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Gist Improvements

Another day, more updates! We just rolled out some subtle changes to Gist

Open Sourcing Rails Development Directory Code

Several months ago, Engine Yard created the Rails Development Directory. We created this directory because we didn’t see a web-based resource that listed professional web development firms with Rails experience that had the oomph of customer endorsements. There was “Working with Rails”, which was more focused on individual developers, and then for true freelancers there was oDesk, but nothing for this part of the market.

A Chef recipe for ProFTPD

I needed to deploy an anonymous FTP server, and of course I wanted to do it using Chef, so I went looking for a Chef recipe to install ProFTPD. Sadly, the lazyweb failed me. So, I did some actual work so the lazyweb won’t fail you. :)

Here is the commit that adds a ProFTPD Chef recipe to my fork of the ey-cloud-recipes repo. Enjoy!

Speedy Version Sorting

Last week I offered fame and fortune to anyone who could speed up our version_sorter. It’s used to sort a repo’s tags:

This morning I ran the numbers and the winner is…

Leveraging the Net

Second up in my series of posts about leveraging communities is the topic of the Internet. I don't want to talk about mailing lists or sites like github yet, I'll cover those when I talk about User Groups and Free Software. I do want to touch on google, blogs, and aggregators.There's a lot of information out there, but how you use it and how deeply you interact with it determine how much it

A Note on Today's Outage

We had an outage this morning from 06:32 to 07:42 PDT. One of the file servers experienced an unusually high load that caused the heartbeat monitor on that file server pair to behave abnormally and confuse the dynamic hostname that points to the active file server in the pair. This in turn caused the frontends to start timing out and resulted in their removal from the load balancer. Here is what we intend to do to prevent this from happening in the future:

Rails in the Wild: 5 Client-Side Performance Observations

We’re putting together the presentation materials for our five-city “Rails Performance in the Cloud” Roadshow at the end of the month (Boston, Austin, Seattle, LA and Chicago).

How to Write Your Sales Page

It's Time to Redesign The Sales Page! Part 2 (Part 1)

So, last time on "It's Time to Redesign The Sales Page!" we talked about why I decided the Freckle Time Tracking sales page had to be totally redone.

Namely:

How to Write Your Sales Page

It’s Time to Redesign The Sales Page! Part 2 (Part 1)

So, last time on “It’s Time to Redesign The Sales Page!” we talked about why I decided the Freckle Time Tracking sales page had to be totally redone.

Namely:

Leveraging Books

As I talk about leveraging community to be more effective at what you do, let's start out with books. I think this is a good theme to develop because it really shows how the three levels of passive, engaged, and committed involvement provide successively more benefit. Books are also an easy gateway into improving yourself because people are used to reading as a learning method — we did it in

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Double Shot #528

Looks like it’s the quiet part of the week.

VPS Setup nginx passenger - Formatted page and added ./configure line.

VPS Setup nginx passenger

This tutorial was preformed using Ubuntu 8.04 LTS

$ ssh root@12.12.12.12 (your IP address)

Building Essentials

$ apt-get -y install build-essential libssl-dev libreadline5-dev zlib1g-dev vim wget curl
$ apt-get -y install mysql-server libmysqlclient15-dev mysql-client

fr:kanis - créée

My name is Ivan Kanis I am a noob at ruby.

Compiling Ruby: From Text to Bytecode

The business of executing Ruby code is booming; with so many Ruby environments in development, there are just as many different ways of actually running code. We’ve been hard at work in the world of Rubinius, and over the last few months we’ve been focused on a new way of executing Ruby code by converting it to machine code at run-time—a Just-In-Time compiler.

In this post, I’ll walk you through how Ruby code begins as text and is converted into bytecode. In a follow up post, I’ll go from bytecode to the machine code itself.

RubyStack

A preconfigured, ready to run installer for Apache, MySQL, Rails and a number of extensions such as Mongrel and ImageMagick. It runs on Windows, OS X and most Linux versions. The installation is self-contained and will not interfere with your existing installations. It can be downloaded from the BitNami RubyStack site . Since it is really easy to use, it is ideal for quickly setting up testing and development environments.

Installing Ruby on Rails on Windows

Pieces You Need

* Ruby
* RubyGems
* Rails (Gem)
* A Database Engine

Install Ruby and RubyGems

Get the latest One-Click Ruby Installer, current version 1.8.6-26. Run this, and select all the defaults. This will install Ruby under C:\ruby, and install RubyGems for you. The README at the end of the installation will show you all the versions of each piece that it installed. You need to update gems after installation:

Software appliances

Manual installation of Ruby on Rails web framework can be painful and time consuming, especially for users lacking technical proficiency.

Some users may find that using a pre-integrated software appliance is an easier way to get up and running with Ruby on Rails, especially in combination with virtual machine software (e.g., VMWare, VirtualBox, Xen HVM, KVM).

Managers Instruct, Leaders Coach

Managers Instruct, Leaders Coach

A key difference between managers and leaders is that managers instruct, while leaders coach.

Hoedown Bound

Jesse Newland and I are currently on our way up to Nashville for this year’s Ruby Hoedown, the South’s regional Ruby conference. We’re both looking forward to good talks, demos, and of course hacking on some awesome stuff. We’ll definitely be at the Smash-Up Derby, as well as a few other things in the area.

Double Shot #527

Is it Friday yet? No? Gotta work then.

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