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Or you could just use http://www.jruby.org/ or http://rubini.us/.

I suppose it depends on what you're using ruby for. I use it for long running processes like rails apps so the jvm startup time really doesn't matter. And jruby has support for c extensions that use ffi.

Why not use http://jruby.org?

Would have been nice to see the jruby boot tests using nailgun (http://kenai.com/projects/jruby/pages/JRubyWithNailgun) to remove the jvm startup times from the results.

hulu uses rails...do they use jruby?

Here's one of the more popular CMU schedulers: https://scheduleman.org/

sublime text, linode, filezilla, msysgit, 5pmweb, firefox + firebug, firefox + sqlite manager, console2 + powershell

RF Culbertson just rapped about being fearless...wow RF is the man

I wonder what kind of latency hit you get from routing your requests through a proxy and more importantly how long the polling delay of the BRIDGE requests are.

Btw, I think your website is down?

http://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/http://www.alfajango.com/...

And for those using nginx use this nginx.conf (read the comments for all the details):

http://brainspl.at/nginx.conf.txt

It'd be nice if Cherokee had a "Cherokee In Production" section that listed a couple companies/websites that use Cherokee. Benchmarks are nice but I'd rather see it in action.

Emiller's Guide to Nginx Module Development: http://emiller.info/nginx-modules-guide.html

Emiller's Advanced Topics In Nginx Module Development: http://www.evanmiller.org/nginx-modules-guide-advanced.html

I love nginx, but one thing that I wish nginx could do is be able to enable/disable modules without having to recompile. It's annoying having to recompile nginx whenever a new version of passenger is released.

It'd be nice to see something like this done for linode and rackspace as well.

Reminds me of independence day: http://www.takoma.com/ssthenagain/Alien%20Ship.jpg

Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gxFaGKHbEY

Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-JXDELFoSLU

Part 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YgBkIg9gKYY

Part 4: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_mZ9lKptKb0

Part 5: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6aA2svGfvc

Part 6: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5uhpj5XQEOA

How do people handle including this javascript within an IE conditional statement in rails? Is there a way to handle it with rails helpers or do people just add it to their views manually?

Some of the public entries are hilarious

It's nice to see linode's library finally catch up to slicehost's articles. For a while it was really bare but now I prefer it over slicehost as slicehost articles is starting to become cluttered with all the old distro specific categories. One thing that is still missing from linode's library is nginx.

AOL's logo redesign is crazy...what were they thinking?

When it comes down to it for rails deployment your going to maximize the number of workers you have based on the amount of available memory. I'd like to see a test where they set the number of workers equal to the amount that fit within 512MB's of ram or something similar. I'd say using passenger + ree you'd be able to double or triple the number of workers for the same amount of memory and blow the rest of the stacks out of the water.

It didn't affect all hosts.

You can get a good look at the linode control panel at http://www.linode.com/features.cfm

Linode will charge you at the beginning of your billing cycle and if you ever resize, which you can do automatically through the control panel, you will receive a credit for how much you didn't use.

I believe linode has a 7-day money-back trial period for testing as well.