Comments on: Upcoming Ruby Enterprise Edition improvements thanks to sponsorship campaign

By: Hongli

Hongli — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 16:06:51 +0000

@Peter Cooper: Yes we do accept small donations. There’s a Donation page on the Ruby Enterprise Edition website. Cool that you’re going to mention Phusion Passenger. If you need our Paypal address, it’s info@phusion.nl.

@gnufied: Ruby Enterprise Edition currently has:
- Copy-on-write garbage collector optimizations.
- The tcmalloc memory allocator. This memory allocator proved to be beneficial to performance and copy-on-write semantics.
- Packaging (i.e. an installer).

The next version will also include:
- Philippe Hanrigou’s caller_for_all_threads patch. Phusion Passenger will support this feature as well. This should make it a lot easier to debug frozen multi-threaded web applications.
- The RailsBench GC patches, allowing one to tweak the garbage collector’s performance.

By: gnufied

gnufied — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 12:44:47 +0000

I have been following this on ruby-core for a long time and reason given by Matz and others at that time was it slows down Ruby (but COW can be turned on and off). Apart from GC, is there a summary of changes it makes to ruby?

By: Sur

Sur — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 02:56:24 +0000

it’s been a good experience using R2E + Passenger. I’ve not faced any problem with any of the libraries.

Thanks for your great work, Hongli & Ninh.

By: Dan Haskins

Dan Haskins — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 18:39:04 +0000

@David Reese: It’s totally your loss then. I just started using Passenger with Ruby Enterprise about a week ago and I have been incredibly happy with it so far. I don’t care what it’s called as long as it works.

By: David Reese

David Reese — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 17:12:39 +0000

Following DHH’s lead…

I’d like to propose a new round of donations to the “Rename Ruby Enterprise Edition” fund. How much would it take to have you take the “enterprise” out of the name? What about “Two feet one ruby slipper”?

I think I speak for a lot of us in rubyland who would never install ANYTHING with the word “enterprise” in the name…

By: Peter Cooper

Peter Cooper — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 14:45:29 +0000

Do you have any plans or a facility for more casual donations towards your cause? I ask, because a lot of people don’t read DHH’s Twitter account, or would like to donate (but not sponsor, as such) smaller amounts out of appreciation, etc. Also, Passenger might be getting a mention on Ruby Inside soon and it’d be interesting to see whether a lot of people would be keen on donating. If you have a PayPal account, I imagine it should be easy to rig up. Just PayPal on its own, or through something like Pledgie: http://www.pledgie.com/

By: Hongli

Hongli — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 12:57:07 +0000

It should work exactly like any other Ruby library. You just need to make sure it’s compiled/installed against REE instead of your system’s Ruby. Please refer to Xapian’s installation manual.

By: Egze

Egze — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 12:21:31 +0000

Great news!

Unfortunately, I recently had to switch back from REE, because it didn’t have Xapian bindings (I use acts_as_xapian for search) and I have no idea how to compile then. Any ideas?

I need these 2 packages to work with REE: libxapian15 libxapian-ruby1.8