joshuago’s ruby_on_rails Bookmarks

The issue of pre-loading needed data for a Rails application has always been somewhat confusing and difficult.

What makes libraries so special? They save time and effort by providing code you don’t want to write. Skip the nitty gritty of this authentication scheme or that request protocol and get on with the task at hand. There are many ways for a library to capture wily domain knowledge and not all are created equal.

Unicorn is a HTTP server for Rack applications designed to only serve fast clients on low-latency, high-bandwidth connections and take advantage of features in Unix/Unix-like kernels. Slow clients should only be served by placing a reverse proxy capable of fully buffering both the the request and response in between Unicorn and slow clients.

A simple introduction to using PStore, a built-in key/value store that comes with Ruby.

A chronicle of work done on improving asynchronicity in Ruby and reduce blocking behavior.