TorqueBox

The latest incremental builds of TorqueBox (build 538 and newer) support pluggable message encoding. This paves the way for interoperability via messaging with applications written in languages other than Ruby. In the ... [More] process, we also replaced the default message encoding scheme with one that is considerably faster, and made it easy for you to create your own encodings. What do we mean by 'message encoding'? To send data via JMS messages, we need to convert Ruby object trees into serial streams of data. If the object tree in question is simply a Ruby string, that's easy - we can just send the string itself. But... [Less]

If you haven't heard by now, TorqueBox 2.x is powered by JBoss AS7 which claims to be blazingly fast and lightweight. So, naturally, we want to put those claims to the test and see how TorqueBox 2.x stacks up against ... [More] the competition. Building on what we've learned from previous benchmarks (round 1, round 2), this latest round of benchmarking compares the performance of Spree running under: TorqueBox on JRuby 1.6.4 Trinidad 1.2.3 on JRuby 1.6.4 Passenger 3.0.9 standalone on REE and Ruby 1.9.2 Unicorn 4.1.1 on REE and Ruby 1.9.2 Even if you're not a fan of JRuby, stick around to see how... [Less]

TorqueBox is Atomic, Dog Ever since I came to work at Red Hat, my boss' boss, the JBoss CTO and reputed transactions expert, has been politely nagging us to bring transactions to TorqueBox. Well, I'm proud to ... [More] announce we finally got around to it: TorqueBox 2.x features distributed XA transaction support in what we believe is a darn elegant Ruby API… because it's mostly transparent. ;) Few things get an enterprise architect's blood pumping (boiling?) more than distributed transactions, though many anti-enterprisyists dismiss them as heavyweight, preferring comparatively complex alternatives, e.g. idempotent receiver, that are arguably just as resource-intensive and often more error-prone. To those naysayers, we proudly say "Pfffftt!" The goal of... [Less]

The Strange Loop 2011 conference was held in St. Louis this past Sunday-Tuesday. It was a really fun event, and I learned about lots of not-necesssarily-ruby stuff. It was nice to mix things up a little. Alex Miller ... [More] did a great job with the event. It was well organized, had plenty of video coverage, and excellent speakers. Gerald Sussman blew my mind with crazy math and then said he wasn't really a mathematician, and Erik Meijer opened my eyes to coSQL. From the Strange Loop website, Strange Loop is a multi-disciplinary conference that aims to bring together the developers and thinkers building tomorrow's technology in fields such... [Less]