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MySQLPlus is a new, non-blocking MySQL driver for Ruby 1.8 and 1.9 (anyone know if it will run on Rubinius?) from eSpace, the folks who created NeverBlock. (They also talk about NeverBlockPG, a postgreSQL driver, but it seems to have been deleted.) To quote eSpace's announcement: [MySQLPlus does] IO operations concurrently and in a transparent manner, thanks to NeverBlock. An interesting side
Summer is drawing to a close and many of the things which have distracted me from my blog are becoming less pressing, so it's about time for me to crank this back up — we'll have to see how well I keep up with it. Of course, there are a lot of exciting things on the horizon that are prompting me to write. One of the biggest is the release of V8, the JavaScript VM that's part of Google's Chrome.
This year’s MountainWest RubyConf was incredible. There were a bunch of great talks, and the hallway track (though too short) was awesome. It was especially great to go hang out at the hacking suite put on by Engine Yard I’m not going to go into too much detail about any of the talks until the video is released on Confreaks MWRC 2008 page. So far only Evan’s Keynote and Ezra’s have made it
When I read the posting about Cylon, the Ruby debugger for Visual Studio by SapphireSteel, I immediately thought about the Rubinius debugger highlighted in InfoQ recently. I decided to give it a try and see what I came up with. I wasn’t able to replicate Dermot’s tests exactly (I don’t know where he set his breakpoints, and Rubinius doesn’t support everything he tested), but here are my initial
Well, I have good and bad news from the Rubinius front. This morning, I built the latest Rubinius from the git repository, and gave LogWatchR another try … and it worked! This is a huge step forward from my perspective, since I’ve had all kinds of wierd failures in the past. The bad news (well, bad is an overstatement, let’s say ‘not so good news’) is that the performance is pretty bad at this
Evan Phoenix doesn’t update his blog very often, but when he does it’s worth reading. His most recent post is all about momentum, and it covers a cascade of big news in the Rubinius world. It all started with the team finishing the new compiler. This led to an implementation of Kernel#eval, which led to a working irb, and so on … Another indication of Brian Mitchell bringing up the idea of Io
It looks like the JRuby guys are getting serious about running Rubinius on their platform: "I added the minimum dependencies needed to get it rbx building and running bin/ci the same with JRuby" Charles Nutter They're not all the way there yet, Charles reports that he's still hitting failure at the end of the build. It's getting closer though, and with the history of cooperation the Rubinius
Well, Ruby 1.9.0 landed yesterday, as expected. I’d be remiss if I didn’t start out by thanking matz, ko1, and all the other hackers involved in getting this milestone release out the door. It’s a great step for Ruby, and one that we’ve been waiting a long time for. The bad news is that 1.9.0 is just a development release branch leading up to 2.0, and it doesn’t yet run Rails or Mongrel.
Ok, I’ve been sitting on some news for a while and it’s finally out in the open, so I guess I can talk about it. Engine Yard has just snapped up some seriously big guns in the Ruby world. From my conversations with them, is sounds like they’ll be putting in time on Rubinius as well as other Ruby enhancing projects. Here’s what Ezra told me about it: The big plan for rubinius is that we will
I didn't think to try the abs benchmarks in rubinius when I wrote up my first looking back post. A bit later, I decided to give it a whirl, and the script worked (minus a bug in the real time column). Here are the rubinius results: $ shotgun/rubinius benchmarking_abs.rb user system total real ternary: 0.985418 0.000000 0.985418 ( nan)
A There’s been some good coverage of the recent rubinius sprint in Denver (see Brian’s Blog, Wilson’s Blog, and Tim Bray’s Blog for some of the details). I wanted to get a bit more information though, so here’s a mini-interview I did with Evan Phoenix, Wilson Bilkovich, and Brian Ford. (Thanks guys, for taking some time out of your busy days to talk about the sprint with me. What were your
