Ruby on Rails – Internet of Things https://blogs.mathworks.com/iot Hans Scharler is an Internet of Things pioneer. He writes about IoT and ThingSpeak IoT platform features. Fri, 09 May 2014 20:48:46 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.1.1 ThingSpeak Selects Phusion Passenger Enterprise to Power its Internet of Things API https://blogs.mathworks.com/iot/2014/05/09/thingspeak-selects-phusion-passenger-enterprise-to-power-its-internet-of-things-api/?s_tid=feedtopost https://blogs.mathworks.com/iot/2014/05/09/thingspeak-selects-phusion-passenger-enterprise-to-power-its-internet-of-things-api/#respond Fri, 09 May 2014 20:47:52 +0000 https://blogs.mathworks.com/iot/?p=1236

The servers behind ThingSpeak have been slammed with data from all kinds of IoT devices and applications. We recently upgraded the entire backend of ThingSpeak and increased capacity to support our... read more >>

]]> The servers behind ThingSpeak have been slammed with data from all kinds of IoT devices and applications. We recently upgraded the entire backend of ThingSpeak and increased capacity to support our growth. One of the key decisions in our redesign was to select Phusion Passenger Enterprise to power the ThingSpeak “Internet of Things” API. Phusion Passenger’s “hybrid evented, multi-threaded and multi-process design” is perfect for the Internet of Things pattern for applications.

ThingSpeak Phusion Passenger IoT Application

About Phusion Passenger

Phusion Passenger is a web server and application server for Ruby, Python, Node.js and Meteor web apps. It makes web app deployments a lot simpler and less complex, by managing your apps’ processes and resources for you.

What makes it so fast and reliable is its C++ core, its zero-copy architecture, its watchdog system and its hybrid evented, multi-threaded and multi-process design.

]]> https://blogs.mathworks.com/iot/2014/05/09/thingspeak-selects-phusion-passenger-enterprise-to-power-its-internet-of-things-api/feed/ 0 ThingSpeak visits the Pittsburgh Ruby Users Group https://blogs.mathworks.com/iot/2011/11/29/thingspeak-visits-the-pittsburgh-ruby-users-group/?s_tid=feedtopost https://blogs.mathworks.com/iot/2011/11/29/thingspeak-visits-the-pittsburgh-ruby-users-group/#respond Tue, 29 Nov 2011 20:48:39 +0000 https://blogs.mathworks.com/iot/?p=863 Hans Scharler is stopping by the monthly meeting of the Pittsburgh Ruby Users Group. The topic on the agenda is ThingSpeak, an open source Ruby on Rails application for the Internet of Things. The... read more >>

]]> Hans Scharler is stopping by the monthly meeting of the Pittsburgh Ruby Users Group. The topic on the agenda is ThingSpeak, an open source Ruby on Rails application for the Internet of Things. The meeting is scheduled for December 1, 2011 and starts at 7:30pm.

Topics on the agenda:

  • Switch over to Ruby on Rails 3.1
  • ThingSpeak v2.0
  • Active ThingSpeak Projects
  • Adding modularity and tests to the GitHub repository
  • …btw, we’re hiring!

Background on ThingSpeak:

ThingSpeak is an open source web application and API to manage devices, to create device interactions, and to store data. Users can use the hosted version of ThingSpeak or setup instances on their own servers by getting the source code from GitHub. The technology behind ThingSpeak is Ruby 1.9.2, Rails 3.0, EventMachine, Phusion Passenger, Nginx, and Memcached to form a highly scalable infrastructure for the emerging Internet of Things and its data model requirements.

You use ThingSpeak to Send and Receive “data” via simple HTTP requests, much like going to a web page and filling out a form. Data can be from
anything — Blood Sugar Levels measured by a glucose meter, Server Usage and Uptime reported by servers, or Location Info from a mobile phone. Once the data is in ThingSpeak, you can build applications that retrieve the data, use the data for process decision-making, and reporting.

[via Pittsburgh Ruby Users Group]

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