip back into my old habits regardless of language.

HAML: HTML abstraction

nicholasjon@nicholasjon.com (Nick) — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 20:31:12 GMT

I don’t have a grasp for whether or not this is a good thing — I tend to like writing “the language that I’m writing” when I’m working

Link: http://dev.hamptoncatlin.com/haml

Streamlined

nicholasjon@nicholasjon.com (Nick) — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 20:31:25 GMT

Ajax-based scaffolding for Rails

Link: http://streamlined.relevancellc.com/

Leopard to ship with Ruby on Rails

nicholasjon@nicholasjon.com (Nick) — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 20:31:44 GMT

Not bad for a two year old framework

Link: http://www.apple.com/server/macosx/leopard/more.html

How to write an "acts as" plugin in Ruby on Rails

nicholasjon@nicholasjon.com (Nick) — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 20:31:43 GMT

I’ve always wondered

Link: http://wiki.rubyonrails.org/rails/pages/HowToWriteAnActsAsFoxPlugin

AssetPackager

nicholasjon@nicholasjon.com (Nick) — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 20:31:19 GMT

Compress CSS and JS files for production apps

Link: http://synthesis.sbecker.net/pages/asset_packager

Camping, a Microframework

nicholasjon@nicholasjon.com (Nick) — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 20:31:29 GMT

When you don’t need “everything” that is Rails, go Camping

Link: http://code.whytheluckystiff.net/camping/

Rails developers: Use params, not @params

nicholasjon@nicholasjon.com (Nick) — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 20:31:24 GMT

I’m guilty in the worst way — I’ve been doing about half with @ and half without with no real logic

Link: http://weblog.rubyonrails.com/articles/2006/04/25/use-params-not-params

DHH in CRN

nicholasjon@nicholasjon.com (Nick) — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 20:31:12 GMT

Anil Dash: “Blue Steel!” Too true.

Link: http://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=124362649&context=photostream&size=l

Rails 1.1

nicholasjon@nicholasjon.com (Nick) — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 20:31:34 GMT

Lots of new stuff

Link: http://weblog.rubyonrails.com/articles/2006/03/28/rails-1-1-rjs-active-record-respond_to-integration-tests-and-500-other-things

Rails for Designers

nicholasjon@nicholasjon.com (Nick) — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 20:31:27 GMT

A write up of the “V” in Rails’s MVC

Link: http://glu.ttono.us/articles/2006/03/21/rails-for-designers

SwitchTower is now Capistrano

nicholasjon@nicholasjon.com (Nick) — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 20:31:07 GMT

For crying out loud, I just figured out how to use the damn thing and now they go and change the name to something which evokes the image of Jack Benny singing about swallows… but I’m the only person under 80 who thinks of stuff like that

Link: http://weblog.rubyonrails.com/articles/2006/03/06/switchtower-is-now-capistrano