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Distributed Ruby (DRb) "Working Well"

almost 6 years ago by Charles Oliver Nutter on Headius.
A new member of the JRuby community, Blane Dabney, submitted a patch for JRuby socket IO to resolve a DRb issue he'd been having. Our original implementation...

Conference Updates

almost 6 years ago by Charles Oliver Nutter on Headius.
RubyConf*MII am registered for RubyConf*MI, though it's still uncertain if I'll attend. The registration cost is a measly $20, but it sounds like it will...

Sunday Night Niblets

almost 6 years ago by Charles Oliver Nutter on Headius.
CampingAfter a minor fix provided by Ola Bini (thanks Ola!) we now have Camping running under JRuby, using the ActiveRecord JDBC adapter. According to Ola...

Calling all Tor Norbyes

almost 6 years ago by Charles Oliver Nutter on Headius.
Ok, perhaps the blogosphere can help with this one. I've been trying to respond to an email from Tor Norbye at Sun Microsystems since Sunday. Unfortunately...

JRuby: It's pretty much my favorite animal.

almost 6 years ago by Charles Oliver Nutter on Headius.
Some of the local Rubyists and I were talking about publishers for a future JRuby book...ligers were brought up...and, well, here's the result.It's just...

Pat Eyler: Gathering Reactions to the Sun Move

over 5 years ago by Charles Oliver Nutter on Headius.
Pat Eyler has a good wrap up of some reactions around the Net to the recent Sun move....

JRuby Get-Together Tonight in London

over 5 years ago by Charles Oliver Nutter on Headius.
Yes, today is the day! We will be getting JRubyists together at the Fitzroy near the RailsConf conference center.Here's a gmap to the Fitzroy. Show up around...

A Taste of Celebrity...and Pizza

over 5 years ago by Charles Oliver Nutter on Headius.
I'm still decompressing a bit after a great conference and 14 hours of transit from London to San Jose, but blogs are starting to trickle in about RailsConf...

Conference Updates

over 5 years ago by Charles Oliver Nutter on Headius.
Ok, so this post is as much for me as for you (so I have a post to refer back to) but some of you may be interested to know what conferences I'll be at...

Performance Progress Since 0.9.0

over 5 years ago by Charles Oliver Nutter on Headius.
I love comparing current trunk against 0.9.0. It always makes me happy.Here are the numbers for a local gem install rake. The second set of numbers is trunk...