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Ruby 1.9 Fibers + EventMachine for Big Ruby Webapp Performance Gains

Developers hankering for more performance from their Rack and Rails applications are using Ruby 1.9 fibers and event-based EventMachine-driven libraries as a way to boost the performance of their applications - in opposition to scaling by merely running multiple processes or using threads.

Faye: Simple Pub/Sub Messaging for the Web (and Ruby!)

http://faye.jcoglan.com/Faye is an easy-to-use publish-subscribe messaging system based on the Bayeux protocol. It provides message servers for Node.js and Rack, and clients for use in Node and Ruby programs and in the browser.James Coglan

Fog: A Powerful “Cloud Services” Gem

fog is a Ruby gem by Wesley Beary to control a variety of cloud services through a unified API. It deals with both server cloud and storage based services and supports Amazon S3 and Rackspace Files; as well as servers and on Amazon EC2, Rackspace Servers, Terremark vCloud and Slicehost. Support is also available for Amazon ELB and SimpleDB.

Celebrate Why The Lucky Stiff By Letting Loose on Whyday (August 19, 2010)

http://whyday.org/
This year, on August 19, celebrate Whyday. Set aside that day to remember Why's contributions to our community and culture by hacking just for the fun and joy of it.Glenn Vanderburg

RubyConf X Announced: New Orleans, November 11-13, 2010

http://rubyconf.org/
The tenth RubyConf has been announced. It'll be in New Orleans, LA between November 11-13, 2010. You can't register yet, but there's a button to book a room at the official hotel.

Interesting Ruby and Rails Tidbits #31

The latest installment of our series of roundup posts, covering some of our latest findings in the world of all things Ruby (or not). These items wouldn't make it in as separate posts, but they should be of enough interest to Rubyists generally to make it a worthwhile browse for most readers.

The Why, What, and How of Rubinius 1.0’s Release

Rubinius or GitHub repo, an alternative Ruby implementation that's built in Ruby itself - as much as possible, has this last weekend hit the coding equivalent of a Bar Mitzvah..

8 Ruby and Rails Jobs for May 2010

Need a new Ruby or Rails job? They're getting posted daily on jobs.rubynow.com but we've got 8 special ones of our own that have come in via the Ruby Inside jobs board. Jobs this month come from the United Kingdom and the US and, as is proving typical, are Rails heavy.

JRuby 1.5.0 Released: The Best Alternative Ruby Implementation Gets Even Better

Following on five months after the release of the popular JRuby 1.4, the JRuby team have delivered JRuby 1.5!

Book Promotion: The Joy of Clojure

Book Promotion: The Joy of Clojure
RubyLearning is pleased to announce the promotion of the book “The Joy of Clojure” by author Michael Fogus and Chris Houser. The general idea of a book promotion is that it gives the participants a chance to ask relevant questions, interact with the author of the book and in the process possibly win a copy of the book, all for free!

ruby script/plugin git does not work in Rails 2.3.2 and Ruby 1.9 | Rails Fire

ruby script/plugin git does not work in Rails 2.3.2 and Ruby 1.9

Lots of people are scratching there head over why they cannot
install rails plugins using git.

I'm working with Ruby 1.9.1 and Rails 2.3.2. And git is a pretty natural
for working with version control.

So I wanted to pull from my own respository, but kept getting
a error on tryping to do the install.

sin-gwest-laptop:testjq gwest$ ruby script/plugin --verbose install git://github.com/glennswest/activejquery.git
Plugins will be installed using http
Plugin not found: ["git://github.com/glennswest/activejquery.git"]
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Come to find out, this is a known but as the mkdir_p call has changed its
return parameter in Ruby 1.9 and that messes up the install of git plugins
unless you do the patch

https://rails.lighthouseapp.com/attachments/90768/plugin_mkdir_p.diff

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