A Multithreaded Job Queue For Ruby (on Rails)

Tags: job queue, load balancing, mysql, ruby on rails
Posted 15. August 2010.

I have a Ruby on Rails application with a rapidly growing database of currently 50,000 jobs per day to be executed. Each jobs fetches data over the internet and takes about 1-10 seconds to execute. These tasks are scheduled for specific times and should be executed with as little delay as possible. Read more ... (1380 words) 3 Comments.

Deploying Rails (2.0) to Mongrel with Capistrano 2.1

Tags: capistrano, mongrel, ruby on rails
Posted 26. October 2007.

Capistrano 2.1 includes some major improvements over the 1.x branch, so everyone should start using it right away. Yet it doesn't work with Mongrel out of the box and it's most likely not backwards compatible with your old deploy recipes. Since there is no official documentation on how to get going with Rails and Mongrel, I put together these instructions.

A MySQL Abstraction Class For PHP

Tags: database abstraction, mysql, pear, php
Posted 31. December 2006.

Over the time I have been working with PHP, I built a library of useful classes for my projects. I have always wanted to publish this library freely. It will take some time to clean up the code base and comments, but if someone has use for it, then I will be glad to do it.