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Rails and Merb Merge: The Anniversary (Part 1 of 6)

A year ago today, we announced that Rails and Merb would merge. At the time, there was much skepticism about the likelihood of the success of this endeavor. Indeed, The most common imagery invoked by those who learned about our plans was a unicorn.

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CouchDB

CouchDB d'Apache est une base de données distribuée, sans schéma et orientée document accessible via une API REST HTTP/JSON.

Les bases

CouchDB est un serveur de base de données orienté document, accessible via une API JSON REST utilisant le langage Javascript comme interface. CouchDB est une base de données non relationnelle, non orientée objet qui va dans le sens contraire de celui des conventions Rails: la structure de données ORM. CouchDB n'a pas pour but de remplacer ActiveRecord ou n'imp…

Shared MySQL improvements

Over the last few weeks we’ve been working on scaling our shared MySQL facilities. Until recently, we’ve been able to run a single (albeit hefty) shared MySQL cluster but due to growing demand we’ve needed to scale this up considerably. The main cluster has had some performance problems recently and, while some tuning and vertical scaling bought us some time (we more than doubled the resources of the main cluster), the real focus has been on horizontal scaling.

GMail on Engine Yard

Jump to the end of this if you just want the solution I found, the rest of this includes the trials and errors that didn't work, but may help someone find this page.We have an application on Engine Yard that is configured to use GMail to send email. Everything works fine in development, but in production, we get the following error:Net::SMTPUnknownError (530 5.7.0 Must issue a STARTTLS command

iPhone Views I

Co-authored by Alex Vollmer, author of the Evri iPhone app and the PeepCode Screencast on MacRuby.

Whether or not you watched our first iPhone Screencasts, you’ll be able to jump straight into iPhone views in this screencast.

Rails single-sign-on with rubyCAS

As our rails apps multiply, we began looking for a single-sign-on solution - to give some sense of a seamless 'application' to our users.

Apache x-sendfile module for Ubuntu Hardy

We’ve just added Caspar Clemens Mierau’s package for the Apache x-sendfile module to our Ubuntu Hardy package repositories, so now it’s trivially easy for Brightbox customers to start using it. We’ve also built an AMD64 version too.  Just install the package, enable it and reload Apache:

Ruby & WebSockets: TCP for the Browser

WebSockets are one of the most underappreciated innovations in HTML5. Unlike local storage, canvas, web workers, or even video playback, the benefits of the WebSocket API are not immediately apparent to the end user.

Aleksey Gureiev Winner RPCFN #4

In this brief interview, Satish Talim of RubyLearning talks to Aleksey Gureiev of Ukraine, winner of the fourth Ruby Programming Challenge For Newbies.

Aleksey Gureiev

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