Paul Boone

I just finished running benchmarks on Merb 0.9.5 and Rails 2.0.2 across a number of servers in both MRI C Ruby 1.8.6 and JRuby 1.1.4. The test consisted of one action that retrieves one model object via ActiveRecord and renders the contents of that object via a simple template in erb. I’ve uploaded both apps. I did [...]

As promised, here are the slides from my talk last night on Merb at the East Bay Ruby Meetup. Merb, not rails? A practical introduction to a new framework. Please ignore the performance results in the slides and instead refer to the updated merb / rails performance comparison.

Make sure you have the JRuby warbler gem installed. Create a warble config file from the root directory of your merb application. The command should look something like this: jruby -S warble config. The file will be placed at config/warble.rb. Edit line 55 of warble.rb to read: config.webxml.booter = :merb Edit line 33 of warble.rb to read: config.gems = ["merb-core","merb-more"]. [...]

If you use Tim Pease’s ruby Logging library in conjunction with Test::Unit, you must make sure to require ‘logging’ before you require ‘test/unit’. Both Logging and Test::Unit make use of Ruby’s at_exit method hook: Logging uses it to close any appenders (e.g. if you are writing a log to a file, it closes the file), and Test::Unit [...]

This is an initial release of an XStandard WYSIWYG Module for OpenCms 7+. From the XStandard website: XStandard is the leading standards-compliant plug-in WYSIWYG editor for desktop applications and browser-based content management systems (IE/Firefox/Safari/Opera). The editor generates clean XHTML Strict or 1.1, and uses CSS for formatting, to ensure the clean separation of content from presentation. The editor is [...]