Skipping Asset Compilation with Capistrano
Capistrano has a handy task that runs rake assets:precompile for you when you are deploying your Rails 3.1 application. This gives you an easy way to get the performance boosts of having only one css file and one javascript file to load per request. The price you pay for that benefit is the amount of...
Skipping Asset Compilation with Capistrano
Capistrano has a handy task that runs rake assets:precompile for you when you are deploying your Rails 3.1 application. This gives you an easy way to get the performance boosts of having only one css file and one javascript file to load per request. The price you pay for that benefit is the amount of...
Deploying New Relic Server Monitoring with Chef
This morning I deployed New Relic's new Server Monitoring feature for the first time (I've used Scout previously). It's cool to see your server vitals right next to all your app vitals, and their interface looks attractive, to boot. Since I deploy everything with Chef, I threw together a quick Chef recipe to automate the...
Improvements to Bundle Watcher
I just released an update to Bundle Watcher this morning that may make it a little easier to get your Ruby gem updates tracked. Now you can specify a URL where your Gemfile.lock resides, rather than having to upload a file. You can also now see a list of bundles that your tracking, once you've...
Improvements to Bundle Watcher
I just released an update to Bundle Watcher this morning that may make it a little easier to get your Ruby gem updates tracked. Now you can specify a URL where your Gemfile.lock resides, rather than having to upload a file. You can also now see a list of bundles that your tracking, once you've...
Faker 1.0 released
Earlier this week I released version 1.0 of the Faker gem. It's been about 4 years since the initial release of the gem, and the API has been fairly stable for the last couple of years, so I figured it was a good time to make the jump to 1.0. :) This release finishes the...
CentOS 5.5 net install secret
Today I needed to spin up a VM with CentOS 5.5. My preferred distro these days is Ubuntu, and I had to learn the CentOS dance to get an unsupported version installed, so it took me a little longer than I would have liked to get it going. Here's the secret: When asked for the...
CentOS 5.5 net install secret
Today I needed to spin up a VM with CentOS 5.5. My preferred distro these days is Ubuntu, and I had to learn the CentOS dance to get an unsupported version installed, so it took me a little longer than I would have liked to get it going. Here's the secret: When asked for the...
BundleWatcher: Watching Your Gems
My weekend project this weekend was BundleWatcher, a tool that does just one thing: watches the gems in your Gemfile for updates. Once you upload your Gemfile.lock file, BundleWatcher will keep track of updates to the gems upon which your project depends, and you can use the atom feed for your bundle to know when...
Chef Tips
One of the best things that came out of using EngineYard Cloud was learning about Chef. Chef has changed my world when it comes to managing servers, and I now wouldn't do any amount of system administration without the kind of automation and scriptability Chef provides. Here are a couple of tips on the reasons...
Chef Tips
One of the best things that came out of using EngineYard Cloud was learning about Chef. Chef has changed my world when it comes to managing servers, and I now wouldn't do any amount of system administration without the kind of automation and scriptability Chef provides. Here are a couple of tips on the reasons...
Jekyll: Pagination, Archives, and Excerpts
I recently converted this blog to jekyll — I figured since I had to move my slicehost slices elsewhere anyway, I might as well ditch wordpress and play with something new. It's been a bit of adventure getting the site rendered by jekyll to match the URL structure I had in place with wordpress, so...
