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Websocket Shootout: Clojure, C++, Elixir, Go, NodeJS, and Ruby
When a web application has a requirement for real time bidirectional communication, websockets are the natural choice. But what tools should be used to build a websocket server? Performance is important, but so is the development process. A perfor...




Top 8 tools for Ruby on Rails code optimization and cleanup
Keeping your code clean and organized while developing a large Rails application can be quite a challenge, even for an experienced developer. Fortunately, there is a whole category of gems that make this job much easier.
For most people, dead/ine...


Increase Your Rails Application Reporting Speed by 10x with Sunspot's Stored Values
In my previous post I introduced Solr and Sunspot along with a basic use case to get up and running with Rails. Here, I’ll dive in to what originally brought me to Sunspot, stored attributes. Wouldn’t it be great if you could dynamically generate ...