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The defer method in EventMachine allows you to spawn processes in Ruby, like this (from comment in eventmachine.rb):
operation = proc { # perform a long-running operation here, such as a # database query. # as usual, the last expression evaluated in the block will #be the return value. } callback = proc {|result| # do something with result here, such as send it back # to a network client. } EventMachine.defer( operation, callback )New art on the wall, check it out.
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- Can anyone recommend a good hosted wiki for casual use? Some of the suggestions so far include pbwiki, MediaWiki (perhaps a bit heavy weight for personal use), and Google Pages.
Interesting
- Ian Mcfarland talks to Geoffrey Grosenbach about Pivotal's agile culture in the May 17 episode of the Rails Podcast. Check it our here.
- This Wednesday's brown bag will be a round table discussion about "Tracker and the client: The real vs. the ideal". Lunch provided, as always.
- When something in Rails isn't working as expected, it may just be a bug that's been reported or fixed recently. Is a good idea to check the the Trac tickets at dev.rubyonrails.org.
Help
- Rails rcov seems to get stuck in an infinite loop on Leopard.
- Anyone know a good general practitioner within walking distance of the office?
- Confirm dialogs are tripping up Selenium (8.1) on one of our projects. Something related to focus, perhaps?
- What does Ní Hea mean?