[#223105] ruby programming best practice — "Shannon Fang" <xrfang@...>

As a dynamic language, Ruby is much more flexible and easier than other

18 messages 2006/11/01

[#223126] variable pointer — "akbarhome" <akbarhome@...>

@c = "donal"

17 messages 2006/11/01

[#223211] file size revisit — python152@...

Hi, folks

17 messages 2006/11/02

[#223299] Just a question to throw out there... — "Skotty" <shyguyfrenzy@...>

Another noobrube question.

23 messages 2006/11/02

[#223398] Output not clear — "Learning Ruby" <learningruby@...>

I am a newbie to Ruby and the output of the following program is not clear

14 messages 2006/11/03

[#223425] Bytecode Compiler (#100) — Ruby Quiz <james@...>

The three rules of Ruby Quiz:

27 messages 2006/11/03

[#223458] REXML ... performance & memory usage ... — Jeff Wood <jeff@...>

Wow ... I am trying to use REXML to parse through an 8.8Mb xml file ...

14 messages 2006/11/03

[#223653] Book wanted: Metaprogramming in Ruby — Jay Levitt <jay+news@...>

Now that Hal, David B, Curt, and others have some spare time:

25 messages 2006/11/06

[#223736] REXML — "pdg" <pgattphoto@...>

Hi All,

22 messages 2006/11/06

[#223831] the name of Matz — Byung-Hee HWANG <bh@...>

Hello,

51 messages 2006/11/07
[#223839] Re: [OT] the name of Matz — Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@...> 2006/11/07

Hi,

[#224216] Re: [OT] the name of Matz — Byung-Hee HWANG <bh@...> 2006/11/09

Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote:

[#223975] Re: [OT] the name of Matz — Devin Mullins <twifkak@...> 2006/11/08

Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote:

[#224630] Re: the name of Matz — "Ryo" <furufuru@...> 2006/11/12

Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote:

[#224645] Re: the name of Matz — "Robert Dober" <robert.dober@...> 2006/11/12

On 11/12/06, Ryo <furufuru@ccsr.u-tokyo.ac.jp> wrote:

[#242731] Re: the name of Matz — Harry <ruby.hardware@...> 2007/03/09

> It might be fun though if you could give a pointer to the "correct"

[#223846] How to make a cycling counter from commandline? — "darenbell@..." <darenbell@...>

Hi, I'm looking for a way to implement this idea:

12 messages 2006/11/07

[#223930] Two way communication with the command shell (IO.popen?) — James Smith <jmdjmsmith@...>

19 messages 2006/11/08
[#223943] Re: Two way communication with the command shell (IO.popen?) — ara.t.howard@... 2006/11/08

On Wed, 8 Nov 2006, James Smith wrote:

[#223997] Re: Two way communication with the command shell (IO.popen?) — James Smith <jmdjmsmith@...> 2006/11/08

unknown wrote:

[#224012] Re: Two way communication with the command shell (IO.popen?) — ara.t.howard@... 2006/11/08

On Wed, 8 Nov 2006, James Smith wrote:

[#224327] Re: Two way communication with the command shell (IO.popen?) — James Smith <jmdjmsmith@...> 2006/11/10

unknown wrote:

[#224690] Re: testing whether a process has completed.. — James Smith <jmdjmsmith@...> 2006/11/12

OK, keeping it simple I am basically using the following code:

[#224691] Re: testing whether a process has completed.. — "Patrick Hurley" <phurley@...> 2006/11/12

On 11/12/06, James Smith <jmdjmsmith@msn.com> wrote:

[#223953] Why create web servers? — "CatLady []" <totalharmonicdistortion@...>

Hi,

16 messages 2006/11/08

[#224002] FastRI 0.1.0: faster, smarter RI docs for Ruby, DRb-enabled — Mauricio Fernandez <mfp@...>

FastRI 0.1.0: faster, smarter RI docs for Ruby, DRb-enabled

27 messages 2006/11/08

[#224013] #returning and #tap — "Trans" <transfire@...>

Had use for this today: #returning is a convenience method you'll find

57 messages 2006/11/08
[#225210] Re: #returning and #tap — Eric Hodel <drbrain@...7.net> 2006/11/15

On Nov 8, 2006, at 6:40 AM, Trans wrote:

[#225233] Re: #returning and #tap — Joel VanderWerf <vjoel@...> 2006/11/16

Eric Hodel wrote:

[#225358] Re: #returning and #tap — Eric Hodel <drbrain@...7.net> 2006/11/16

On Nov 15, 2006, at 5:40 PM, Joel VanderWerf wrote:

[#225370] Re: #returning and #tap — ara.t.howard@... 2006/11/16

On Fri, 17 Nov 2006, Eric Hodel wrote:

[#225382] Re: #returning and #tap — Joel VanderWerf <vjoel@...> 2006/11/16

ara.t.howard@noaa.gov wrote:

[#225385] Re: #returning and #tap — dblack@... 2006/11/16

Hi --

[#225388] Re: #returning and #tap — Joel VanderWerf <vjoel@...> 2006/11/16

dblack@wobblini.net wrote:

[#225393] Re: #returning and #tap — dblack@... 2006/11/16

Hi --

[#225399] Re: #returning and #tap — Joel VanderWerf <vjoel@...> 2006/11/16

dblack@wobblini.net wrote:

[#225420] Re: #returning and #tap — dblack@... 2006/11/16

Hi --

[#225476] Re: #returning and #tap — "Martin DeMello" <martindemello@...> 2006/11/17

On 11/17/06, dblack@wobblini.net <dblack@wobblini.net> wrote:

[#225488] Re: #returning and #tap — dblack@... 2006/11/17

Hi --

[#225494] Re: #returning and #tap — spooq <spoooq@...> 2006/11/17

I definitely think of it as tapping a phone line.

[#225495] Re: #returning and #tap — spooq <spoooq@...> 2006/11/17

Actually, how about giving the proc a copy of the object, rather than

[#224039] Proc as Observer — "Tim Pease" <tim.pease@...>

Working with an Observable object, I wanted to be able to add a Proc

20 messages 2006/11/08
[#224061] Re: Proc as Observer — "Trans" <transfire@...> 2006/11/08

[#224040] Simple Math Problem — Thom Loring <tloring@...>

Can anyone shed some light on a simple math problem I have encountered?

14 messages 2006/11/08

[#224087] The Ruby Way review on Slashdot — Timothy Hunter <TimHunter@...>

Whoo-hoo! My review of Hal Fulton's _The_Ruby_Way,_Second_Edition_ is on

17 messages 2006/11/08

[#224157] thousand ways to rome — Chris Mueller <damngoodcoffee@...>

Hi,

17 messages 2006/11/09

[#224246] Overwriting the Integer class for method succ! (instead of just succ) — "paul" <pjvleeuwen@...>

Hi all,

11 messages 2006/11/09

[#224331] Rails vs. Asp.Net politics — "Leslie Viljoen" <leslieviljoen@...>

I have the deciding vote in a new (rather large) web app we need to

28 messages 2006/11/10

[#224352] VCR Program Manager (#101) — Ruby Quiz <james@...>

The three rules of Ruby Quiz:

13 messages 2006/11/10

[#224398] looking for some feedback about Certification — "pat eyler" <pat.eyler@...>

Aaah, nothing like a good controversial topic to stir up a holy war

38 messages 2006/11/10
[#224401] Re: looking for some feedback about Certification — Gustav Paul <gustav@...> 2006/11/10

pat eyler wrote:

[#224439] Re: looking for some feedback about Certification — dblack@... 2006/11/11

Hi --

[#224411] turn 0.1.0 Released — "Tim Pease" <tim.pease@...>

turn version 0.1.0 has been released!

18 messages 2006/11/10

[#224532] McGovern Likes JRuby... — Charles Oliver Nutter <charles.nutter@...>

I'm not sure how to feel about this one :)

26 messages 2006/11/11
[#224570] Re: McGovern Likes JRuby... — "M. Edward (Ed) Borasky" <znmeb@...> 2006/11/11

Charles Oliver Nutter wrote:

[#224574] Re: McGovern Likes JRuby... — David Vallner <david@...> 2006/11/11

M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote:

[#224539] Ruby GUI with IDE — "Josh Mr." <kamipride102@...>

Hello all,

33 messages 2006/11/11
[#224543] Re: Ruby GUI with IDE — "M. Edward (Ed) Borasky" <znmeb@...> 2006/11/11

Josh Mr. wrote:

[#224546] Re: Ruby GUI with IDE — AliasX Neo <kamipride102@...> 2006/11/11

M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote:

[#224554] Re: Ruby GUI with IDE — David Vallner <david@...> 2006/11/11

AliasX Neo wrote:

[#224569] Re: Ruby GUI with IDE — "M. Edward (Ed) Borasky" <znmeb@...> 2006/11/11

David Vallner wrote:

[#224577] Re: Ruby GUI with IDE — Caleb Tennis <caleb@...> 2006/11/11

>>

[#224578] Re: Ruby GUI with IDE — AliasX Neo <kamipride102@...> 2006/11/11

So I guess a better format for my original question should be:

[#224580] Re: Ruby GUI with IDE — David Vallner <david@...> 2006/11/11

AliasX Neo wrote:

[#224639] regular expression too big — Peter Schrammel <peter.schrammel@...>

Hi,

31 messages 2006/11/12

[#224665] Help convert a Perl user to the Ruby Way. — Sebastian Reid <seb@...>

Hi all.

13 messages 2006/11/12

[#224777] Nitro + Og 0.40.0 — "George Moschovitis" <george.moschovitis@...>

Hello everyone,

17 messages 2006/11/13

[#224817] directory_watcher 0.1.1 — "Tim Pease" <tim.pease@...>

A class for watching files within a directory and generating events

16 messages 2006/11/13
[#224838] Re: directory_watcher 0.1.1 — "Kenosis" <kenosis@...> 2006/11/13

[#224839] Re: directory_watcher 0.1.1 — "Tim Pease" <tim.pease@...> 2006/11/13

On 11/13/06, Kenosis <kenosis@gmail.com> wrote:

[#224933] ruby indentantion — Alfonso <euoar@...>

I have just started with ruby, and something that I have observed is

23 messages 2006/11/14

[#224949] Is 2.0 Integer or Float? — "S. Robert James" <srobertjames@...>

I'd like to be able to do:

18 messages 2006/11/14

[#224997] Assoc method on large array — "gregarican" <greg.kujawa@...>

I am trying to invoke the assoc method on a large array. It seems to

13 messages 2006/11/14

[#225069] Design problem with 'inject' — Gary Boone <dr@...>

20 messages 2006/11/15

[#225109] FastRI 0.2.0: full-text searching, smarter search strategies — Mauricio Fernandez <mfp@...>

FastRI is an alternative to the ri command-line tool. It is *much* faster, and

9 messages 2006/11/15

[#225179] *Fast* way to process large files line by line — Devesh Agrawal <dagrawal@...>

Hi Folks,

20 messages 2006/11/15

[#225288] Re: parse xml file, put results in mysql db — "seb@..." <seb@...>

--- Kathy Simmons <kathys39@hotmail.com> wrote:

15 messages 2006/11/16
[#225291] Re: parse xml file, put results in mysql db — Jon Egil Strand <jes@...> 2006/11/16

>

[#225296] Re: parse xml file, put results in mysql db — Mike Fletcher <lemurific+rforum@...> 2006/11/16

Jon Egil Strand wrote:

[#225330] Re: parse xml file, put results in mysql db — Kathy Simmons <kathys39@...> 2006/11/16

Here's the full code - I'm reading in nmap output in scanfile.xml and

[#225379] IHelp 0.4.0 - full text search — "Ilmari Heikkinen" <ilmari.heikkinen@...>

View and search object documentation from irb.

13 messages 2006/11/16
[#225383] Re: [ANN] IHelp 0.4.0 - full text search — Parragh Szabolcs <parragh@...> 2006/11/16

Ilmari Heikkinen 叝ta:

[#225398] Re: [ANN] IHelp 0.4.0 - full text search — "Ilmari Heikkinen" <ilmari.heikkinen@...> 2006/11/16

Hi,

[#225412] Re: [ANN] IHelp 0.4.0 - full text search — "Ilmari Heikkinen" <ilmari.heikkinen@...> 2006/11/16

> Thanks for noticing this, should be fixed in 0.4.1.

[#225470] Re: [ANN] IHelp 0.4.0 - full text search — Parragh Szabolcs <parragh@...> 2006/11/17

Ilmari Heikkinen 叝ta:

[#225512] Literate Ruby (#102) — Ruby Quiz <james@...>

The three rules of Ruby Quiz:

12 messages 2006/11/17

[#225547] ruby equivalent PHP function is_numeric? — Josselin <josselin@...>

After reading completely my Ruby book, I cannot find a function

15 messages 2006/11/17

[#225681] Ruby vs Java vs c++ — n/a <na@...>

hi, newbie so please be tolerant.... ;)

117 messages 2006/11/18

[#225754] Ruby screen scraping — Chris Gallagher <cgallagher@...>

Hi,

28 messages 2006/11/19

[#225909] Create array of hash values — David Lelong <drlelon@...>

Hi,

13 messages 2006/11/20

[#226023] Bug in ruby? — AliasX Neo <kamipride102@...>

Well, I've spent the last hour or so debugging one of the stupidest

31 messages 2006/11/21

[#226029] array question — Li Chen <chen_li3@...>

Hi all,

41 messages 2006/11/21
[#226031] Re: array question — "Wilson Bilkovich" <wilsonb@...> 2006/11/21

On 11/20/06, Li Chen <chen_li3@yahoo.com> wrote:

[#226120] Hpricot/Rubyful Soup comparison — Wes Gamble <weyus@...>

Has anyone done a head to head comparison of Hpricot and Rubyful Soup

19 messages 2006/11/21

[#226168] New RCRchive, including new process — dblack@...

Hi everyone --

35 messages 2006/11/22

[#226210] invoke system command from within a method — Moritz Reiter <mreiter@...>

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----

11 messages 2006/11/22

[#226228] how do I contribute to Ruby? — "Giles Bowkett" <gilesb@...>

check this out, this is the whiniest change ever, but what I want is

15 messages 2006/11/22

[#226262] Rubyish inst.var initializations — "Victor \"Zverok\" Shepelev" <vshepelev@...>

Hi all.

12 messages 2006/11/23

[#226263] Compare Array Values? — "Daniel N" <has.sox@...>

I want to check to see if two arrays contain the same values.

30 messages 2006/11/23

[#226388] Anyone else getting weird flickr errors? — "Gregory Brown" <gregory.t.brown@...>

When I post to RubyTalk, I've been getting a 'your photo upload

14 messages 2006/11/24

[#226484] Is there a simply way to get every method log itself before running? — "Richard" <RichardDummyMailbox58407@...>

Hi,

11 messages 2006/11/24

[#226537] DictionaryMatcher (#103) — Ruby Quiz <james@...>

The three rules of Ruby Quiz:

18 messages 2006/11/24

[#226553] Ruby/Python/REXX as a MUCK scripting language — Tony Belding <zobeid@...>

I'm interested in using an off-the-shelf interpreted language as a

18 messages 2006/11/25

[#226608] coding practise — sempsteen <sempsteen@...>

Hi all,

23 messages 2006/11/25

[#226707] Ruby/Rails on Gumstix — "M. Edward (Ed) Borasky" <znmeb@...>

For the past couple of weeks, I've been playing around with Ruby on a

16 messages 2006/11/26
[#226751] Re: Ruby/Rails on Gumstix — "Giles Bowkett" <gilesb@...> 2006/11/26

On 11/25/06, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky <znmeb@cesmail.net> wrote:

[#226709] Timestamp — Srinivas Sa <sr.sakhamuri@...>

How do i add two time stamps

23 messages 2006/11/26

[#226731] find index of first non zeo value in array — Josselin <josselin@...>

with :

24 messages 2006/11/26
[#226733] Re: find index of first non zeo value in array — Olivier <o.renaud@...> 2006/11/26

Le dimanche 26 novembre 2006 15:00, Josselin a 馗rit

[#226783] Two Advanced Ruby Performance Questions — Sunny Hirai <sunny@...>

First, I am a Ruby newbie but am an experienced developer of highly

27 messages 2006/11/26
[#226816] Re: Two Advanced Ruby Performance Questions — Edwin Fine <efine145-nospam01@...> 2006/11/26

This post may be stating the obvious, but here goes anyway... I hope I

[#226792] Extremely Noobish Documentation Question — Paco Paco <mepaco@...>

Hello all,

16 messages 2006/11/26

[#226806] Re: ruby and list comprehension — James Cunningham <jameshcunningham@...>

On 2006-11-25 18:47:26 -0500, Brad Tilley <rtilley@vt.edu> said:

12 messages 2006/11/26

[#227012] Is ruby a viable corporate alternative? — "Mr P" <MisterPerl@...>

Our team uses Perl for almost 100% of our projects, as we have for the

27 messages 2006/11/28

[#227041] FileUtils.touch doesn't work — Jeff Toth <jeff@...>

Why won't Ruby just install from the port? I don't know what Ruby is,

12 messages 2006/11/28

[#227108] Simple screen scraper using scrAPI — "doog" <doog@...>

I'm a Ruby novice. Does anyone have an example of a simple screen

14 messages 2006/11/28

[#227160] cidr.rb: port of Perl's Net::CIDR v0.11 available — Jos Backus <jos@...>

Module:

17 messages 2006/11/29

[#227198] Splitting a CSV file into 40,000 line chunks — Drew Olson <olsonas@...>

All -

40 messages 2006/11/29
[#227243] Re: Splitting a CSV file into 40,000 line chunks — James Edward Gray II <james@...> 2006/11/29

On Nov 29, 2006, at 9:32 AM, Drew Olson wrote:

[#227255] Re: Splitting a CSV file into 40,000 line chunks — Drew Olson <olsonas@...> 2006/11/29

Thanks for all the responses. As noted in a post above, I am trying to

[#227219] Need a range, but not getting it. . . . — Peter Bailey <pbailey@...>

Hello,

33 messages 2006/11/29

[#227282] creating directory "http://example.com" — Comfort Eagle <steve@...>

How do I create a directory 'http://example.com' without it getting

16 messages 2006/11/29

[#227302] Wrong results using named arguments — "Jason Vogel" <jasonvogel@...>

Source:

12 messages 2006/11/29

[#227336] Overwhelmed by emails — Daniel DeLorme <dan-ml@...42.com>

This list has way too many messages for the amount of free time I have. Does

12 messages 2006/11/30

[#227388] Timers, scheduling and Ruby — Damphyr <damphyr@...>

Ok, since the original post migh just appear in a month's time, lets

24 messages 2006/11/30
[#227404] Re: Timers, scheduling and Ruby — James Edward Gray II <james@...> 2006/11/30

On Nov 30, 2006, at 7:51 AM, Damphyr wrote:

[#227414] Re: Timers, scheduling and Ruby — ara.t.howard@... 2006/11/30

On Fri, 1 Dec 2006, James Edward Gray II wrote:

[#227416] Re: Timers, scheduling and Ruby — James Edward Gray II <james@...> 2006/11/30

On Nov 30, 2006, at 11:47 AM, ara.t.howard@noaa.gov wrote:

[#227461] Re: Timers, scheduling and Ruby — ara.t.howard@... 2006/11/30

On Fri, 1 Dec 2006, James Edward Gray II wrote:

[#227402] Segmentation fault, proc, eval, long string — Bob Hutchison <hutch@...>

Hi,

27 messages 2006/11/30
[#227415] Re: Segmentation fault, proc, eval, long string [Reproduced] — Bob Hutchison <hutch@...> 2006/11/30

A little more on this...

[#227569] Re: Segmentation fault, proc, eval, long string [Reproduced] — Pit Capitain <pit@...> 2006/12/01

Bob Hutchison schrieb:

[#227426] simple question, looping through each character in a string — "warhero" <beingthexemplarylists@...>

how can I accomplish something like this in ruby:

17 messages 2006/11/30
[#227438] Re: simple question, looping through each character in a string — dblack@... 2006/11/30

Hi --

[#227458] Wisdom of including Rakefile in releases — "Trans" <transfire@...>

I was poking around in the /usr/lib/ruby/gems directory today and

13 messages 2006/11/30

Re: Two Advanced Ruby Performance Questions

From: Sunny Hirai <sunny@...>
Date: 2006-11-28 09:46:41 UTC
List: ruby-talk #226987
Frederick, M. Edward, Ezra, J-Van, Eric

First of all, thanks for ALL of the fantastic replies. I must say, the 
Ruby community is simply amazing.

Vrtwo,

Thought I'd address your question first since it might give some context 
to the rest of the replies.

We anticipate the system should, at a minimum, support 1 million users 
with the ability to scale larger as required. We built a similar 
application about 6 years ago and it had around 250,000 users IIRC 
before we shut it down (unfortunately, the model was not sustainable 
back in 2000 though it is now). Given the growth in the Internet, I 
anticipate hitting 1 million users would not be difficult today.

For a bit more background, my company currently has multiple website 
builders targeting small businesses. We also have a "website builder 
builder" or perhaps we could call it a "meta website builder." These 
automatically talk to DNS servers, email servers, other services and we 
have partner integrations (as well as marketing partnerships) with many 
external companies like Google, eBay, PayPal, Yahoo!, etc. In other 
words, the application is pretty complex.

However, this business to business builder is built on standard web 
technology. We regularly review all of our competitors (in depth) and we 
believe it is currently the best such website builder overall (though it 
needs and we are currently working on a serious refresh of the home 
pages and a refresher in design tools which are written but not yet 
launched); however, it is not Web 2.0 as it was started in a different 
era. I believe we actually had the first online website builder on the 
Internet.

Our new project will target personal websites as a free service to go 
into a MySpace like market but aim at a market a little older than that. 
I will say that many of the new ideas that we've coded have never been 
implemented on the web yet (that I've seen or heard) and are not trivial 
things to implement. We had to write custom graphic manipulation 
libraries to get the performance we wanted after having tested about a 
dozen available libraries on the Internet and being unsatisfied with 
them (it will blow Image Magick away in performance and power for 
example). Currently, I have written all the code for the new project and 
wrote all the base code for the business-to-business project though it 
has been taken over for a couple years now with a team of coders.

Hi Ezra,

Let me say wow. I find there are few people who really understand 
scaling issues well and allow me to say that it is fantastic information 
you've provided. This is exactly the type of info I was looking for and, 
quite frankly, I was worried there was still too little performance work 
being done out there. It seems there is some serious work being done 
however.

Actually, the file upload issue is something that ColdFusion also has a 
problem with. In ColdFusion, the optimal number of maximum threads is a 
multiple of the number of CPUs but that doesn't work when 10 threads can 
be consumed by 10 concurrent uploads. Our solution would have been to 
have a dedicated upload server with a higher maximum thread count just 
to handle the uploads. In practice, the upload limit hasn't been 
problematic (yet).

I love the idea of taking the upload handling and allowing that to scale 
better. It is, frankly, a brilliant idea. I also really like the fact 
that you are thread-conscious.

I will be looking at Merb tonight.

As an aside
-----
If we decide to go the Ruby road (which I'm feeling a little more 
confident with now), I would consider contributing to merb and your 
project and am flattered that you asked. That said, allow me to be 
completely frank and say that I don't think I would be useful to the 
project immediately. I would say (again frankly) that I am a very good 
developer and that I think I could program in a way that is natural to 
the Ruby style, but still, I have a lack of experience in Ruby. I have, 
however, adopted many Ruby style programming constructs into ColdFusion 
because I like them so much (things like array iterators) and have 
created a pretty nice framework in ColdFusion. I was originally wooed 
into Ruby through Prototype which I am very good at coding with however.
-----

I have to say that I'm not quite sure I understand why multiple Xen 
instances would provide better performance than a single environment 
running multiple Ruby instances. Not saying it isn't true. Just that I 
don't understand why this would be.

Thank you for the info on ActionPack and MERB. I'm going to look into 
this more.

As suggested, we do use a shared nothing approach in our applications 
using the database servers for persistence. Since our db has enough RAM, 
it basically acts like DRB.

As you mention, we do a lot of caching but because of the dynamic nature 
of our application, we do most of it in the db. We basically do a lot of 
front-end processing to get data from a bunch of different places in the 
db, process it, then encode it into a single TEXT field, and drop it 
into a table we designate for caching. When we need it, we retrieve it 
then decode it for use. We currently encode/decode using WDDX but I now 
have a simple custom library do it about 100x faster. If we edit any of 
the underlying data, the edit action also deletes the related cache 
record. Upon next retrieval, if the data isn't found in the cache it is 
automatically recreated with the new data from the edits. Makes for a 
really simple interface to refresh data and also makes it simple since 
the DB is authoritative. It scales quite well.

Thank you Eric, Edward and Joe (J-Van) and Frederick.

The info on persistence and threading was useful. I do find it both cool 
and troubling that essentially the same application scope is used for 
every request though I understand there seems to be the ability to 
execute in Anonymous Modules. Seems a little dangerous but also seems 
like you can get some really cool performance tweeks by front loading 
processing at Class creation time.

M. Edward,

I would be excited to see JRuby becoming a good implementation of Ruby. 
With their team being adopted by Sun, this seems like a strong 
possibility. Plus a lot of the integration libraries are written in 
Java.

Didn't mean to preach to the choir. Just thought the last comment 
suggested that I shouldn't worry so much about performance and just 
wanted to explain why our situation may not be the typical Ruby 
application and why I was concerned with performance so much.

Thanks for referring me to Zed Shaw. I'm not sure if I'm ready for him 
just yet but he seems to be a good guy to talk to.

J-Van

Thanks for the ideas. By scaling with "processes" I'm assuming your 
meaning to have multiple complete application scopes instead of one 
application scope running concurrent threads? Just wanting to make sure 
I understood that correctly.

Eric,

Thanks for the insight into ERB vs eRuby and caching.

Sunny Hirai
CEO, MeZine Inc.

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