<div dir="ltr">I feel like hoping and waiting for such things as the GIL issue to be solved by the ruby core team, (IMHO it probably won't happen) and for complex concurrency issues to be solved by the Rails team are not the most proactive approaches you could take to solve what at heart are probably application performance concerns.<div>
<div><br><div>Have you considered things like <a href="http://www.rabbitmq.com/tutorials/tutorial-one-ruby.html">AMQP</a> or <a href="https://github.com/brandonhilkert/sucker_punch">actors</a>?</div></div></div><div><br></div>
<div>I think these are some of the most common ways people in the ruby community seem to solve performance issues.</div><div><br></div><div>> <span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.800000190734863px">About to drop Ruby/Rails because this support is so bad.</span></div>
<br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.800000190734863px"><div>Statements like this can sound like threats. There's a lot of coordinated work that would have to be done by a ton of unrelated open source unpaid contributors. </div>
<div>Ruby/Rails is not a product/service you are paying for, but a community of people building software. </div><div><br></div><div>In a word, suggesting one may stop paying for a service has a lot more effect than suggesting one may leave a community.</div>
<div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 5 July 2014 04:00, James Pike <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:lrug@chilon.net" target="_blank">lrug@chilon.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">I'd like to see the entire Rails community move away from blocking IO<br>
(optionally together with threads) as the IO model and I think Rails is<br>
in a unique position to offer some leadership/motivation/guidance there<br>
to the entire Ruby community on that issue. The context switching<br>
overhead (+ GIL problems) make the IO model seem rather anachronistic<br>
and we lose a lot of good people to node.js and the less-pragmatic<br>
language that is JavaScript purely due to concerns of this nature.<br>
<br>
Instead the use of asynchronous IO + Fibers (so we get the advantages of<br>
ASIO with the readability of blocking IO style) would make Rails seem<br>
more compelling than node.js without needing code to become the tangled<br>
mess of callback hell that many node.js projects become. It's also worth<br>
noting that EcmaScript 7 will have the "async function" feature which<br>
will essentially provide what Ruby Fibers already do. It's sad to see<br>
our community becoming fragmented and outpaced by a language that most<br>
of us will probably agree is inferior to Ruby :(<br>
<br>
Cheers, James<br>
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> Genuinely interested: do you have any specific complaints? What could they<br>
> do to address them?<br>
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> On Thu, Jul 3, 2014 at 11:56 PM, James Ladd <<a href="mailto:ladd.james@gmail.com">ladd.james@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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> About to drop Ruby/Rails because this support is so bad.<br>
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