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Rake task for deploying to Heroku

Deploying to Heroku is pretty easy, but I’ve often found myself needing to do additional tasks after pushing to Heroku’s git repository. For example, if you have to migrate, you have to do that after pushing; and after migrating you ha...

Slides from my Rails Underground 2009 talk

Hello from London!

Am currently enjoying the talks at Rails Underground 2009 in London and had the pleasure to be one of the first speakers at the conference. My talk covered a collection of what our team considers best practices. Best practices that aid in the successful launch of a web application and covered a few...

82,520 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 over and haven’t really hit any obstacles in the transition.

Since some people asked me to let them know how this...

Rolling 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 on Rails applications running as painless and quickly as possible. With this new announcement, we’ve rebuilt the Boxcar image...

RailsBoxcar.com 2.0

In case you missed the tweet from Alex ...

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Our team just designed, developed, and deployed a new site for, Boxcar, our streamlined deployment environment for Ruby on Rails applications.

Boxcar

Feel free to take a tour to learn more about our product plans, which...

Launching Ruby on Rails projects, a checklist

As mentioned in a recent post, I’m hoping to share some lessons that were learned throughout the process of launching a client project. Over the past few years, we’ve been part of several dozen client projects and the big launch date is always an anxiety-filled, yet exciting point for the client and our team....

Capistrano Off the Beaten Path

Introduction If you use Capistrano, most likely you use it to deploy rails applications by running it from the project directory. The plugem management tool piggy-backs on Capistrano to execute some recipes without using the current path because recip...

[RELEASE] Plugems packaging

The Plugems runtime is enough to justify their existence, but it does not stop there. Since we already defined our dependencies in a gem-like fashion, it is only a small step to start using them for packaging as well. All that is needed for this is the...