http://blog.erichsen.net I really do... Fri, 05 Dec 2008 21:56:05 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Or how my spec suite runtime went from 11 minutes and 10 seconds to 3 minutes and 29 seconds! The Rails project I am currently working on is developed using BDD. This means that is has a big, fat spec suite. Or to be more specific it has 10033 examples! This is ... http://blog.erichsen.net/2008/12/05/how-ree-and-gc-tuning-reduced-spec-suite-runtime-to-one-third/ A couple of weeks ago there was a post on the FiveRuns blog about automatically installing the Rails stack on an Ubuntu 8.04 VPS. I prefer to use Passenger and Ruby Enterprise Edition when running my Rails app, so inspired by the FiveRuns script I wrote my own version - here ... http://blog.erichsen.net/2008/10/16/automatic-rails-on-ubuntu-804-lts/ Today I gave a presentation at the Ruby Fools Copenhagen 2008 Conference. The presentation was about adding full text search to a Rails app. Here is a pdf with my presentation: Adding Full Text Search to Your Rails App The conference was arranged by the same crew doing the JAOO conference and most (all?) presentations ... http://blog.erichsen.net/2008/04/02/ruby-fools-presentation-slides/ Yesterday JRuby 1.1 RC2 was released and two days ago the glassfish gem v 0.1.1 was released. Lots of interesting stuff happening in JRuby land! I decided to take JRuby and the glassfish gem for a spin with a simple Rails application. Installing JRuby First step was to download and install JRuby. This ... http://blog.erichsen.net/2008/02/17/benchmarking-fun-with-jruby-11-rc2-glassfish-and-rails-202/ Yeah! I am a Rails contributor! In an application at work we are using a Rails REST application for the backend of the application and another Rails application as the frontend. The frontend application does not use the database at all but only the REST api provided by the backend application. When ... http://blog.erichsen.net/2007/12/28/my-first-rails-contribution/ Today Amazon announced the availability of S3 in Europe. Nice! Let's play with it! Please notice that I am located in Denmark and that all tests were performed on my 2048/512 ADSL line. Download the new version of Amazon S3 Authentication Tool for Curl Unzip it and create an .s3curl file containing you ... http://blog.erichsen.net/2007/11/06/experimenting-with-amazon-s3-eu-edition/ Last week I decided to try out Amazon EC2 mainly for running and testing Rails applications and so far it has been great fun! This blog posting describes how I created an Ubuntu 6.06 LTS server edition image for use with Amazon EC2. Download and install the EC2 command line tools curl -O ... http://blog.erichsen.net/2007/11/04/creating-an-amazon-ec2-ubuntu-606-lts-server-edition-image/ Operating System Boy, things have come a long way since I first installed SLS Linux on my pc using floppy discs back in 1994 :-) These days I prefer Ubuntu 6.06 LTS server edition. It is supported until 2011 - nice that you don't have to reinstall the server in a year ... http://blog.erichsen.net/2007/10/31/my-favourite-rails-stack/ A list of the presentations I have given in aarhus.rb (my local Ruby Brigade which I co-founded). HappyHour (internal time tracking app, RSpec, YSlow) Installation and Deployment of a Rails App (deprec, Capistrano) Hobo (notes in Danish) JRuby (notes in Danish) Rails Graph Plugins (Ziya and Gruff) Rails ... http://blog.erichsen.net/2007/10/27/my-rails-presentations/ In an earlier posting we saw that tv2.dk in August 2007 served 142.132.680 pages and that the average page size was 395K and the average number of requests per page was 54. How much traffic is this? Doing some math it turns out that approximately 54 TB traffic and 7.7 billion requests ... http://blog.erichsen.net/2007/10/27/tv2dk-traffic-costs/