Amon
february 2012 by al3x
"a self-hosted, lightweight web application and server monitoring toolkit. It provides you with straightforward visualisation of essential server data. It helps you manage the errors that occur in your web applications and makes logging complex datastructures and searching in your log data easy"
monitoring
server
logging
dashboard
ruby
node
february 2012 by al3x
Foreman
january 2012 by al3x
Manage web applications with complex dependencies using Procfiles. Spit out initrc files and the like to put into production.
ruby
deployment
development
devops
january 2012 by al3x
repl.it
september 2011 by al3x
Web-based REPLs for various languages.
javascript
programming
python
repl
ruby
september 2011 by al3x
elixir
march 2011 by al3x
"a programming language built on top of Erlang. [...] The main difference between Elixir and Erlang is syntax and object orientation. Elixir provides a very simple Object Model based on prototype languages with most of its syntax based on Ruby."
erlang
ruby
github
opensource
language
march 2011 by al3x
The MessagePack Project
march 2010 by al3x
"a binary-based efficient object serialization library. It enables to exchange structured objects between many languages like JSON. But unlike JSON, it is very fast and small."
json
library
ruby
python
perl
haskell
serialization
march 2010 by al3x
Why Why Functional Programming Matters Matters
may 2009 by al3x
"The great insight is that better programs separate concerns."
ruby
functional
programming
may 2009 by al3x
Ruby 1.9 compatibility: a three step ladder to bliss
april 2009 by al3x
Good overview of what it takes to bring Ruby 1.8.x code up to snuff for Ruby 1.9.
ruby
ruby1.9
programming
howto
april 2009 by al3x
Google App Engine for Java with Rich Ruby clients
april 2009 by al3x
Great post. Talks about the big picture of developing on Google's cloud, but also the particulars.
appengine
ruby
java
cloud
april 2009 by al3x
Reia - A New Dynamic Language on the Erlang VM
march 2009 by al3x
Pity about the dynamism.
ruby
erlang
reia
programming
concurrency
language
interview
march 2009 by al3x
Integrity
january 2009 by al3x
"The easy and fun automated continuous integration server." Delivers build notifications to Twitter and Campfire, amongst other endpoints.
continuousintegration
testing
ruby
campfire
twitter
january 2009 by al3x
Kick-ass Queuing for Ruby: using RabbitMQ over amqp
october 2008 by al3x
Hell yes. That's what a queue API should look like.
ruby
messaging
amqp
rabbitmq
october 2008 by al3x
Ruby’s not ready
april 2008 by al3x
A surprisingly level-headed criticism of Ruby from someone in the Python world. Know your tools.
python
ruby
comparison
april 2008 by al3x
RightScale AWS Gems
march 2008 by al3x
"robust, fast, and secure Ruby interfaces to Amazon EC2, Amazon S3, Amazon SQS, and Amazon SDB". Uses libxml if available.
aws
ec2
s3
ruby
gem
march 2008 by al3x
Scout
march 2008 by al3x
Monitoring and reporting with a Ruby/Rails bent. Not yet launched.
ruby
rails
monitoring
march 2008 by al3x
StrokeDB
march 2008 by al3x
"an embeddable distributed document database written in Ruby". Kinda wigs me out a little bit, not sure why.
ruby
database
march 2008 by al3x
CruiseControl Progress Charts
march 2008 by al3x
"CruiseControl.rb is an elegant Continuous Integration dashboard for Ruby projects. This article shows how to call the RoR command “rake stats” once per build, capture the results, and chart them to track trends over time."
rails
ruby
testing
continuousIntegration
visualization
march 2008 by al3x
TwitterBot
february 2008 by al3x
A nice Engrish tutorial on building a Jabber bot for Twitter.
jabber
ruby
twitter
tutorial
february 2008 by al3x
Custom Textile
february 2008 by al3x
"You can subclass RedCloth and add methods that define your own tags."
ruby
textile
tip
february 2008 by al3x
Merborials
february 2008 by al3x
"a series of screencasts and mini tutorials that I am creating as I am attempting to learn the the Merb framework"
web
ruby
framework
merb
screencasts
tutorial
february 2008 by al3x
Conveyor
february 2008 by al3x
"a distributed virtual queue-like system"
ruby
http
queue
distributed
february 2008 by al3x
Monkeypatching is Destroying Ruby
february 2008 by al3x
I don't know about "destroying", but it can make for some serious PITA. Open classes are good, but language designers will take 'em away if we don't use 'em right.
ruby
programming
via:coda
february 2008 by al3x
#153325 by Erik Kastner (kastner) - Pastie
february 2008 by al3x
"small blog engine with XMLRPC, hAtom and S3 upload (through xlmrpc) support". If Blogger ever starts to do me wrong, this is a good (re)starting point.
ruby
blog
s3
snippet
february 2008 by al3x
Dynamite
february 2008 by al3x
"Dynamite is a Ruby interface to the Processing graphics API." Now I can stomach working in Processing!
ruby
jruby
processing
visualization
february 2008 by al3x
Gem RDoc on Leopard
february 2008 by al3x
Actually, when I tried this with Lingon it never seemed to take.
ruby
mac
leopard
launchd
february 2008 by al3x
Valgrind and Ruby
february 2008 by al3x
Some day I will have to do this for something.
ruby
memory
valgrind
c
optimization
tutorial
february 2008 by al3x
assert{ 2.0 }
february 2008 by al3x
Yeah, I'd like this. Not all the time, but sometimes.
ruby
testing
february 2008 by al3x
Rack RESTful Dispatcher
february 2008 by al3x
Result: Ruby classes that can become web services with the simple addition of get/post/put/delete/etc. methods.
ruby
rest
rack
web
february 2008 by al3x
Book Review: Writing Efficient Ruby Code
january 2008 by al3x
I can also recommend this book. It's got suggestions and the numbers to back 'em up.
ruby
book
review
performance
january 2008 by al3x
ShootingStar
january 2008 by al3x
A Ruby Comet server: "Our goal is development of practical comet server which will be achieving over 100,000 simultaneous connections per host. On this purpose, we abandon portability and use system calls depending on particular OS such as epoll and kqueu
ruby
comet
http
server
event
january 2008 by al3x
Revactor
january 2008 by al3x
"Actors rule. You really should use them in your programs. Especially if your programs do a lot of stuff at once. Seriously, whatever you’re doing besides Actors, it probably sucks."
ruby
actor
concurrency
library
network
january 2008 by al3x
_evan's c-wrapping memcache client
january 2008 by al3x
One of several current attempts to speed up the Ruby memcache client.
c
client
memcached
ruby
performance
january 2008 by al3x
spec-converter
january 2008 by al3x
I suppose I should convert to specs at some point.
ruby
testing
rspec
january 2008 by al3x
SWIG, Ruby, and libjsw
january 2008 by al3x
"serves as a nice illustration of some of SWIG’s basic features"
ruby
swig
c
tutorial
january 2008 by al3x
[ANN] Ebb Web Server
january 2008 by al3x
"written in C, makes use of the Mongrel HTTP parser, and uses libev its event loop". Looks a bit like Thin, but could potentially host more than just Ruby apps.
mongrel
ruby
http
wsgi
january 2008 by al3x
A Hello World for Ruby on Ragel
january 2008 by al3x
"Ragel is a very powerful state machine compiler and parser generator"
ruby
ragel
statemachine
parser
tutorial
january 2008 by al3x
ruby-debug in 30 seconds
january 2008 by al3x
Dive right in to debugging a Ruby/Rails app.
ruby
debugging
howto
january 2008 by al3x
skynet
january 2008 by al3x
"an open source Ruby implementation of Google’s Map/Reduce framework". Includes some Rails helpers, etc.
ruby
rails
concurrency
january 2008 by al3x
PragDave: Pipelines Using Fibers in Ruby 1.9
january 2008 by al3x
"A fiber is somewhat like a thread, except you have control over when it gets scheduled."
ruby
concurrency
tip
january 2008 by al3x
Rev
december 2007 by al3x
"a high performance event library for Ruby 1.9"
ruby
gem
asynchronous
event
december 2007 by al3x
Async Observer
december 2007 by al3x
A very elegant way of performing asynchronous tasks from Rails. Certainly easier than writing a daemon... something to consider for Starling.
rails
ruby
asynchronous
distributed
plugin
december 2007 by al3x
A Use of the Y Combinator in Ruby
december 2007 by al3x
I love shit like this: autovivication of hashes via the Y combinator. Check out zenspider's super clean, Lisp-bullshit-free implementation at the bottom.
ruby
functional
programming
tip
december 2007 by al3x
Beanstalkd
december 2007 by al3x
Sort of like Twitter's own as-yet-unreleased Starling, but it has its own protocol rather than speaking memcache's.
distributed
concurrency
ruby
messaging
queue
december 2007 by al3x
Ye Newbyes Gyde to Routing in Merb
november 2007 by al3x
cool shit that Merb's routing can do
merb
ruby
routing
november 2007 by al3x
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