From: Vassilis Rizopoulos <eldestdamphyr@...>
Date: 2011-11-13T02:53:53+09:00
Subject: Re: Share stories about using Ruby outside of pet projects

On 12/11/11 08:21 , Kevin wrote:
> I recently decided to take another stab at Clojure and came across
> this blog:http://corfield.org/blog/  where I read a few articles
> dealing with how Sean Corfield employs Clojure for WorldSingles.  I
> think it is great to see various scenarios where a language and its'
> features are employed to solve everyday problems that might crop up on
> the job.  Seeing as this is a Ruby mailing list i would appreciate it
> if those of you who have had the opportunity to use Ruby in the course
> of your employment might share some of the things you did, problems
> you faced and general gotchas.
>
>
Well, it's not exactly a case study, but I've built and maintain a build 
system in Ruby (on top of rake of course) for my current project and 
been grappling with windows and performance issues.
Written a few blog posts with a few gotchas when using rake on windows - 
such a shameless plug, I know.

http://ampelofilosofies.gr/software/2011/05/10/ruby-performance-what-a-difference-the-compiler-makes/

http://ampelofilosofies.gr/software/2011/05/20/rake-performance-sh-im-working/

http://ampelofilosofies.gr/software/2011/06/08/rake-performance-check-the-mirror/

http://ampelofilosofies.gr/software/2011/08/09/script-performance/

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