Chad Remesch

Entrepreneur and software engineer

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2017

ec2_election - Leader election for EC2 Auto Scaling

Recently I've had a need to pick a leader instance when using AWS EC2 Auto Scaling. To solve this problem I've created ec2_election. Benefits......

Capistrano::Releases - Auto Scaling EC2 with Capistrano

I've released my latest Ruby gem named Capistrano::Releases with the goal of making it easy to use Capistrano with AWS EC2 Auto Scaling. Benefits in...

2016

Cron Helper - Improve your Ruby Cron jobs

I've released my latest Ruby gem named Cron Helper to make life easier for those Ruby & Rails projects that use Cron. It's designed to build on ...

2015

Oskie RPC - Network agnostic RPC

Oskie RPC is a simple RPC library and protocol for Ruby. Main features: Network agnostic: You provide it with input and receive output using whatever transp...

Reactomatic - Reactor pattern for Ruby

Reactomatic is an implementation of the Reactor Pattern for Ruby. It provides an EventMachine inspired interface for working with TCP/IP sockets in an async...

Filter Chain - Ruby gem for data manipulation

Filter Chain is a Ruby gem for processing data through a chain of filters in an object oriented style. It includes a number of filters for simple tasks like...

2014

Easy Lua - Add Lua scripts to ActionScript projects

This past weekend I released a new open source project called Easy Lua. It's a wrapper around the Lua port that is included in Adobe's open source CrossBrid...

Totem - Now with services (daemons)

As mentioned in my previous post, Totem is a new Ruby project generator that I've put together. One major missing feature was the ability to easily create s...

Totem - Ruby Without Rails

Totem is my new Ruby gem for creating Ruby projects without having to depend on Rails. Some of the features it provides are: Interactive console Logging St...

2013

Tribe - Futures and Timers

I've added a few missing features to Tribe- Timers and Futures. Timers provide a way to tell an actor to do something in the future. Tribe supports both one...

Workers - New Features

Recently I added a number of features to my Workers gem: The Task and TaskGroup classes make it even easier to parallelize expensive computations (and blocki...

Networking for Tribe

Recently I put together two new Ruby gems called Tribe EM and Tribe EM AMF Socket. Both gems build on top of my Tribe gem. Tribe EM bridges the gap between ...

Workers and Tribe - Ruby threading simplified

Recently I've created two new Ruby gems known as Workers and Tribe. The Workers gem turns low-level operating system threads into simple to use event-driven ...

2012

Observation - Observer pattern for Ruby

Today I hacked together Observation, a simple implementation of the Observer pattern. Inspiration for the API comes from Adobe Actionscript's event sys...

AMF Socket - Easy Actionscript Networking

Recently, I created AMF Socket. AMF Socket is a bi-directional remote procedure call (RPC) system for Adobe Actionscript programs. This library aims to make ...

Spinal Tap - admin console for Ruby processes

Today I released a very early/alpha version of Spinal Tap. I deal with a lot of long running Ruby processes (crons, daemons, etc) and I occassionally n...

Torquebox Investigation

My good friend Scott McCarty mentioned that I should checkout the Torquebox project and so I spent my morning with it. Below is a summary of my experience. ...

Fiona: Rails 3 configuration data engine

A few months back, my friend Mike and I build Fiona. We're calling it a "configuration data engine" since we use it store various kinds of template dat...

Setup Notes: Ruby Debug with MRI 1.9.3-p125

See my setup notes on Github.

Setup Notes: rails3 + rspec2 + spork + autotest

See my setup notes on Github. The result is really fast and automated tests for your Rails 3 project.