Martin Rehfeld martinrehfeld

Ruby & erlang -- A bond forged in the fires of idiomatic concurrency

Public description

In the world of social gaming, the classic 2-tier of web application does not cut it anymore. We need new and better solutions.

Follow along the evolution of game servers at Wooga and get an in-depth look into the next-generation backend putting the combined forces of erlang and Ruby to work. Learn how scalability, reliability, concurrency control and beautiful code do not need to be mutually exclusive.

Notes for the reviewers

This allows you to use the following video streaming services outside of the US from your Mac without having to use a proxy or VPN, so no big bandwidth issues:

Netflix
Hulu / HuluPlus
CBS
ABC
MTV
theWB
CW TV
Crackle

## Most important settings

Create a new facebook app (1) and make sure the canvas url (2) in the basic tab matches the host and port configured with Capybara.server_port and Capybara.app_host. Activating sandbox mode (3) in the advanced tab enables you to roll without providing an SSL canvas url. You want to set the display mode (4) of your facebook dialogs to page, which is also the default.

	source 'http://rubygems.org'

	group :development, :test do
	gem 'guard-shell'
	gem 'rb-fsevent'
	gem 'growl'
	end

	DEPS = $(CURDIR)/deps

	DIALYZER_OPTS = -Wunderspecs

	# List dependencies that should be included in a cached dialyzer PLT file.
	# DIALYZER_DEPS = deps/app1/ebin \
	# deps/app2/ebin

	DEPS_PLT = {{name}}.plt

	# Copyright 2012 Erlware, LLC. All Rights Reserved.
	#
	# This file is provided to you under the Apache License,
	# Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file
	# except in compliance with the License. You may obtain
	# a copy of the License at
	#
	# http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
	#
	# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,

	#!/usr/bin/perl

	#
	# UDP Listen ...
	#
	use IO::Socket::INET;
	use strict;

	my ($sock);
	my $data;