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Launching Ruby on Rails projects, a checklist
Since publishing this article, I have given a talk on this topic at Rails Underground 2009. I invite you to checkout the slides. As mentioned in a recent post, I’m hoping to share some lessons that...
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RailsBoxcar.com 2.0
In case you missed the tweet from Alex ...Our team just designed, developed, and deployed a new site for, Boxcar, our streamlined deployment environment for Ruby on Rails applications.Feel free to take...
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Rails 3 and Merb
So… Rails and Merb are going to be merged into Rails 3. (link)Has hell frozen over?(it has in Portland the last week)I’m curious about how the revised core team will incorporate the library-agnostic...
View ArticleRails and Business in the 2009 World
The past few months have been difficult for many companies and as a result, some have had layoffs and now there are developers out there looking for new opportunities. I’ve received a few emails from...
View ArticleSubdomain accounts with Ruby on Rails explained
DHH recently posted, How to do Basecamp-style subdomains in Rails on SvN and it just happens that I was implementing some similar stuff this last week for a project we’re developing internally.In our...
View ArticleGet to know a gem: Ghost
In my last post, Subdomain accounts with Ruby on Rails explaind, I mentioned that you’d need to modify your /etc/hosts file to use custom subdomains for development/testing. Apparently, there is a much...
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Take the Ruby on Rails Hosting in 2009 Survey
Calling all Ruby on Rails developers and system administrators.The team at Planet Argon is hoping to collect some information about how everyone is currently managing the deployment and hosting of...
View ArticleQuestion: Plugins or Gems? (or both?)
Our development team likes to extract reusable pieces of code for our projects and have historically used plugins. However, we are finding more and more people releasing these sorts of...
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Rails Hosting Survey (continued)
Thanks to everyone has taken the survey and mentioned it on twitter. We just passed 400 people. We have a ways to go before we hit our goal of at least 1500 people surveyed. (if we can get even more...
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Rails Hosting Survey - 5 days left...
Wow. Thanks to all of you who have helped get the word out about the Ruby on Rails Hosting 2009 Survey. We just passed 900 people and we have about five more days left to hit the 1500 milestone that I...
View ArticleRolling out new updates for Rails Boxcar
Alex, Director of Deployment Services, has been hard at work helping us get our new suite of hosting plans out for Rails Boxcar, a deployment environment that we’ve designed to help you get your Ruby...
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Switch to Passenger (mod_rails) in development on OSX in less than 7 minutes...
We recently switched our default builds of Rails Boxcar to leverage the benefits of using Passenger (mod_rails) for deployment of your Ruby on Rails applications and it’s been working out great for our...
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Show me your and I'll show you mine (terminal prompts with git branches)
I asked on twitter but only got a small handful of responses. So, I’m taking it here.Show me yours and I’ll show you mine. Your terminal prompt that you’re using. Inspire me with new ideas for my...
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The Rails Hosting Survey 2009 Survey results are in!
We recently announced a survey that touched on topics related to the deployment and hosting of Ruby on Rails applications. We promised to share the results with the community and have made this...
View ArticleHTTParty goes foreign
Just a quick post to get share something I was tinkering with this evening.I came across this post by Gerald Bauer, which shows you how to use the Google Translation API with Ruby via Net::HTTP. I...
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20 articles on Cucumber and a free beverage recipe!
Cucumber has been getting quite a bit of attention in the community and with the new RSpec Book on nearing publication, I predict that by this time next year, it’ll become a household word like...
View Article82,520 minutes on Phusion Passenger
It’s been over 83,520 minutes since I made the switch from using mongrel as my development environment web server to Phusion Passenger. I’ve been extremely impressed with it. Our team has all switched...
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Hello, HeyBrainstormr.com
If you follow me on twitter, you might have heard that we launched a little project that we’ve been cooking up at Planet Argon. (news post)HeyBrainstormr is a lightweight web application that we...
View ArticleHowdy Rip!
Chris Wanstrath (@defunkt) just posted the following on twitter.“Hello Rip – http://hellorip.com/“The Rip project describes itself as, “an attempt to create a next generation packaging system for...
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Speaking at Rails Underground 2009
It’s time to find my passport again…I’ve been invited to speak at Rails Underground, which is being held in London, UK from July 24-25th.My talk, which is tentatively titled, “Launching Ruby on Rails...
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