Thin 1.0

Thin 1.0, codename That’s What She Said, is out!
gem install thin
1.0, OMGWTFBBQ!
Yes 1.0! That doesn’t mean it’s bug free or anything. But, it does mean that it’s been running on a number of servers and no show stopper bugs have been found since a while.
Special thanks to…
A lot of people have helped me achieve this [...]

Presenting Rack at Montreal Against Rails

I’ll be presenting Rack this Tuesday at the first Montreal Against Rails (the non-Rails meeting).
I’ll show how to use Rack and then I’d like to try something new (and probably crazy-stupid). Building a web framework with Rack is so easy, I’ll be doing pair programming with anyone from the audience to create our own custom [...]

Ruby on V8

Google Chrome looks cool, ok… But what is even cooler for me is V8, the super JavaScript VM.
JavaScript is a dynamic language, just like Ruby.
You can add stuff to objects at runtime, like Ruby.
It’s object oriented, like Ruby.
It has a GC, like Ruby.
…
What if we could run Ruby on V8?
Well, it’s a lot easier that [...]