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...
I’m working on my presentation for Rails Underground and was hoping to solicit a few tips from other people in the industry.
Have you launched a Ruby on Rails application recently? Are there some things that you wish you had known beforehand?
Mind sharing? You can email me with your story at robby+launchstory@planetargon.com....
On one of our larger client projects (approx. 160 models and growing…) we have a specific model that we refer to quite a bit throughout our code. This model contains less than 10 records, but each of them sits on top of an insanely large and complex set of data. Each record refers to a...
Earlier today, a friend working on a project asked me how we approached routes on our website. If you take a quick peak at our website, you’ll see that we have URLs like so:
I couldn’t remember where I came across this before and wasn’t quickly finding it in the Ruby...
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 projects, a checklist”,...
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 Ruby.”
One of the cool features is that it supports multiple environments. For example, you can have different Rip environments (with different gem versioning) that are...
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...
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 information available at http://rails-hosting.com. You can download the results in CSV, PDF, and view them in...
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...
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...
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 set for myself.
If you can spare five minutes to help us reach this...
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 than that… great!)
The survey is taking most people less than 5 minutes to complete, so...
