Rails Envy Podcast - Episode #010: 12/12/2017
by g on Dec 12, 2017
Episode 10. We're back from a week off, and chock full of useful news from the Ruby and Rails world.
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In this episode:
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Rails 2.0
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Upgrading to Rails 2.0
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Iphone on Rails Tutorial
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Rubyconf Videos
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Merb Framework Walkthrough
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Merb-tastic
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The Great Ruby Shootout
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Metaprogramming in Ruby with Dave Thomas
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RSS to Campfire Script
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Setting up Rails with Git
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Google Chart API
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Multi-Rails Plugin
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SVNMate
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CocoaTech Textmate Finder Replacement
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HTML 5 Preview
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Advanced Rails Recipes
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Faker Gem
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QuietBackTrace Gem
Ferret Update - Since this podcast we have gotten feedback about Ferret working successfully in production environments, so perhaps us just ran into some fluke problems.
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I do like your podcasts :)
Ferret sux truly. Sphinx is the only way to fly ;)
In this episode:
This podcast was awesome.
Would you elaborate on / point to the issues you’ve experienced with ferret? Any other viable alternative?
Henry - Index corruption was the biggest problem. Solr and sphinx are great alternatives.
Slash dot dash dot slash dot dash has an article on Ferret… nah not really.
Well, I do have a Rails app using Ferret and yes index corruption can happen if you’re not careful. There was one time one of the developers was updating the index far too quickly and the index got corrupted. We’re using Ferret DRB Server from actsasferret (but not using actsas_ferret itself) to centralize requests to the index.
Still, it could be due to some misconfiguration on our part, and for most of our purposes it works fine in production (though we’re keen to port our indexed document store to CouchDB) - not gonna bash Ferret especially since I’ve yet to contribute back to the open source efort!
I did end up wroting a nice Ruby wrapper for Google Chart API, check it out:”
@Chu: No article on Ferret, but I did one on Sphinx instead. I had similar index corruption issues when using ferret (with acts_as_ferret), since switching to Sphinx I’ve had no such problems.
I really laughed at this podcast, thanks guys! Keep up the good work
At least the burb wasn’t juicy ;-) Thanks for the podcast! Truly appreciated.
First off, great podcast.
On to the point, I’ve successfully used Ferret on a couple of sites. One successful one is running a cluster of 8 mongrel servers and gets about a million hits a month. It uses Ferret via drb and I’ve never had a problem with corruption, etc. Aside from annoyances with writing my own search term parser to actually get what I want, it’s been great.
Of course, now you’ve got me all freaked out that it’s a house of cards and I need to do something else. So thanks for that.
Great podcast. Just found your website and it’s great !
The company I work for currently has a system which I wrote that uses Ferret based on your guides. Its working quite reliably though I did have some hiccups before I realized I needed to use a DRb server for production.
In the process of overhauling that application now though and looking to use Sphinx instead. But your guide and ferret itself have certainly done us a good service.
I love SVNMate!
Guys,
Just a heads up on gitosis. Not sure if you will think it is appropriate for the podcast, but I found it super useful and git has some momentum (twice mentioned by you guys I believe?). Basically it makes it really easy to set up a secure git server. Without it, setting up git truly sucks ferret balls.