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Async Ruby
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EventMachine Performance Spikes
The Async gem is the natural successor, It's actively maintained, and allows you write synchronous code is if it wasn't non-blocking, and most libraries don't need any special support for Async (exceptions are gems with C extensions that do I/O and DB libraries with connection pooling that would otherwise be thread-based).
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Philosophy of Coroutines
https://github.com/socketry/async uses coroutines and I think in general it’s been a great model with very few downsides in practice.
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Is ruby really slow?
There's async I/O. Here's a library that leans on Ruby 3's fiber scheduler.
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Show HN: Goru, an experimental, Go-inspired concurrency library for Ruby
Hey folks, wanted to show this off and get feedback. Still early/experimental but there are quite a few concepts I'm excited about here. This project came about while writing a program in Go and loving its approach to concurrency. Being a long-time Rubyist I immediately started to think about what similar concepts might look like in Ruby.
I set out with two main design constraints:
1. Lightweight: I didn't want routines to be backed by fibers or threads. Having been involved some in the async project (https://github.com/socketry/async), I had some experience using fibers for concurrency but was curious if they could be avoided.
2. Explicitness: Routine behavior must be written to describe exactly how it is to behave. I always felt like concurrent code was hard to fully understand because of the indirection involved. On the spectrum between tedium and magical I wanted to err more on the side of tedium with Goru.
Goru routines are just blocks that are called once for every tick of the reactor. It is up to the developer to implement behavior in terms of a state machine, where on each tick the routine takes some action and then updates the state of the routine for the next tick. This fulfills both design constraints:
1. Because routines are just blocks, they weigh in at about ~345 bytes of memory overhead.
2. Routine behavior is explicit because it is written as a state machine inside the block.
Couple more features worth noting:
* Goru includes channels for buffered reading/writing (similar to channels in Go).
* Goru ships with primitives for non-blocking IO to easily build things like http servers.
Curious your thoughts!
- Twitter (re)Releases Recommendation Algorithm on GitHub
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Simple MapReduce that melt my brain (yes, fibers there)
For those who are interested here is the question.
- How does Ruby handle parallel HTTP requests in separate threads?
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Two months into learning Ruby, it is the most beautiful language I ever learned
Welcome! Ruby isn't exactly "dying", but the hype/popularity is definitely fading. This is primarily because Ruby is no longer "new", most of Ruby's popularity came from Rails, and now Rails is no longer the "new hotness". However, Ruby still has lots of awesome features and lots of awesome other libraries and frameworks, such as the new fancy irb gem that uses reline, nokogiri, chunky_png, the async gems, Dragon Ruby, SciRuby, Ronin, and the new Hanami web framework.
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ruby has supported native async or not?
In Github, there is a Async Gem(https://github.com/socketry/async).
- Efficient IO in Linux with io_uring [pdf]
Ruby on Rails
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GitHub Incident with Issues, API Requests and Pull Requests
[0] is a my favorite demonstration of it.
[0]: https://github.com/rails/rails/commit/b83965785db1eec019edf1...
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Client side Git hooks 101
Here's a real life example: Imagine a Ruby on Rails app on which a team of developers are working. The code is hosted on GitLab and all the work is coordinated using GitLab issues. In other words: For every commit, there's an associated issue and the issue number acts as a sort of primary key for documentation, time reporting and so forth. This convention has a few advantages, most notably the ability to easily learn more about how, when and by whom features were implemented as well as how this implementation came to be.
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16 Best Ruby Frameworks For Web Development [2024]
Ruby on Rails is regarded as one of the best ruby frameworks. It was the primary language in developing big projects such as Twitter and helped the language boost the community. Often referred to as “Rails,” Ruby on Rails is a web development framework with an MVC control structure and currently running its 6.1 version. The 16-year-old language has dramatically influenced the web development structures and managing databases, web pages, and other components on a web application.
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More control over enum in Rails 7.1
In Rails 7.1, a new option _instance_methods is introduced, allowing developers to opt-out of the automatic generation of instance methods for enums. When enum is defined with _instance_methods: false, Rails will no longer generate methods like pending?, processed?, etc.
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Ruby on Rails load testing habits
Rails isn't super opinionated about database writes, its mostly left up to developers to discover that for relational DBs you do not want to be doing a bunch of small writes all at once.
That said it specifically has tools to address this that started appearing a few years ago https://github.com/rails/rails/pull/35077
The way my team handles it is to stick Kafka in between whats generating the records (for us, a bunch of web scraping workers) and and a consumer that pulls off the Kafka queue and runs an insert when its internal buffer reaches around 50k rows.
Rails is also looking to add some more direct background type work with https://github.com/basecamp/solid_queue but this is still very new - most larger Rails shops are going to be running a second system and a gem called Sidekiq that pulls jobs out of Redis.
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DHH installing Campfire (37s ONCE #1) [video]
I'm looking forward to see what extractions from this will land on rails. For example: https://github.com/rails/rails/issues/50454
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First commits in a Ruby on Rails app
Here is what strict_loading does (source):
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Continuous Deployment with GitHub Actions and Kamal
Kamal is a wonderfully simple way to deploy your applications anywhere. It will also be included by default in Rails 8. Kamal is trivial, but I don’t recommend using it on your development machine.
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What's Coming in Rails 8
Here's the GitHub milestone I've based this article on — https://github.com/rails/rails/milestone/87
- Rails 8 Plan
What are some alternatives?
Concurrent Ruby - Modern concurrency tools including agents, futures, promises, thread pools, supervisors, and more. Inspired by Erlang, Clojure, Scala, Go, Java, JavaScript, and classic concurrency patterns.
Roda - Routing Tree Web Toolkit
EventMachine - EventMachine: fast, simple event-processing library for Ruby programs
Hanami - The web, with simplicity.
Polyphony - Fine-grained concurrency for Ruby
Sinatra - Classy web-development dressed in a DSL (official / canonical repo)
Celluloid - Actor-based concurrent object framework for Ruby
CodeBehind Framework - CodeBehind library is a modern backend framework. This library is a programming model based on the MVC structure, which provides the possibility of creating dynamic aspx files in .NET Core and has high serverside independence.
Sequel - Sequel: The Database Toolkit for Ruby
Cuba - Rum based microframework for web development.
net-ssh - Pure Ruby implementation of an SSH (protocol 2) client
Padrino - Padrino is a full-stack ruby framework built upon Sinatra.