Heroku is a great platform. I like the style of the page, I appreciate the documentation and you can start up for free! One thing that I miss a lot is decent caching. The readonly filesystem eats up a lot of flexibility. I played around with HTTP caching and Herokus Varnish works really well. The […]
Month: February 2010
Simple DB caching for Heroku
Writing your own DSL with Ruby
I am a big fan of Ruby. There are so many beautiful libraries out there and most of them are based on some kind of domain specific language. Take builder as an example: Builder::XmlMarkup.new.person { |b| b.name(“Jim”); b.phone(“555-1234”) } #=> Jim555-1234 Generating XML in this manner is pretty cool! There is no crazy XML editor […]