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I’ve been using Ruby for over 3 years and have written tests for about as long. That’s something great about the Ruby community, it encourages you to do proper testing. Through this time I’ve worked with many different testing frameworks. I’ve come to appreciate the simplicity of Test::Unit. RSpec adds a level of complication with its DSL that I do not see the appeal of. Tests should be the most t

For a side-project to be run on a single machine I needed a background queue. I like self-contained software like sqlite, but I didn’t know of any self-contained background queue. They usually rely on some kind of broker, whether that is Redis or a database. I decided it would be fun to write one! Here’s the weekend story of toying with Unix, Ruby C extensions, MRI and Ruby to create localjob. Uni

In November, I dropped my iPhone 4 while running and the screen broke. My first instinct was to go and buy the new iPhone 5, but before doing that, I decided to go without a smartphone for at least a month to find out how much I really depended on it after 5 years. I’ve been a smartphone user for about 5 years. I started with the iPhone 3, grew to the 3GS and later to the 4. I was well on my way t

I’ve always run Ruby with RVM. After @chopmo’s talk at Aarhusrb on RVM, I realized how much more I could get out of RVM. I found I basically use RVM as just a way to switch between Ruby versions and implementations, rather than leveraging the power of gemsets, installing gems on a user basis and the .rvmrc file. This post is a compiled version of what I learned from the previously mentioned talk a

Unicorn is an interesting Unix Ruby HTTP server which makes great use of Unix: Unicorn is an HTTP server for Rack applications designed to only serve fast clients on low-latency, high-bandwidth connections and take advantage of features in Unix/Unix-like kernels. In this post I’ll describe Unicorn’s design then walk you through setting it up. Unicorn’s design Unicorn follows the Unix philosophy: D