Blog Archive » June 2008

Responses to "benny the rock" on Zend Framework

Updated: June 25, 2008June 20, 2008

Another misguided individual, benny, put some rather pointless opinions about Zend Framework on my blog post . I replied to them, here, in a new blog entry: > It probably took you lots of time to rant about this why not use the time more productively? In my defense, I had been coding in Rails all that day, so my increased productivity had me out ahead of the game. I...

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More silly Zend Framework idiocy..

Updated: June 17, 2008June 16, 2008

This really misguided individual, Matthew Ratzloff , put some rather stupid comments and opinions about Zend Framework on my blog post . I replied to them, here, in a new blog entry: > Ugh. I'm having flashbacks from my computer science days, For me, in my daily work in genetics research, every day is a "computer science" day. I'm sad for you that yours seem to...

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Benchmarking Rails: Mongrel versus mod_rails

Updated: June 10, 2008June 1, 2008

After I setup one of my Rails applications to use mod_rails yesterday, I decided today to benchmark the new setup against my old Mongrel setup. In a nutshell, I found mod_rails to be slightly faster. It certainly wasn't a huge margin of victory, but I'll take it. :) I ran these benchmark tests three times each and took the best ones. I did this to account for other tr...

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How To Deploy Rails Using mod_rails On Apache

Updated: June 1, 2008May 31, 2008

I've just spent my afternoon evaluating mod_rails . I must say I am very, very impressed so far. The install is fairly simple. Here's how I did mine: First I installed the "passenger" gem: gem install passenger Next, I used passenger to build a mod_rails module for Apache: passenger-install-apache2-module At the end of the mod_rails build proces...

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