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Ara is easily among the top 30 Ruby programmers in the world and he routinely
manipulates Terabytes worth of image data . His robust queuing software for
clusters is worth a talk by itself, but his experience wielding a dynamic
programming language for scientific purposes is second to none.
Bil Kleb <Bil.Kleb(at)nasa.gov>
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Ara's been a mainstay of the Ruby community for just about as long as I can
remember.
Dave Thomas <dave(at)pragprog.com>
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Ara has been a pillar of the Ruby community since long before Rails was even
a twinkle in my eye. I remember reading posting after posting on the Ruby
mailing list when I was just picking up the language from Ara that would
always leave me wiser. He has lots to teach about this wonderful language.
David Heinemeier Hansson <david(at)loudthinking.com>
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RQ works like a toilet in a Russian train. Never clogs.
An anonymous credit quant
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Ara is one of the most competent and experienced coders I
know. His primary sword is ruby, and he runs circles around
most coders I know with it. He has written bi-temporal
database emulation over postgresql, scripts for NASA and
NOAA, and his knowledge of Ruby and Postgresql is beyond
competent. ... I've worked with Ara on 3 major projects
now, and a bunch of little coding help in between.
Mark N. Fischer, CEO, W3 ||| Sustainable
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Hi,
I'm using Arrayfields since two weeks ago, and it's already one of my
preferred Ruby libraries. Now that I'm using it a lot, I can't even imagine
doing what I do (databases, pdf reporting) without it.
The importance of referencing the columns by their 'names' instead of their
index is so great, so great... and everything works so well.
Thank you so much Ara.
Cheers, Joao
Joao Pedrosa <joaopedrosa(at)yahoo.com>
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Just wanted to share with everyone how easy rq and the cf cluster is making my
work life today! Thanks again for all the thought and effort that went into
that software, Ara!!
Kim Baugh <Kim.Baugh(at)noaa.gov>
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Popen4 rocks. Thanks for writing it and making it available!
Stefanie Tellex <stefie10(at)alum.mit.edu>
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I used to manage my own cluster at my previous workplace. Now I only have user
privileges, and it is sometimes frustrating.
In any case, rq seems like a great piece of software, just what I needed. I
also love the fact that it is written in ruby, my favourite script language.
(...)
I have already run 2000+ jobs through rq, not a hitch!
Mikael Borg <mikael.borg(at)utoronto.ca>
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... many thanks for Ruby queue - it certainly is far easier to set up than any
of the other queuing software I've looked at!
Alasdair Ferro <alasdair(at)spiratech.com>
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In order to be able to synchronize with Java an a Debian based system,
posixlock has been packaged and is now part of Debian [1]. Thanks a lot for
the package, it made one Ruby developer happy.
Tomas Pospisek <tpo(at)sourcepole.ch>
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I have succesfully installed rq on an hp cluster under linux debian and
enjoyed running a lot of work I had pending. Thank you very much for a so nice
piece of software!!
JL Oliver <oliver(at)ugr.es>
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Your main.rb gem is just awesome! Gets rid of most of the
drudgery of building a ruby app, simply and declaratively.
Jeff Barczewski
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rq is just great. I am running it on a single 8 CPU box - and
it runs like clock work... Much impressed with this nifty
tool. Another person helping making science possible!
Pjotr Prins
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You know, I really have to tell you - lockfile kicks some serious ass.
Jeremy Hinegardner