Monthly Archives: January 2007

Contegix support perhaps too good

I’m writing this w/o any prompting from the folks at Contegix, I ‘ve been just really pleased with these guys this week, and wanted to put a few kind words out there.
So we switched to Contegix not that long ago for prx, and I have to say, these guys are a class act. It’s [...]

Amazon Web Services (AWS) S3 working, now back to the plan

I’ve been spending the last few days working with the AWS::S3 library.
Works well – we are streaming large audio files over it, so we needed something better than the ruby s3 bindings amazon released (though they are very clear in their code that they do not handle big files well).
Only hitch was setting metadata when [...]

ruby stomp gem version 1.0.3 released

Thanks to Brian McCallister, he put in the changes I mentioned.
This should make the changes to a13g cleaner, and we can now take advantage of having the reconnect wait time configurable.
All in all, it makes a13g closer to implementing a ‘reliable’ listening service.
There is one sorta ugly bit, the __old_receive method was a fine way [...]

ActiveMessaging (a13g)

Jon Tirsen and friends created a great product, ActiveMessaging, to incorporate into Rails the ability to send and receive Stomp messages – specifically, this seems to mostly be used with ActiveMQ and its Stomp protocol support, and depends on the Ruby Stomp client courtesy Brian McCallister.
Since I am using a13g quite actively at prx, Jon [...]