anvaka

npm rank

This gist is updated daily via cron job and lists stats for npm packages:

1. Top 1,000 most depended-upon packages
2. Top 1,000 packages with largest number of dependencies
3. Top 1,000 packages with highest PageRank score

denji

Moved to git repository: https://github.com/denji/nginx-tuning

NGINX Tuning For Best Performance

For this configuration you can use web server you like, i decided, because i work mostly with it to use nginx.

Generally, properly configured nginx can handle up to 400K to 500K requests per second (clustered), most what i saw is 50K to 80K (non-clustered) requests per second and 30% CPU load, course, this was 2 x Intel Xeon with HyperThreading enabled, but it can work without problem on slower machines.

You must understand that this config is used in testing environment and not in production so you will need to find a way to implement most of those features best possible for your servers.

adamstac

Install and configure Sendmail on Ubuntu

This should help you get Sendmail installed with basic configuration on Ubuntu.

1. If sendmail isn't installed, install it: sudo apt-get install sendmail
2. Configure /etc/hosts file: nano /etc/hosts
3. Make sure the line looks like this: 127.0.0.1 localhost yourhostname
4. Run Sendmail's config and answer 'Y' to everything: sudo sendmailconfig
5. Restart apache sudo service apache2 restart

philipn

Running Ubuntu on a Macbook Air

You don't have to be a slave to OS X! Here's a guide to a sane dual-booting setup with Ubuntu 12.10 on your shiny MacBook Air. This is written and tested for a MacBook Air 5,2 (Mid 2012), but likely works the same with any modern Macbook.

Install according to instructions at this URL:

revathskumar

rake db:create

thil

require 'active_record'
require 'fileutils'

namespace :db do

  desc "loads database configuration in for other tasks to run"
  task :load_config do
    ActiveRecord::Base.configurations = db_conf
    ActiveRecord::Base.establish_connection db_conf
  end

kalmbach

namespace :db do
  require "sequel"
  Sequel.extension :migration
  DB = Sequel.connect(ENV['DATABASE_URL'])
  
  desc "Prints current schema version"
  task :version do    
    version = if DB.tables.include?(:schema_info)
      DB[:schema_info].first[:version]
    end || 0

markbates

In an earlier video we took a look at Rack to build incredibly lightweight web applications with Ruby. Rack's toolkit allowed us to quickly throw to get a working application, but we did have to put a little effort into it once we wanted to build something a little more complex.

Sometimes you want a fast and simple framework for building a simple web application. Perhaps you only need to respond to a handful of routes, or you want the response time for a small part of a bigger application to be lighting fast. The Sinatra framework is made for just these moments.

Today let's take a quick look at this framework and see how quickly we can build lightweight web applications.

To get started we first need to install the Sinatra gem:

gem install sinatra