Weighttp is threaded and might exhaust resources of an application better than ApacheBench or httperf. You need libev installed.
We proudly release our safe_cookies middleware into public beta and just published it on Github. Features are:
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After running bundler / gem install I could not load nokogiri lately. It died with cannot load such file -- nokogiri/nokogiri.
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Consul 0.10.0 now allows multiple power mappings for nested resources. When using nested resources you probably want two power
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In Rails 5 you can say: ApplicationController.render( :template => 'users/index', :layout => 'my_layout', :assigns => { users: @users } ) If a Request Environment is...
The new exception_notification has awesome options like :ignore_crawlers => true and :ignore_if => lambda {...
...}. These options should be helpful...
We tend to use database transactions as a magic bullet to get rid of all our concurrency problems. When things...
The linked page lists and explains global Ruby "dollar" variables, such as: $: (load path) $* (ARGV) $? (Last exit status) $$ (PID) $~ (MatchData...
Using CSS sprites for background images is a technique for optimizing page load time by combining smaller images into a...
A great and enjoyable introduction into the concept of the web and about what HTTP was designed for. The original...
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The Ruby on Rails security list archive can be found here: http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-security You can subscribe to this mailing...
In order to clone a git repository including all branches and tags you need to use two parameters when cloning...