UNIX

Fikus: Deploying Padrino to Engine Yard AppCloud

Padrino and Engine Yard AppCloud
Engine Yard AppCloud is a great platform for deploying Ruby on Rails applications quickly and easily. It's not only good for Rails, but it also makes it just as easy to deploy any application using Rack or Rack-based frameworks like Sinatra.

I'm a big fan of Sinatra and use it for both internal and personal projects.

JRuby 1.5.0 Released: The Best Alternative Ruby Implementation Gets Even Better

Following on five months after the release of the popular JRuby 1.4, the JRuby team have delivered JRuby 1.5!

GitHub Rebase #38

Welcome to Rebase 38. Suggestions for projects to cover are always welcome, check out the criteria here. In the meantime, check out this preview of some neat visualizations using the GitHub API of how developers are connected:

GitHub Rebase #36

As always, if you have neat projects you want to show off send me a message! I usually try to keep a balance of languages/domains between the posts, so don’t lose hope if your project isn’t in the latest issue. Just please have a README so you can show others (and me!) how to setup/use your project.

Homebrew: OS X’s Missing Package Manager

Managing software packages on Unix has always been, to put it politely, a giant pain, and most Linux distributions are built around the different ways we’ve all been trying to alleviate that pain. In this post, I’ll walk you through Homebrew, a fantastic new option for package management made simple.

7 Top Ruby and Rails Jobs for January 2010

Looking for a Ruby or Rails job? There are still some good ones out there. They're getting posted daily on jobs.rubynow.com but we've got 6 special ones of our own that have come in via the Ruby Inside jobs board. Jobs this month come from the United Kingdom and the US (Portland, Chicago, Birmingham and Santa Barbara) and are, as usual, Rails heavy.

Tools of the trade

Peter Cooper of Ruby Inside recently asked if people wanted to write about the things that they use in their development work. So I jumped squarely onto that band wagon…

3 Unix commands for finding performance problems

A user recently reported a performance problem on one of our Rails apps. I pulled up New Relic’s performance graphs and checked what was happening around the time that we received the email. Sure enough there was a massive spike in the time taken to serve a request.

Brightbox sponsors NWRUG, 21st January, Manchester

I’m speaking at this month’s North West Ruby Group meeting about some of the tools available that can be used to solve common Ruby and Rails deployment and development problems. “UNIX: Rediscovering the wheel”.

Brightbox is also sponsoring the meeting so there will be free pizza afterwards (free as in pizza, not as in speech).

More details on the NWRUG blog page.

Hope to see you there!

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.

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