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Browser Based Push Notifications with Mongrel2 and EventSource

By | Published: January 4, 2011
One of the interesting things about Mongrel2 is its ability to send output to multiple clients with a single handler message. This has a lot of potential for push applications and while I was investigating Mongrel2 a new version of iOS came out that included changes to Safari. While looking at the list of Safari [...]
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Example Mongrel2 Handler in Ruby

By | Published: December 6, 2010
Right before I went to Rubyconf I started looking at Mongrel2 so I had something to hack on while I was there. I grabbed the two Ruby handlers listed on the main site, Ruby Mongrel2 and Rack Mongrel2, to get started. I noticed right away that I couldn't kill the handler process once it started [...]
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Using Daemon-Kit and RobustThread to Build Ruby Daemons

By | Published: March 2, 2010
On a number of occasions I have found myself needing to assemble a daemon process for some type or processing done using Ruby. Each time I roll things a little different and I finally started to wonder if someone had already put together tools for doing the daemon parts. After some quick digging I ran [...]
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How I Used Hpricot and Mechanize in GeeQE

By | Published: September 27, 2009
While building GeeQE I wanted to enhance the CC dump of Stack Overflow's data. The main reason I wanted to do this was to capture Gravatar hashes and user badges. To do this I decided to continue using Ruby as I did with the XML loading (see my previous post on XML parsing with Ruby). [...]
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Fast XML parsing with Ruby

By | Published: September 9, 2009
One of the first things I needed to do while building the GeeQE iPhone application was process the CC data dump from Stack Overflow. The dump contains XML files representing tables from Stack Overflow with the largest file being posts.xml weighing in at 1.2G as of September. I decided it would be pretty easy to [...]
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Using Ruby and HTTParty to consume web services the easy way

By | Published: January 26, 2009
Web services seem to be multiplying like rabbits these days. For a good sampling of just how many there are check out the Programmable Web API list. In general it is pretty easy to consume basic REST web services but after you have done it enough it starts getting old. Thankfully for those of us [...]
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Cleaning up stale rails sessions (removing ruby_sess files)

By | Published: June 8, 2006
I'm not sure if something isn't set up correctly of if this is just a fact of life with rails but the sessions it creates never seem to go away. I think before rails 1.1 the sessions where stored in /tmp and now they are stored in the apps directory along with everything else so [...]
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Ruby Oracle DBI ActiveRecord in 7 steps

By | Published: March 23, 2006
Setting up ruby to work with Oracle seems to be a pain for a lot of people. Here are the steps I follow to set it up on a linux box from nothing to Active Record or DBI in 7 steps.
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