Ruby Client-Server Interaction Delays

I have an XML-RPC client and server on Ruby implemented using standard libraries. If client has no proper DNS record I see 10 second delay in my case for setting up the connection...

IE Usage Stats on OpenVZ Web Panel Project

Yesterday I checked the stats collected by Google Analitics and found the interesting fact…

Deploying Rails Apps on Various Linuxes

During preparation of automatic installer for OpenVZ Web Panel product I tried to solve the problem of deploying Rails app on various Linux-like systems.

DokuXP Skin

I decided to repost info about DokuXP skin from old blog. I made this skin very long ago but some people still like it.

Killing WEBrick Daemon

Recently I played with WEBrick server and found the lack of information on how to kill it if it was started as a daemon.