Making ActiveResource 34x faster: QActiveResource

http://blog.directededge.com/2010/05/06/making-activeresource-34x-faster-qactiveresource/

by wheels • 16 years ago

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stretchwithme• 16 years ago

The right tool for the right job.

Legion• 16 years ago

And sometimes, you have to make that tool yourself.

sad• 16 years ago

What an awesome marriage of Qt and Ruby. Two of my favorite languages and toolkits used appropriately to solve a real problem.

Well done! And thank you for open sourcing this.

Well done!

madhancr• 16 years ago

whats Qt ? If I google I get a GUI platform from Nokia. I guess Qt being referred here is different ?

wheels2• 16 years ago

Qt's a pretty general toolkit for C++ applications – a pretty huge chunk of it has nothing to do with GUI programming (and what, for instance, the KDE desktop and associated tools are built on):

http://doc.qt.nokia.com/4.6/classes.html

It was fairly recent that Nokia bought them; before that Trolltech was an independant company.

wheels2• 16 years ago

As a side note, I managed to drop it into an existing ActiveResource-using app with this code:

  module HashAccessor
    def method_missing(method)
      value = self[method] || self[method.to_s]
      raise NoMethodError.new unless value
      value
    end
  end

  Hash.send :include, HashAccessor

  module ActiveResource
    class Base
      def self.find(from=nil, params={})
        resource = from == :all ? self.collection_name : self.element_name
        values = QAR::Resource.new(self.site.to_s, resource).find(from, params)
      end
    end
  end

djcapelis• 16 years ago

Qt is an excellent platform for building things, this is another demonstration of that.

More people should look at it. Even the datastructures are pretty much a joy to use.

fretlessjazz• 16 years ago

As somebody who has dealt with ActiveResource in a production environment, thank-you!

My company noticed an absolutely whopping performance boost when we dropped XML in favor of JSON for a transport format, fwiw. Ruby has quite possibly the slowest XML parsing libraries on the block (even when you wrap libxml), and we avoid parsing XML at all costs now.

Making ActiveResource 34x faster: QActiveResource

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