Monthly Archives: February 2008

HBase Users’ Group at Powerset March 4th

By Bryan Duxbury | Published: February 27, 2008

Powerset is generously hosting another HBase Users’ Group meeting on March 4th at their offices. You can see the details here. We’re hoping that this one will be more discussion oriented, rather than just be presentations like the one we had here at Rapleaf a few months ago. Sign up quick!

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Making sure Ruby Daemons die

By ckline | Published: February 15, 2008

We use the Daemons Ruby Gem for a variety of applications. It has served us well, but we found ourselves wrapping the “stop” command with a shell script that makes sure the process actually dies. This behavior is necessary for our deploy scripts which restart daemons. Thanks to the magic of Ruby, we were able [...]

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