Thoughts on deploying ruby apps without capistrano

Sunday, October 4th, 2009

I recently left the ruby deployment team for  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 ...

Bash Primer for Beginners

Sunday, April 12th, 2009

If you are working with OSX or *nix flavored systems and you are not already automating mundane tasks with bash or some other scripting language than you must enjoy repetition.  I migrated over to OS X a few years ago and although I had been integrating Linux and Apple Operating ...