Can anyone tell me where to find it?  Does it even exist? I’ve been looking for a good Rails host recently, one that’s running Apache/Mongrel or something business class.  Apache mod_ruby was a terrible at best, FastCGI was better at handling threads and serving content, but now that we’ve got a native Ruby solution, that seems the best way to go. But it’s so expensive (at least for a personal blog).  I’ve looked at MediaTemple, [...]

Well, after spending a few frustrated hours on Saturday, I’ve got a working application that uses memcached. And when I use the word application, I use it very loosely. It’s basically a page that sets the current time into the session. Now originally I followed this tutorial and installed the necessary gems in order to cache the ActiveRecord objects into memcached. I followed all instructions exactly as instructed, but starting the memcached server in verbose [...]

This was a strange exception that I struggled with for several hours this evening, but I have finally prevailed. The Background For my Information Architecture class, we’ve got to create a web service provider and a web service requester, this provided the initial impetus for my recent push into web services and the last few posts dedicated to the topic. Now our professor has published a web service that basically dumps his database out into [...]

This could also be considered part three of my HowTo: Put WSDL on Rails series, but it’s not really a HowTo in the strictest sense of the word. Therefore, this article is more of a monologue than a set of instructions. If you’ve stuck with me this far you’ve probably figured out that I’m discovering things on my own shortly before I spew them all out here. In Howto: Put WSDL on Rails we built [...]

In the first article about WSDL on Rails we created our own web service that accepted a string, modified it, and returned a new string. Now we’ll take a look at creating another application that can consume or subscribe to our web service. This is almost too easy. I figure the best way to demonstrate the simplicity is to keep this article as short as possible. 1. Fire up the old WebServiceProvider application that we [...]