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unak / history.txt
Last active November 29, 2021 01:40
The History of Ruby
* Only the releases of the stable versions are listed in principle. The releases of the unstable versions especially considered to be important are indicated as "not stable."
* The branches used as the source of each releases are specified, and the branching timing of them are also shown. BTW, before subversionizing of the repository, the term called "trunk" was not used, but this list uses it in order to avoid confusion.
* In order to show a historical backdrop, big conferences (RubyKaigi, RubyConf and Euruko) are also listed. About the venues of such conferences, general English notations are adopted, in my hope.
* ruby_1_8_7 branch was recut from v1_8_7 tag after the 1.8.7 release because of an accident.
* 1.2.1 release was canceled once, and the 2nd release called "repack" was performed. Although there were other examples similar to this, since the re-releases were performed during the same day, it does not write clearly in particular.
* Since 1.0 was released with the date in large quantities, the mi

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@perplexes
perplexes / Rakefile.rb
Created June 4, 2012 16:00
How to have multithreaded workers in delayed_job 3.0.3 and Ruby 1.9.3 and Rails 3.2.2
task :workers => :environment do
module Delayed
class Worker
def name_with_thread_id(*a, &b)
name_without_thread_id(*a, &b) + " thread:#{Thread.current.object_id}"
end
alias_method_chain :name, :thread_id
end
end
Rails.logger.info "Running threaded worker env."
@jboner
jboner / latency.txt
Last active May 5, 2024 03:12
Latency Numbers Every Programmer Should Know
Latency Comparison Numbers (~2012)
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L1 cache reference 0.5 ns
Branch mispredict 5 ns
L2 cache reference 7 ns 14x L1 cache
Mutex lock/unlock 25 ns
Main memory reference 100 ns 20x L2 cache, 200x L1 cache
Compress 1K bytes with Zippy 3,000 ns 3 us
Send 1K bytes over 1 Gbps network 10,000 ns 10 us
Read 4K randomly from SSD* 150,000 ns 150 us ~1GB/sec SSD
@lloeki
lloeki / foo_controller.rb
Created May 29, 2012 07:05
Streaming (CSV) data in Rails 3.2
class FooController
respond_to :csv
def index
@foos = Foo.scoped
if stale?(:last_modified => Foo.something)
respond_with @gta do |format|
format.csv { stream_csv @foo }
end
end
@wycats
wycats / 0_app.rb
Created April 19, 2012 10:22
Example of using a simple future library for parallel HTTP requests
class TicketsController < ApplicationController
def show
tickets = params[:tickets].split(",")
ticket_data = tickets.map do |ticket|
parallel { Faraday.get("http://tickets.local/#{ticket}") }
end
render json: { tickets: ticket_data.map(&:result) }
end
@mrsimo
mrsimo / hack.sh
Created April 4, 2012 08:34 — forked from erikh/hack.sh
OSX For Hackers
#!/usr/bin/env sh
##
# This is script with usefull tips taken from:
# https://github.com/mathiasbynens/dotfiles/blob/master/.osx
#
# install it:
# curl -sL https://raw.github.com/gist/2299719/hack.sh | sh
#
@karmi
karmi / .gitignore
Created March 16, 2012 16:09
Bootstrap, install and configure ElasticSearch with Chef Solo
.DS_Store
Gemfile.lock
*.pem
node.json
tmp/*
!tmp/.gitignore
@albertoperdomo
albertoperdomo / 0-readme.md
Created February 21, 2012 12:47 — forked from burke/0-readme.md
ruby-1.9.3-p125 cumulative performance patch.

Patched ruby 1.9.3-p125 for 30% faster rails boot

What is?

This script installs a patched version of ruby 1.9.3-p125 with patches to make ruby-debug work again (#47) and boot-time performance improvements (#66 and #68), and runtime performance improvements (#83 and #84).

Huge thanks to funny-falcon for the performance patches.

@burke
burke / 0-readme.md
Created January 27, 2012 13:44 — forked from funny-falcon/cumulative_performance.patch
ruby-1.9.3-p327 cumulative performance patch for rbenv

ruby-1.9.3-p327 cumulative performance patch for rbenv

This installs a patched ruby 1.9.3-p327 with various performance improvements and a backported COW-friendly GC, all courtesy of funny-falcon.

Requirements

You will also need a C Compiler. If you're on Linux, you probably already have one or know how to install one. On OS X, you should install XCode, and brew install autoconf using homebrew.