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rack::throttle

tyler — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 19:26:05 +0000

Rack::Throttle – HTTP Request Rate Limiter for Rack Applications. this might come in handy.

eventmachine presentation

tyler — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 03:09:58 +0000

EventMachine: scalable non-blocking i/o in ruby at time to bleed by Joe Damato. definitely a solid primer all about event machine. 114 slides!

redis in practice: who’s online?

tyler — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 21:30:38 +0000

Luke Melia » Redis in Practice: Who’s Online?. very cool writeup. I had no idea redis could do union operations like that.

mongoid

tyler — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 15:45:44 +0000

Mongoid. another mongo/ruby library. similar syntax to activerecord.

noSQL with mySQL in ruby – friendly

tyler — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 16:38:55 +0000

NoSQL with MySQL in Ruby – Friendly. takes the FriendFeed approach of serializing to json in a single column and using seperate tables to build indexes. there’s a write-up on the author’s website with quite a few question/comments.

building a twitter filter with sinatra, redis, and tweetStream

tyler — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 14:21:55 +0000

Building a Twitter Filter With Sinatra, Redis, and TweetStream. from the title you’d think the article was just autogenerated from popular words on a bunch of ruby rss feeds.

futureRuby

tyler — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 20:57:50 +0000

RubyFringe presents… FutureRuby. unspace will be hosting another conference this summer. you would be foolish to miss it.

golden gate ruby conference

tyler — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 17:17:39 +0000

Golden Gate Ruby Conference. unspace shall be there.

tokyo cabinet: beyond key-value store

tyler — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 21:34:49 +0000

Tokyo Cabinet: Beyond Key-Value Store – igvita.com. another crazy article from iilya.

ip to location in rails

tyler — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 17:12:19 +0000

Hungry Machine: Super fast IP to lat/lng in Rails – Part 2. also has city and country relations.

JS.Class

tyler — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 16:27:32 +0000

JS.Class – Ruby-style JavaScript. interesting.

rails perf tuning

tyler — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 12:34:11 +0000

Rails: Performance Tuning Workflow. this is timely, i was doing this 2 nights ago. it’s a shame the output for ruby-prof is so verbose. via jeff.

ruby enumerable chunk

tyler — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 16:46:54 +0000

Handy Ruby Enumerable extension for “chunking”. turn an array into X chunks. Rails has a patch for this but if you’re not on edge (or using rails) this is a lot simpler to drop-in.

neverblock

tyler — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 18:06:19 +0000

NeverBlock. co-routines for ruby. requires ruby 1.9.

when grownups do open source

tyler — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 18:04:31 +0000

Hadoop: When grownups do open source | The Register. that’s probably the best thing i’ve ever read about programming.

frankie goes to facebook

tyler — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 14:01:59 +0000

Frankie Goes To Facebook. 1 gem install, 18 lines of ruby, 2 lines of config, a couple clicks on facebook, and i have an authenticated hello world app.

rubyfringejazz

tyler — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 16:23:49 +0000

rubyfringejazz.muxtape.com. Nick Sieger did a talk at rubyfringe about the evolution of jazz and how it relates to ruby. this is the muxtape of what he played.

sinatra and datamapper

tyler — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 13:35:53 +0000

zerosum dirt(nap) – Clone Pastie with Sinatra & DataMapper 0.9. i’m very eager to try and make some simple app with sinatra and datamapper.

being lazy with ruby

tyler — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 19:08:13 +0000

Astrails – Being Lazy with Ruby. lazy evals for expensive calls in ruby.

expectations

tyler — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 03:47:20 +0000

James on Software: Gems I’ve Known and Loved #1: Expectations. interesting ruby testing framework.