Fubaredness Is Contagious

This past summer, we needed to automate testing of several failure scenarios for VPN-Cubed. Having asked the LazyWeb about any frameworks that could help us and having gotten no response, our dev team had a short chat in the office. We decided that ultimately we were going to have to roll out our own system [...]

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Shell was among the first things I got familiar with when I was introduced to Linux. It’s not a typical programming language, primarily due to lack of easy-to-use high-level data structures such as hashes and arrays (anticipating your objection to this – note I said “easy-to-use”). This may explain why I often get funny looks [...]

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I recently pushed a Rabbitbal update to Github – http://github.com/somic/rabbitbal.
The biggest enhancement (IMHO) is ability to increase or decrease the number of backend consumers based on any HTTP request headers. In “table” routing mode (see rabbitbal.yml), you can now specify array of tests against which incoming request headers will be matched. This will cause your [...]

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A quick note. This blog is getting a lot of google referrals for people looking for “rabbitmq rails”. I just wanted to say that I do not have good up-to-date material on the subject. Instead, check out this thread on ruby-amqp mailing list and consider tmm1-amqp gem for your project.

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Inspired by Nanite, a very interesting project by Ezra Zygmuntowicz of EngineYard that uses RabbitMQ and eventmachine-based ruby amqp library by Aman Gupta, I sat down and wrote Rabbitbal, a reverse proxy for Rails (as well as other web frameworks, not necessarily limited to Ruby) on top of RabbitMQ. It’s now available on github at [...]

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