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 […]
Tag: Ruby
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") } #=> <person><name>Jim</name><phone>555-1234</phone></person> Generating XML in this manner is pretty cool! There is no crazy XML editor […]
Buildr – The build system that doesn’t suck
If you are a Java guy like me, you are probably doing a lot of ugly tasks in your everday work. One of these tasks is build management. The Java community tries to tackle builds with standard tools like Ant and “all-in-one” solutions like Maven. Both are based on huge XML configuration files that are […]