willurd

Each of these commands will run an ad hoc http static server in your current (or specified) directory, available at http://localhost:8000. Use this power wisely.

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Python 2.x

$ python -m SimpleHTTPServer 8000

kyrylo

Constant lookup in Ruby can happen lexically or through the ancestry tree of the receiver(a class or module). You can identify which lookup rules are being applied by the context you're in or by the syntax being used to define a class or module.

A class body that is defined as class A::B::C; …; end will lookup constants through the ancestry tree when a constant is evaluated in its class body. Anytime you see A::B::C being used as syntax to define a class or lookup the value of a constant the ancestry tree is being used for the lookup.

jrochkind

Thread Pools

A Thread Pool is an abstraction that you can give a unit of work to, and the work will be executed by one of possibly several threads in the pool. One motivation for using thread pools is the overhead of creating and destroying threads. Creating a pool of reusable worker threads then repeatedly re-using threads from the pool can have huge performace benefits for a long-running application like a service.

concurrent-ruby also offers some higher level abstractions than thread pools. For many problems, you will be better served by using one of these -- if you are thinking of using a thread pool, we especially recommend you look at and understand Futures before deciding to use thread pools directly instead. Futures are implemented using thread pools, but offer a higher level abstraction.

But there are some problems for which directly using a thread pool is an appropriate solution. Or, you may wish to make your own thread pool to run Futures on, to be separate or have different characterist

drmalex07

README

Services declared as oneshot are expected to take some action and exit immediatelly (thus, they are not really services, no running processes remain). A common pattern for these type of service is to be defined by a setup and a teardown action.

Let's create a example foo service that when started creates a file, and when stopped it deletes it.

Define setup/teardown actions

Create executable file /opt/foo/setup-foo.sh: