Archive for the ‘System Management’ Category

Thoughts on deploying ruby apps without capistrano

Sunday, October 4th, 2009

I recently left the ruby deployment team forĀ  large managed rails-based hosting provider. We used capistrano for our deployment needs. Once we had successfully configured an application and its dependencies we would hand over a very robust capistrano recipe to the end user and it turns out that almost all ...

What nginx + passenger means to the rails framework

Wednesday, April 29th, 2009

I work for <insert large managed hosting provider specializing in rails deployment here> and I had the good fortune of getting to play with nginx + passenger before its recent release. This gave me some time to think about how completely it integrates into my deployment stack many weeks before ...

Show hidden files in finder in OS X

Saturday, April 11th, 2009

Every once-in-awhile I'll want to be able to view hidden files in the finder. You can google this problem and you'll find a lot of people with the same answer. Pop up your terminal and enterĀ  "defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles True". The issue is that every time I need this ...