Ruby on Rails Archives

IronWorker vs. Ruby/Rails Worker

By Nick | December 23, 2020 |

Overview Architecture: IronWorker is an on-demand async task processing software for container-based workloads. Ruby on Rails (or Rails) is a server-side web application framework written in the programming language Ruby. Note: A “worker” on IronWorker Rails is a priority queue system that executes tasks outside of the application framework. IronWorker is created on the Docker container…

Buzzwords: Microservices, Containers and Serverless at Goto Chicago

By Iron | June 7, 2016 |

It was an honor to give a talk on the future of Serverless at goto Chicago, an enterprise developer conference running from May 24 to 25, 2016. As you can see from the full room, containers, microservices and serverless are popular topics with developers, and this interest extends across a wide swath of back-end languages,…

Rails Meetup March 2016: Rails Performance Optimization, Bundler, + Internationalization

By Iron | April 7, 2016 |

At Iron.io, we love to give back to the coding community in our hometown of San Francisco by hosting developer events through the SF Rails Meetup and the GoSF Golang Meetup. Our March 2016 meetup was a triple threat of talks on performance optimization, dependency management, and internationalization.

SF Rails: Reduce Complexity and Simplify Code

By Iron | February 18, 2016 |

Last night we swung by the snazzy DevBootCamp offices. Our goal? To learn from the fine folks joining us at the SF Rails meetup. The topics included DCI, a comparison of static site generators to traditional CMS, and how workers are better fit than functional programming for reactive infrastructure. Heady stuff! Keep reading for a preview…

#SFRails: Scaling ElasticSearch + Advanced Ruby Tricks

By Iron | October 23, 2015 |

Last night a near 100 folks showed up at Hotel Tonight’s swank downtown offices to get nerdy about Rails. There’s still a lot of excitement, innovation, and love happening in the Ruby world. After a bit of pre-show socialization with our fellow devs, the crowd settled in to hear the talks of the evening.

Treasure Data and IronWorker (repost)

By Iron | May 29, 2015 |

Overview Our friends at Treasure Data wrote a blog post about data collection in Ruby and how to run multiple data collection tasks in parallel (or scheduled) using IronWorker. The example from Treasure Data demonstrates what it takes to build a simple logging application in Ruby with IronWorker to manage and log the output to…