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Testing RDDB: RESTful Ruby Database

~4 years ago by Ilya Grigorik on igvita.com.
The release of RDDB generated a lot of buzz in the community. Another creation by Anthony Eden, a prolific Ruby coder, RDDB is a document-oriented, RESTful...

Boosting ActiveRecord Performance

over 4 years ago by Ilya Grigorik on igvita.com.
ActiveRecord is arguably one of the best ORM wrappers out there. And as any Rails developer will likely tell you, it's also the backbone of the entire RoR...

Hands on MySQL Backup & Migration

over 4 years ago by Ilya Grigorik on igvita.com.
Everybody talks about doing it, but very few developers follow through - you guessed it, data backups! Perhaps it's a matter of getting burnt at least...

Managing EC2 Reservations with Ruby

over 4 years ago by Ilya Grigorik on igvita.com.
Over the course of past couple of weeks the guys (and gals!) at Amazon have hosted a number of great 'AWS Start-Up' events to evangelize their services...

Mongrel Timeout / Throttle Misnomer

over 4 years ago by Ilya Grigorik on igvita.com.
Earlier today I made an intriguing discovery while perusing through the Mongrel documentation. Perhaps an oversight on my part, but arguably also a real...

Subqueries and SQL Syntax Sugar Diet

over 4 years ago by Ilya Grigorik on igvita.com.
In theory, theory and practice are the same, in practice they are usually not. Likewise, the syntactic sugar provided by modern SQL databases comes with...

SSMTP Relay & Mail Delivery in Rails

over 4 years ago by Ilya Grigorik on igvita.com.
Role separation and vertical scaling between the database and the app servers is almost taken for granted, but is no reason that we can't do this for mail...

Pseudo Reverse Indexes in MySQL

over 4 years ago by Ilya Grigorik on igvita.com.
When the database grows at a rate of several hundred thousand records a day (AideRSS) you inevitably run into interesting 'features' of the underlying engine...

Reconstructing Request URIs in Rails

over 4 years ago by Ilya Grigorik on igvita.com.
When building AideRSS we needed to process full URIs as query strings in our app (for example: http://www.aiderss.com/all/igvita.com/blog/) - sounds simple...

Beyond Ruby: Mirah, Reia, Rite

~1 year ago by Ilya Grigorik on igvita.com.
Programmer productivity and fun are both core design goals behind the Ruby language. Matz has always placed high emphasis on both in his interviews, and...