I’ve posted earlier about my attempts to find the perfect development environment on Linux, an environment that would match the elegance and ease of TextMate on OS X.  I’ve always been a fan of the freedom that you get with Linux and I’ve been willing to sacrifice prettiness as long as the environment is intuitive and easy to use.

Matt Wilson and I have been making some awesome new updates to CurbFu - our convenient wrapper for Ruby’s curb gem - itself an wrapper around libcurl.

Recently I was working on a project adding new functionality that would queue a long-running task to a background job. The original code looked something like this:

I’m really excited about the upcoming Great Lakes Ruby Bash in Ann Arbor on October 11th.  The distinguished Rubyists of the Grand Rapids Ruby Users Group are joining forces with us (Ann Arbor Ruby group) to put the conference together.  After attending eRubyCon in Columbus last weekend, I have to say the local conferences are much more engaging than the mega-conferences like RailsConf.  It’s great being able to get a chance to talk to everyone.  Hope to see you there!

Today I gleefully updated BackgrounDRb to 1.0.4 after I learned that a new release was out that supported clustered BDRb servers.  I quickly learned that regiester_status has been removed.  That’s right.  All that code that sends data from your workers to your app need to be refactored to put data into cache[job_key].  This approach is more thread-safe, however.  Perhaps you could even write your own wrapper that puts data into cache on a call to register_status.

Continuing the meme: