Category Archives: Ruby

MRuby, JIT, and ArangoDB at RuPy 2012

@moonbeamlabs and I hold a workshop about ArangoDB and the Ruby driver Ashikawa, which will hopefully become one of the first DataMapper 2 NoSQL drivers. Currently, we are using the aequitas and virtus components of DataMapper 2. Slides of theaaa

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MRuby Links

I’ve started the following collection of links, example code, projects, and articles about mruby. This list is most likely not complete, if you have other interesting articles please let me know. Especially sample code and mruby projects. Article Daniel Bovensiepen,aaa

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CRuby vs MRuby FAQ

At our last Ruby user group meeting it was asked, what the differences between CRuby and MRuby are. @junjis0203 wrote a MRuby FAQ. Unfortunately, it’s in Japanese. I’ve tried to translate it using http://www.excite.co.jp/world/english/ & Google translate and added myaaa

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“Use-Cases for MRuby in a Database like ArangoDB” or “Can MRuby be the next PL/SQL?”

In the relational world, PL/SQL is used to store business/application logic inside the relational database. The same movement is currently happening in the NoSQL. Redis for example uses LUA script in its newest version (2.6), to allow developers to tweakaaa

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HTTP Client for MRuby

As Dorthe pointed out, we are on the road for the next two weeks.

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Meet us at Nosql matters, Berlin Buzzwords or EuRuKo

Just a quick note: We are on the road… you can meet us in person at the following conferences:

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JSON Parser for MRuby or how to define classes and exceptions in C

MRuby is progressing quite rapidly, it is now possible to implement a real REPL, see github. So, it is time to continue my efforts to integrate MRuby into ArangoDB. ArangoDB currently uses JavaScript to implement transactions and enrich the databaseaaa

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Talk: Using mruby with ArangoDB (@Cologne Ruby User Group)

Frank has given a short lightning talk on using mruby in ArangoDB (at this time still called AvocadoDB) at the Cologne Ruby user group.

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Preliminary Performance Tests for mruby and V8

Note: We changed the name of the database in May 2012. AvocadoDB is now called ArangoDB I’m still investigating the possibility to use mruby as embedded language for AvocadoDB, see me last post. I managed to create an interactive shellaaa

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Towards an interactive mruby shell

In my last post I investigated the possibility of using mruby as embedded language for AvocadoDB. As the first results look quite promising I decided to write a small interactive mruby shell. There is no better way to explore aaaa

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