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<feed xml:lang="en-us" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><title>Simon Willison's Weblog: gems</title><link href="http://simonwillison.net/" rel="alternate"/><link href="http://simonwillison.net/tags/gems.atom" rel="self"/><id>http://simonwillison.net/</id><updated>2008-12-14T16:57:42+00:00</updated><author><name>Simon Willison</name></author><entry><title>On packaging</title><link href="https://simonwillison.net/2008/Dec/14/packaging/#atom-tag" rel="alternate"/><published>2008-12-14T16:57:42+00:00</published><updated>2008-12-14T16:57:42+00:00</updated><id>https://simonwillison.net/2008/Dec/14/packaging/#atom-tag</id><summary type="html">
    
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.b-list.org/weblog/2008/dec/14/packaging/"&gt;On packaging&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
James Bennett discusses the problems with setuptools (and ruby gems), and recommends Ian Bicking’s pip as a setuptools replacement.


    &lt;p&gt;Tags: &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/gems"&gt;gems&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/ian-bicking"&gt;ian-bicking&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/james-bennett"&gt;james-bennett&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/pip"&gt;pip&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/python"&gt;python&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/ruby"&gt;ruby&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/setuptools"&gt;setuptools&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;



</summary><category term="gems"/><category term="ian-bicking"/><category term="james-bennett"/><category term="pip"/><category term="python"/><category term="ruby"/><category term="setuptools"/></entry><entry><title>stompserver</title><link href="https://simonwillison.net/2007/Dec/14/stompservers/#atom-tag" rel="alternate"/><published>2007-12-14T16:40:48+00:00</published><updated>2007-12-14T16:40:48+00:00</updated><id>https://simonwillison.net/2007/Dec/14/stompservers/#atom-tag</id><summary type="html">
    
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://stompserver.rubyforge.org/"&gt;stompserver&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
I think this is the lightweight message queue I’ve been looking for: written in Ruby and EventMachine, easy to set up (thanks to gems), interoperates perfectly with stomp.py.


    &lt;p&gt;Tags: &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/eventmachine"&gt;eventmachine&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/gems"&gt;gems&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/lightweight"&gt;lightweight&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/message-queues"&gt;message-queues&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/messaging"&gt;messaging&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/python"&gt;python&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/ruby"&gt;ruby&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/stomp"&gt;stomp&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;



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