In which I share how to use EventMachine along side Passenger.
August 3, 2010: The Most Efficient Cargo Cult Money Can Buy
Book Status Spent yesterday’s book time rearranging the Shoulda chapter so as to be more focused on the general ideas than the specific Shoulda interpretation. Today’s job is making sure it all still flows. Links So I have something like a half-dozen half-finished blog posts. Until the day some of those become fully finished, here’s...
July 1, 2010: Screencasts and Road Maps
A lot fewer links today. Yesterday, by the way, the most clicked on link was the “Don’t do this” like to the method_missing nil post. Book Status Handed another draft of the Rcov and Style/Test Quality chapters in. Expecting that to be the next beta next week, but we’ll see. Links Kent Beck has a...
June 21, 2010: Double Double Splat Splat
Link post today. Turns out I built up more links than I thought. Book Status Somehow I wound up writing and editing the Rcov chapter, which, among other things, is the first time I’ve had to wrestle with RSpec 2 vs. RSpec 1 behavior, when writing about how RSpec and Rcov get along. Now I...
June 11, 2010: Get Ready for Whyday
Looks like I did get a few links gathered yesterday. I’m also working on a post about PeepOpen, TextMate, and RubyMine, I had an interesting day with all of them yesterday. I also remember working on a book-like thing once upon a time, and the whole point of doing this daily blog was to give...
Double Shot #550
At the end of the day, you have to ship code. Or sleep.
MySQL vs. PostgreSQL comparison – Reasonably fair, though it misses the fact that GUI tools for MySQL are generally better.
Software patents should be abolished – Amen.
script/nginx – Instructions for getting nginx + passenger running in your dev environment.
RubyMine 2.0 Beta Overview – Some...
Double Shot #498
Early morning with small child and thunderstorms.
Passenger/Nginx much better than Mongrel (at least for StatSheet) – Not clear how much of this is stack and how much is application style, but it’s an interesting data point.
The Great Ruby IDE Smackdown of ‘09 – Chad Woolley puts a few through their pages, and likes RubyMine.
Critical JavaScript...
Phusion Announces Passenger for Nginx
In the relatively short time since its release, Phusion Passenger has become part of the preferred deployment strategy for many Rails applications. But because it’s targeted at Apache, some sites have been unable to use Passenger. Apache...
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...
Switch to Passenger (mod_rails) in development on OSX in less than 7 minutes or your money back!
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 customers. Several of our customers and colleagues mentioned that they also began using Passenger in development, which was intriguing.
But… Mongrel has...
