Archive for the “ruby” category

Practicing safe Ruby, with safely

by Kenneth Kalmer on April 14, 2011

One of the things that makes daemon-kit such a great project (at least to me), is the built-in “safely” method wraps your code in a loving embrace of error reporting comfort. You could at any point do this: safely do (…)

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daemon-kit 0.1.8 released

by Kenneth Kalmer on August 4, 2010

I’m proud to announce that daemon-kit has finally made it to 0.1.8.1, almost a year after the last patch release. There has been a lot of changes since the last release, mostly cleanly up and staying with the times (so (…)

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Paginating documents with couchrest and will_paginate

by Kenneth Kalmer on February 8, 2010

CouchDB is hands down my favorite of the NoSQL variants and offers some pretty spectacular features, none of which I will bore you with in this post. I will however jot down how I (fairly easily) achieved pagination with couchrest (…)

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Correlating documents in CouchDB

by Kenneth Kalmer on December 13, 2009

I’m in the very fortunate position, two actually, of being able to 1) migrate my biggest production application from MySQL to CouchDB, and 2) build a stunning new system for a multinational welfare organization on top of CouchDB. I’ve been (…)

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