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Performance comparison: Rails 1.2.6 vs 2.0.2

almost 4 years ago by Hongli on 赖洪礼的 blog. [Linked from: Riding Rails]
Featured post Is Rails deployment now a solved problem? Has it become as easy as just uploading files, and it works? There’s still a lot of misinformation...

Memory usage comparison: Rails 1.2.6 vs 2.0.2

almost 4 years ago by Hongli on 赖洪礼的 blog.
Featured post Is Rails deployment now a solved problem? Has it become as easy as just uploading files, and it works? I benchmarked Rails 1.2 vs 2.0 in...

Rails deployment a solved problem? Just upload & it works?

almost 4 years ago by Hongli on 赖洪礼的 blog.
A video says more than a thousand words, so just click on the video link below. http://www.modrails.com/ Is this for real? Yes people, this is real!...

RSpec patches

almost 4 years ago by Hongli on 赖洪礼的 blog.
I totally fell in love with RSpec. Although I’m not really into BDD, I’ve found that RSpec makes my tests easier to read and easier to organize. But...

Using custom RDoc templates in Ruby gems

almost 4 years ago by Hongli on 赖洪礼的 blog.
I think that the default RDoc template looks horrible. The colors are not good at all, and the top frames waste a lot of space. On the other hand, the Jamis...

Rails deployment: wouldn't it be great if it worked like this?

~4 years ago by Hongli on 赖洪礼的 blog.
Unless you’ve been living under a rock (or if you never read Ruby on Rails blogs), you should know that there has been a lot of complaints about Rails...

Ruby vs PHP performance

~4 years ago by Hongli on 赖洪礼的 blog.
It’s a well-known stereotype that “Ruby is slow”. People say it on Slashdot. People say it on OSNews. People say it on my MSN contact list. A few...

Making Ruby’s garbage collector copy-on-write friendly, part 7

~4 years ago by Hongli on 赖洪礼的 blog.
It turns out that part 6 was not final. I’ve been working on the garbage collector again. These are the changes: The garbage collector is now 20% faster...

What is so hard about Rails deployment?

~4 years ago by Hongli on 赖洪礼的 blog.
Recently there has been a lot of fuss about the ease of Rails deployment. People made various claims, such as “I’ve deployed PHP, Java, (insert something...

Beautifying Perl

~4 years ago by Hongli on 赖洪礼的 blog.
I totally fell in love with Ruby ever since I started using it more than a year ago. The language’s syntax and constructs are very, very elegant (with...