Distributed Programming With Ruby

The first book on building advanced distributed applications with Ruby - by one of the world's top Ruby distributed programming experts--Thoroughly explains the value of distributed Ruby programming, and provides concrete examples that demystify the abstract concepts developers need to master.-Presents deep coverage of DRb, Rinda, Vertebra, and Nanite-Identifies distributed programming pitfalls, and shows how to overcome them-By RubyConf speaker and Mack Framework creator Mark Bates. Distributed programming techniques make applications easier to scale, develop, and deploy, especially in emerging cloud computing environments. Now, one of the Ruby community's leading experts has written the definitive guide to distributed programming with Ruby. Mark Bates starts with the simplest distributed application, then walks through an increasingly complex series of concrete applications, showing readers exactly how distributed programming works, and introducing the most powerful Ruby tools for utilizing it. Bates presents the industry's most thorough and useful coverage of DRb and Rinda, the two standard Ruby libraries for distributed programming. Next, he turns to third party tools, frameworks, and libraries designed to simplify distributed programming with Ruby, illuminating Vertebra, Nanite, and other powerful tools - including Bates' own Distribunaut. Along the way, he identifies the unique pitfalls and problems associated with distributed programming, and offers specific solutions for overcoming them. Designed as both a hands-on tutorial and practical reference, this isn't just the only book on Ruby distributed programming: it's a book developers can rely on for any Ruby distributed programming challenge, no matter how complex.

Mark Bates, Director of Technology for second Rotation, is responsible for identitying, developing, and leading the company's technology roadmap, powering such applications as Gazelle.com. He was the Lead Developer of Mack, the Ruby-distributed web application framework. Mack later spawned the standalone library, Distribunaut (covered in this book). A leader in the Rubby distributed programming community, he has presented at RubyCont and regularly teaches classes on Ruby and Ruby on Rails. Formerly Director of Archilecture for Helium.com, he has been developing web applications since 1996.

Foreword	p. ix
Preface	p. xi
Standard Library	p. 1
Distributed Ruby (DRb)	p. 3
Hello World	p. 4
Proprietary Ruby Objects	p. 10
Security	p. 17
Access Control Lists (ACLs)	p. 18
DRb over SSL	p. 21
ID Conversion	p. 28
Built-in ID Converters	p. 29
Building Your Own ID Converter	p. 33
Using Multiple ID Converters	p. 34
Conclusion	p. 35
Endnotes	p. 36
Rinda	p. 37
Hello World" the Rinda Way	p. 38
Understanding Tuples and TupleSpaces	p. 44
Writing a Tuple to a TupleSpace	p. 44
Reading a Tuple from a TupleSpace	p. 45
Taking a Tuple from a TupIeSpace	p. 48
Reading All Tuples in a TupleSpace	p. 52
Callbacks and Observers	p. 53
Understanding Callbacks	p. 54
Implementing Callbacks	p. 55
Security with Rinda	p. 59
Access Control Lists (ACLs)	p. 59
Using Rinda over SSL	p. 61
Selecting a RingServer	p. 63
Renewing Rinda Services	p. 70
Using a Numeric to Renew a Service	p. 71
Using nil to Renew a Service	p. 72
Using the SimpleRenewer Class	p. 72
Custom Renewers	p. 73
Conclusion	p. 75
Endnotes	p. 76
Third-Party Frameworks and Libraries	p. 77
RingyDingy	p. 79
Installation	p. 79
Getting Started with RingyDingy	p. 80
"Hello World" the RingyDingy Way	p. 81
Building a Distributed Logger with RingyDingy	p. 82
Letting RingyDingy Shine	p. 84
Conclusion	p. 86
Starfish	p. 87
Installation	p. 87
Getting Started with Starfish	p. 88
"Hello World" the Starfish Way	p. 90
Using the Starfish Binary	p. 90
Saying Goodbye to the Starfish Binary	p. 93
Building a Distributed Logger with Starfish	p. 96
Letting Starfish Shine	p. 99
MapReduce and Starfish	p. 103
Using Starfish to MapReduce ActiveRecord	p. 104
Using Starfish to MapReduce a File	p. 110
Conclusion	p. 112
Endnotes	p. 113
Distribunaut	p. 115
Installation	p. 116
Blastoff: Hello, World!	p. 117
Building a Distributed Logger with Distribunaut	p. 120
Avoiding Confusion of Services	p. 123
Borrowing a Service with Distribunaut	p. 126
Conclusion	p. 128
Endnotes	p. 129
Politics	p. 131
Installation	p. 133
"Working with Politics	p. 135
Conclusion	p. 141
Endnotes	p. 142
Distributed Message Queues	p. 143
Starling	p. 145
What is a Distributed Message Queue?	p. 145
Installation	p. 147
Getting Started with Starling	p. 148
"Hello World" the Starling Way	p. 155
Building a Distributed Logger with Starling	p. 157
Persisted Queues	p. 158
Getting Starling Stats	p. 158
Conclusion	p. 162
Endnotes	p. 162
AMQP/RabbitMQ	p. 163
What is AMQP?	p. 163
Installation	p. 165
"Hello World" the AMQP Way	p. 167
Building a Distributed Logger with AMQP	p. 178
Persisted AMQP Queues	p. 180
Subscribing to a Message Queue	p. 184
Topic Queues	p. 187
Fanout Queues	p. 193
Conclusion	p. 196
Endnotes	p. 197
Distributed Programming with Ruby on Rails	p. 199
BackgrounDRb	p. 201
Installation	p. 202
Offloading Slow Tasks with BackgrounDRb	p. 203
Configuring BackgrounDRb	p. 211
Persisting BackgrounDRb Tasks	p. 213
Caching Results with Memcached	p. 217
Conclusion	p. 220
Endnotes	p. 221
Delayed Job	p. 223
Installation	p. 223
Sending It Later with Delayed Job	p. 225
Custom Workers and Delayed Job	p. 230
Who's on First, and When Does He Steal Second?	p. 235
Configuring Delayed Job	p. 237
Conclusion	p. 240
Endnotes	p. 241
Index	p. 243
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