Mustache is an Erlang port of the Ruby framework of the same name, originally written by Chris Wanstrath, one of the founders of GitHub. A powerful feature of this type of framework is the ability to write a ‘template’ that you could use in a Rails application and then reuse in an Erlang application with [...]
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37 Signals, creators of Rails, embrace Erlang, where it makes sense
You may be familiar with 37 Signals, the guys who brought us Ruby on Rails, Campfire, Basecamp, among other products. Mark makes a wonderful case for using the right tool for the job in this “Nuts & Bolts” post, on how the Campfire internals work better with Erlang. Campfire is a web based messaging/chatroom system [...]
Interview with Reia Creator Tony Arcieri on Erlang, Reia, Python, and Rails
We interrupt the recent holiday related posting haitus with an interview with Tony Arcieri, creator of Reia. Tony agreed to answer some questions about Reia. Tony has a lot more information on Reia in the FAQ, where he covers reasons for some of the design decisions of the language. He can be reached at his [...]
Reia Brings Scripting to Erlang
As Erlang continues to grow in popularity, people are thinking about how to capture the advantages of Erlang’s VM and shared-nothing architecture but present it in a more mainstream acceptable way. Reia is the latest attempt on that front. Why? Tony Arcieri starts with testing – with a goal taking Reia and creating a declarative [...]
“Erlang for the Ruby Guy” – In three parts
Jon Gretar has a three part series which is a simple introduction to Erlang for the Rubyist. He covers basic syntax, tuples, modules and functions and pattern matching, and the basics of recursion.
Ruby and Erlang can play nice together
InfoQ has a good article on Ruby and Erlang interaction. EngineYard, the most visible and successful rails-focused host, is using erlang in Vertebra, their cloud computing platform. Which, as we’ll cover in a separate post, is an incredibly powerful statement for the growing place for Erlang in cloud computing. Erlectricity is a ruby gem that [...]