I just pushed up some experimental, alpha quality code for asynchronously persisting Ruby objects to disk at my GitHub repository. Again, this is very early, alpha quality code with minimal, incomplete testing. I took the idea that Redis and other Key-Value stores use to provide fast reads/writes while providing persistence. I plan to allow for more customization with different types of triggers (like Redis allows), but for now it simply synchronizes the data on a regular interval.

Allows for persisting single objects or a class of objects (though there are some conflict resolution problems with multiple objects pointing to the same file).

This post on Queueing in Ruby with AMQP covers installing Erlang, RabbitMQ, and the Ruby AMQP library as well as performing some very rudimentary queueing and dequeueing snippets.

Halcyon 0.5.4 has been released! Minor improvements including support for controllers nested in modules and POST bodies formatted as application/json!

Check out the Halcyon home page.

Halcyon 0.5.3 has been released! Halcyon is a web application development framework focused on service-oriented applications such as APIs et al. This update includes a major bug fix with the client setting the Content-Type header incorrectly, brought to light by the recent release of Rack 0.4.0.

Halcyon 0.5.2 has been released! Halcyon is a web application development framework focused on service-oriented applications such as APIs et al. This update includes several major bug fixes and incorporates ExtLib (an abstraction of Merb's and DataMapper's Core Extensions).

Halcyon 0.5.1 has been released! Halcyon is a web application development framework focused on service-oriented applications such as APIs et al. This update includes several minor improvements and bug fixes including a new configuration system and before/after filters.

The newest version of Halcyon (0.5.0) is now released and is ready to be installed. This version of Halcyon includes a complete refactoring and redesign to be more like the MVC applications you're used to and completely removes all code based on server operation (letting the servers do the work). Halcyon is still Rack-based, etc. Check out the announcement and the official website with all new documentation!

Geoffrey Grosenbach talks about his experience with mod_rails.

Scout, the easier way to monitor servers and web applications, finally opens to the public!