Rails Envy Podcast - Episode #078: 05/14/2009

Episode 78. Another great episode of Ruby/Rails News. FYI, sorry the

Rails Envy Podcast - Episode #078: 05/14/2009

by Jason on May 14, 2009

Episode 78. Another great episode of Ruby/Rails News. FYI, sorry the audio quality is a little off this week, but hopefully we'll be back up to par next week.

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  • Nimble Method: The future of Rails is Ruby 1.9 - real performance of 1.8, JRuby and 1.9 compared
  • API Throttling Middleware
      • Tokyo Cache Cow
    • Tokyo Cabinet: Beyond Key-Value Store - igvita.com
    • joshbuddy's tokyo_cache_cow at master - GitHub
  • libcraigscrape - Craigslist Scraping
  • Delocalize Plugin for Rails
  • A better progress meter for your Ruby Scripts
  • Http in Ruby with Typhoeus
  • Ruby Toolbox
      • Melt Your Brain!
    • XMPP4R: XMPP/Jabber Library for Ruby
    • tmm1's amqp at master - GitHub
    • ezmobius's nanite at master - GitHub
    • Write a 32-line chat client using Ruby, AMQP & EventMachine (and a GUI using Shoes)
  • Github Pages for Fun and Win
  • Maptimize Google Map Helper
  • Spree Open Source Cart 0.8.0 Released
  • Spree 0.8 released
  • Blue Ridge Javascript Testing Framework from Relevance
 

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Julien – May 14, 2009 @ 12:44 PM

Hoooo, nooooo, don’t push people toward Xmpp4r! It is not scalable at all! It uses a bloathed Thread based architecture… and fails with even a pretty small “load” in terms of stanzas/sec!

That is why libs such as Babylon or Blather (see Github for both) have been created ;)


Kenneth Kalmer – May 16, 2009 @ 04:17 PM

Good one on the XMPP vs AMQP comparison, I covered this in a recent blog post as well and it got some awesome comments from both XMPP and AMQP advocates. Available at http://www.opensourcery.co.za/2009/04/19/to-amqp-or-to-xmpp-that-is-the-question/


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