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MacRuby releases ControlTower

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Re: MacRuby releases ControlTower

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Post by troyk »

This is interesting, but Apply is going to need to show the server space a little love before people will start to seriously consider OS-X as a server target -- but they should, because they have a nice cut of developer mind share and an advantage to leverage (not that they should, but they could) with iphone/ipad web services

Re: MacRuby releases ControlTower

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Post by cmelbye »

troyk wrote: post #2

This is interesting, but Apply is going to need to show the server space a little love before people will start to seriously consider OS-X as a server target -- but they should, because they have a nice cut of developer mind share and an advantage to leverage (not that they should, but they could) with iphone/ipad web services

Yeah, seriously. I can't even imagine how I would use this in production. Super expensive Xcode + built in apache that probably can't proxy to a backend server all that easily? It's just too inflexible to be seriously considered.

Re: MacRuby releases ControlTower

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Post by joshus »

cmelbye wrote: post #4
troyk wrote: post #2

This is interesting, but Apply is going to need to show the server space a little love before people will start to seriously consider OS-X as a server target -- but they should, because they have a nice cut of developer mind share and an advantage to leverage (not that they should, but they could) with iphone/ipad web services

Yeah, seriously. I can't even imagine how I would use this in production. Super expensive Xcode + built in apache that probably can't proxy to a backend server all that easily? It's just too inflexible to be seriously considered.

Here is one interesting bit from the nut-shell: "We are also interested in other non-traditional ways an embeddable Ruby web app server might be useful for native app development."

Re: MacRuby releases ControlTower

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Post by TrevorFancher »

Currently, this seems more interesting to me as a GCD[1] technology demo. Looking at #initialize and #open in the code[2] shows how easy GCD can be to use. Create a queue and add tasks (in this case as Ruby "do" blocks).

I'm looking forward to someone posting some benchmarks comparing ControlTower's connections per second and speed to other web servers.

[1] http://developer.apple.com/technologies/mac/snowleopard/gcd....

[2] http://svn.macosforge.org/repository/ruby/ControlTower/trunk...

Re: MacRuby releases ControlTower

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Post by loewenskind »

patrickaljord wrote: post #8

Does this only run on a Mac? If yes, who would want to use a Mac as a production web server?

Why not? It's easy to administer, has administrative capabilities similar to Linux and it's pretty stable. I'd rather have production Mac servers than Windows servers personally.

Re: MacRuby releases ControlTower

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Post by Manfred »

troyk wrote: post #2

This is interesting, but Apply is going to need to show the server space a little love before people will start to seriously consider OS-X as a server target -- but they should, because they have a nice cut of developer mind share and an advantage to leverage (not that they should, but they could) with iphone/ipad web services

I think Control Tower is primarily meant to run local web services in situations where you don't want to depend on anything except Mac OS X and MacRuby.

As you can see it has no external dependencies and is the only web server –apart from WEBrick– which runs on MacRuby without compiling any additional code.

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