Category Archives: rails

RailsConf08: 23 Hacks

Nathaniel Talbott (from Terralien) gave a great talk on a number of interesting hacks in ruby. There was one in particular that I want to focus on here: gitjour. Gitjour is a fun and novel app that will discover git repositories on a local network via Bonjour. It’s hardly going to change your life, but [...]
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RailsConf08: Passenger or mod_rails RIP

There was no lack of hubris on the stage today as the guys from Phusion talked about their new Apache extension Passenger. If Passenger lives up to its claims it seems that it could quickly become the de-facto standard for deploying Rails (and more) applications. The 19 22-year-old duo was obviously ecstatic about sharing about what [...]
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RailsConf08: Engine Yard on Rails Deployment Issues

Yesterday I sat in on a session on rails deployment, headed up by the guys from Engine Yard. The idea was to discuss deployment problems but it turned into general deployment tips. If anyone knows about deploying rails it is these guys and they have some fantastic ideas. I took away some interesting things that [...]
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