Articles tagged ruby-on-rails:

A Multithreaded Job Queue For Ruby (on Rails)

Tags: job queue, load balancing, mysql, ruby on rails
Posted 539 days ago.

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 1562 days ago.

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.

RubyRobot Theme for Textmate

Tags: mac os x, ruby on rails, textmate
Posted 1798 days ago.

A color theme for my favourite text editor Textmate. Easy on the eye and optimized for working with Ruby on Rails, HTML, PHP and Javascript files. Colors appear a bit too bright with Safari in the screenshots, but that seems to be the old color profile guessing issue.

Ruby on Rails

Ruby on Rails 1.2 Released

Tags: ruby on rails
Posted 1842 days ago.

It's there finally: Ruby on Rails 1.2 as been announced today. Read all about it in the official announcement on the Rails weblog. Go to the cpanel in your webhost to check it out. I have upgraded Rails on my development box and everything runs smooth so far.

General Help

Tags: ruby, rubygems, ruby on rails, subversion, wget
Posted 1872 days ago.

Wherever on this site you see a box like this with text in a monospaced font, it means you will have to open a terminal window and type the text after the dollar sign ($) in your terminal:

$ echo "Hello world"

Some software you are likely to need:

Apache 2.2 With Load Balancing For Mongrel + Ruby on Rails

Tags: apache, deployment, load balancing, mongrel, php, ruby on rails
Posted 1899 days ago.

You would like to set up a Mongrel cluster for your Rails application, running on top of Apache 2.2 with fancy load balancing enabled, but your Linux distro features only an older version of Apache?

This article will take you through compiling the software for yourself. Just make sure you have all the tools installed, such as a C-Compiler and GNU make. If you are unsure what to install, look for a meta-package called "Devel" or "Development", that will install all the necessary packages for you.