AnyCable VS rubygems

LiteCable is tailored for vertical scaling by a tight integration of components. If you extract maximum performance from the SQLite engine, the limits of this approach are pushed a lot further. Once you observe that your latencies start to explode, though, I would suggest researching options like AnyCable, which inherently provide better strategies for horizontal scaling.

Here we'll deploy Anycable wih MRSK.

So far, everything is working great with our new LambdaCable gem. Eventually it will be a drop-in adapter for ActionCable and join the ranks of other popular alternatives like AnyCable. To bring the project to completion faster, I needed feedback loops that were much faster than deploying code to the cloud. I needed a development proxy! One where my Rails application would receive events from both Lambda's Function URLs and the WebSocket events from API Gateway. Illustrated below with a demo video.

AnyCable v1.3 has been just released. The major highlights are:

I've been using this technique for a long time for gems development—to speed up CI RuboCop runs (by installing only the linter dependencies). Here is my typical rubocop.gemfile:

It does, but the precompiled binaries are only for < 3.1: https://rubygems.org/gems/grpc/versions/1.43.1-x86-linux

Action cable is probably what you're looking for. If you start having performance issues, AnyCable is a more performatic option that requires almost no changes in your ruby code.

I decided to give it a try for the AnyCable demo application, which requires deploying not only a Rails app, but also additional services for AnyCable.

I think what's being talked about here is the back end implementation for ActionCable. By default it uses ruby threads to push over open web sockets. There's at least one production quality drop in implementation (https://anycable.io/) that address the default scalability issues you'll have with ActionCable. The async support would seem to allow one to go much further with default rails before needing to move to something more performant.

Fetching source index from https://rubygems.org/ Could not verify the SSL certificate for https://rubygems.org/quick/Marshal.4.8/nokogiri-1.13.10-x86_64-linux.gemspec.rz. There is a chance you are experiencing a man-in-the-middle attack, but most likely your system doesn't have the CA certificates needed for verification. For information about OpenSSL certificates, see http://bit.ly/ruby-ssl. To connect without using SSL, edit your Gemfile sources and change 'https' to 'http'

# Gemfile source 'https://rubygems.org' gem 'dotenv' gem 'json' gem 'pry' gem 'rake' gem 'sassc' gem 'sinatra' gem 'sinatra-activerecord' gem 'sinatra-contrib' gem 'sinatra-static-assets' group :development do gem 'foreman' gem 'rubocop' gem 'sqlite3', '~> 1.3', '>= 1.3.11' end group :test do gem 'rack-test' gem 'rspec', require: 'spec' end group :production do gem 'pg' end

mkdir myapp && cd myapp echo "source 'https://rubygems.org'" > Gemfile echo "gem 'rails', '7.1.3.2'" >> Gemfile bundle install bundle exec rails new . --force --database=postgresql -j=esbuild -c=tailwind

With Ruby installed, you can now manage your RubyGems with the gem command. Install the Rails gem or update if you already have it.

source 'https://rubygems.org'

# frozen_string_literal: true source 'https://rubygems.org' ruby '>= 3.2.2' gem 'aws-sdk-bedrockruntime'

RubyGems Environment: - RUBYGEMS VERSION: 3.4.10 - RUBY VERSION: 3.2.2 (2023-03-30 patchlevel 53) [arm64-darwin22] - INSTALLATION DIRECTORY: /Users/michaeldaross/.asdf/installs/ruby/3.2.2/lib/ruby/gems/3.2.0 - USER INSTALLATION DIRECTORY: /Users/michaeldaross/.gem/ruby/3.2.0 - RUBY EXECUTABLE: /Users/michaeldaross/.asdf/installs/ruby/3.2.2/bin/ruby - GIT EXECUTABLE: /usr/bin/git - EXECUTABLE DIRECTORY: /Users/michaeldaross/.asdf/installs/ruby/3.2.2/bin - SPEC CACHE DIRECTORY: /Users/michaeldaross/.gem/specs - SYSTEM CONFIGURATION DIRECTORY: /Users/michaeldaross/.asdf/installs/ruby/3.2.2/etc - RUBYGEMS PLATFORMS: - ruby - arm64-darwin-22 - GEM PATHS: - /Users/michaeldaross/.asdf/installs/ruby/3.2.2/lib/ruby/gems/3.2.0 - /Users/michaeldaross/.gem/ruby/3.2.0 - GEM CONFIGURATION: - :update_sources => true - :verbose => true - :backtrace => true - :bulk_threshold => 1000 - "gem" => "--no-document" - REMOTE SOURCES: - https://rubygems.org/ ...

Gem::Ext::BuildError: ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension. current directory: /usr/share/rvm/gems/ruby-2.7.5/gems/mysql2-0.5.5/ext/mysql2 /usr/share/rvm/rubies/ruby-2.7.5/bin/ruby -I /usr/share/rvm/rubies/ruby-2.7.5/lib/ruby/2.7.0 -r ./siteconf20231208-2396-1amnwp6.rb extconf.rb checking for rb_absint_size()... yes checking for rb_absint_singlebit_p()... yes checking for rb_gc_mark_movable()... yes checking for rb_wait_for_single_fd()... yes checking for rb_enc_interned_str() in ruby.h... no ----- Cannot find library dir(s) /home/julio/.rvm/usr/lib ----- *** extconf.rb failed *** Could not create Makefile due to some reason, probably lack of necessary libraries and/or headers. Check the mkmf.log file for more details. You may need configuration options. Provided configuration options: --with-opt-dir --without-opt-dir --with-opt-include --without-opt-include=${opt-dir}/include --with-opt-lib --without-opt-lib=${opt-dir}/lib --with-make-prog --without-make-prog --srcdir=. --curdir --ruby=/usr/share/rvm/rubies/ruby-2.7.5/bin/$(RUBY_BASE_NAME) --with-openssl-dir --with-openssl-dir --with-openssl-include --without-openssl-include=${openssl-dir}/include --with-openssl-lib --without-openssl-lib=${openssl-dir}/lib To see why this extension failed to compile, please check the mkmf.log which can be found here: /usr/share/rvm/gems/ruby-2.7.5/extensions/x86_64-linux/2.7.0/mysql2-0.5.5/mkmf.log extconf failed, exit code 1 Gem files will remain installed in /usr/share/rvm/gems/ruby-2.7.5/gems/mysql2-0.5.5 for inspection. Results logged to /usr/share/rvm/gems/ruby-2.7.5/extensions/x86_64-linux/2.7.0/mysql2-0.5.5/gem_make.out An error occurred while installing mysql2 (0.5.5), and Bundler cannot continue. Make sure that `gem install mysql2 -v '0.5.5' --source 'https://rubygems.org/'` succeeds before bundling.

Bundle complete! 14 Gemfile dependencies, 83 gems now installed. run bundle lock --add-platform=x86_64-linux Fetching gem metadata from https://rubygems.org/......... Resolving dependencies... Writing lockfile to C:/Users/****/Desktop/Projects/Rails/MyFirstProject/Gemfile.lock run bundle binstubs bundler rails importmap:install bin/rails aborted! Errno::ENOENT: No such file or directory - C:/Users/****/Desktop/Projects/Rails/MyFirstProject/Rakefile (Errno::ENOENT) :37:in `require' :37:in `require' bin/rails:4:in `' (See full trace by running task with --trace) rails turbo:install stimulus:install bin/rails aborted! Errno::ENOENT: No such file or directory - C:/Users/****/Desktop/Projects/Rails/MyFirstProject/Rakefile (Errno::ENOENT) :37:in `require' :37:in `require' bin/rails:4:in `' (See full trace by running task with --trace)

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