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Hosting your Rails app – first look at Heroku

Introduction: You should really get professional help

I am building an app and needed to show an unfinished version to some guy. As I am building on a local (windows!) box, I decided that it’s time to invest some time in finding out what options there are to host a Rails app.

How To Ensure Your Email Gets Delivered

It goes without saying that email is the de facto method by which online businesses communicate with users and clients; without a doubt, it’s a necessary and core function of business today. That being the case, how does a business know that its  email is actually getting delivered?

Despite how significant email is, there’s confusion and a general lack of education about why email may or may not make it to its destination. So, I’ve spent some time putting together some helpful tips, and just as importantly, a list of things you want to be sure to avoid.

Capistrano, Git and SSH keys

This trick has been around for a while, but I’ve talked with several people that didn’t know about it.

When deploying apps with Capistrano, your server needs to have access to the Git repository. Generating an SSH key for each server is a bit of a pain, but there’s an easier way: SSH agent forwarding enables you to use any of your local SSH keys on the server. It’s really easy to set up.

Enable SSH forwarding in deploy.rb:

SSL and Rails

About SSL

Net::SSH and friends, update

This is a multi-project release announcement, so brace yourselves.

In short, Net::SSH 2.0.9, Net::SFTP 2.0.2, Net::SSH::Gateway 1.0.1, and Net::SSH::Multi 1.0.1 have been released. Get ‘em while they’re hot!

It’s all just bug fixes, for the most part, but if you want more nitty gritty, read on.

Net::SSH 2.0.9

The following issues have been addressed in Net::SSH 2.0.9:

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