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A small note to all the FreeBSD folks about Ruby performance. While trying to tune Mongrel to run faster on FreeBSD I was stumped as to why it was so horribly slow compared to Linux. Linux on the same machine was getting about 800 req/sec, and FreeBSD was maybe pushing 23 req/sec. Pathetic. I managed to tweak the thread model in Mongrel and get FreeBSD up to about 210 req/sec but still that

I sure hope so: http://duckdown.blogspot.com/2006/03/additional-thoughts-on-why-ruby-isnt.html Seems like it''s getting genuine rebuttals, though. It''s actually kind of amusing.

...ass It turns out that I was missing the GD libs for ruby. I''m on ubuntu, so a quick sudo install libgd-ruby solved the problem for me. I also found resources for OS X and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4: OS X: http://lukewarmtapioca.com/2007/02/06/gd-on-osx-and-ruby-stringft/ Red Hat: http://involution.com/2007/06/11/problems-with-rubys-captcha-gem/ -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I''ve been working my way through the Agile book and just completed the depot sample application. I learned quite a bit along the way. On page 171 we are led through the creation of a test (that fails) for new code. The new code (a search function) is left as an exercise for the reader. Well, I think I solved it but I''m not

I''m looking to do something similar to the "secret URLs" in Rails Recipes, however, with file downloads. I want to avoid providing direct URLs to people if possible. I have files on disk in public/, so it would be good if each user got a "unique" URL to each file that they are permitted to see (dealt with by a user_id/file_id table). Then they are only allowed

hi, is there a way i can configure my localhost to receive email using smtp? i can out emails fine but now would like to test/get-to-know how to handle incoming emails. if on my localhost:3000, do i do anything like below? ActionMailer::Base.server_settings = { :address=>''smtp.yourserver.com'', # default: localhost :port=>''25'',

I have: d <- sample(10:100, 9) o <- order(d) r <- d[o] How I can get d (in the original order), knowing only r and o? Thanks - Wolfram

I realize this subject is redundant for this community, but I''m hoping the Rails community can provide me with some additional ammunition to help push a rails project I''m pitching over the proverbial tipping point at my company. The Situation: I''m the lead architect at a large bay area retailer. My team and I are currently suffering through the process of paying

Basically, we needed to authenticate against the cookie written by Ruby. It turns out that you can write a cookie for the entire TLD of *.example.com from Instiki (Rails). So, I changed the cookie writing code in the wiki_controller to the following. # app/controllers/wiki_controller.rb cookies[''ldap_username_2006''] = {:value =>emailaddress, :expires