I just changed jobs and am now a Rails developer at tolingo.com, which is an online translation broker. When I started out working on my new desk, I had to setup my iMac development environment. There are tons of articles of how to compile/install/run stuff like MySQL, to get you started on OS X, but […]
Tag: Ruby
Using the Redis addon on Heroku
I am always playing around with new addons offered by Heroku. My latest discovery was the Redis addon that is provided by Redistogo. The addon is probably in private beta (docs are still on beta), but since they put up a link to it on their site, I managed to install it to my personal […]
Mongo Ruby Driver, Mongoid and MongoMapper
============================================================= ============================================================= Update Aug. 2010 On Whyday, I created a live demo of the examples, that is running on Heroku. =========================================================== =========================================================== I am constantly looking around for different storage mechanisms on Heroku that can be used for caching 3rd party data. A recent update of their platform offered an MongoDB addon to access the […]
Ruby in Java, Java in Ruby, JRuby or Ruby Java Bridge?
Hosting (J)Rails applications on a high availability Java infrastructure with clusters, loadbalancers and all that shit stuff is great, if you already have it in place. But does running an app on the JRE make it a JRuby application by default? Do you really want to be stuck on JRuby? I really like the idea […]
noSQL – Rails models with SOAP
Using a DB is a natural thing for a Rails developer. Since Rails is a database driven application framework, that does not come as a big surprise. But there are times where environmental constraints do not allow the freedom to use the weapon of choice… Imagine a legacy Java SOA landscape that provides tons of […]