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A good article about deploying to EC2

July 27th, 2009 · No Comments

Ben Curtis has a good article about deploying to EC2.
http://www.bencurtis.com/archives/2009/07/automating-ec2-deployments-with-ruby/

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Tags: AWS · code · rails

OAuth articles from stakeventures.com

July 23rd, 2009 · No Comments

A couple of good articles about integrating OAuth into your Rails app.
http://stakeventures.com/articles/2009/07/21/consuming-oauth-intelligently-in-rails
http://stakeventures.com/articles/2007/11/26/how-to-turn-your-rails-site-into-an-oauth-provider
http://github.com/pelle/oauth-plugin/tree/master

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Tags: Rails Plugins · code · rails · security

Articles about using Delayed Job in Rails

July 23rd, 2009 · No Comments

http://railscasts.com/episodes/171-delayed-job – A good railscast about using Delayed Job.
http://www.therailsway.com/2009/7/22/do-it-later-with-delayed-job – Article by TheRailsWay about why to use and how to use.
It looks like are really simple way to offload long running tasks.

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Tags: Rails Plugins · code · rails · scaling

Links about Cucumber for BDD Testing

July 9th, 2009 · No Comments

Cucumber looks interesting but I am still not sold that it is necessary.  It feels a little overkill.  What do you think?
Here are some links to see how to use it and how it works.
http://www.engineyard.com/blog/2009/cucumber-introduction/
http://www.engineyard.com/blog/2009/cucumber-more-advanced/
http://railscasts.com/episodes/155-beginning-with-cucumber
http://railscasts.com/episodes/159-more-on-cucumber

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Another good article from intridea about CloudFront

July 9th, 2009 · No Comments

In this article, Intridea shows you how to use CloudFront and AssetPackager together and prevent stale copies of assets from being served.
http://www.intridea.com/posts/amazon-cloudfront-preventing-stale-assets

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Tags: AWS · Rails Plugins · code · rails · scaling · web

A really good article about setting up and running Cassandra

July 7th, 2009 · No Comments

Here is a really good article about using Cassandra from Evan Weaver.
http://blog.evanweaver.com/articles/2009/07/06/up-and-running-with-cassandra/

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Tags: code · install · rails · scaling · web

CloudFront and Paperclip plugin

July 7th, 2009 · No Comments

A good article about using CloudFront from Amazon and the Paperclip plugin for Rails.  http://www.intridea.com/posts/using-amazon-cloudfront-to-serve-assets

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Tags: Rails Plugins · code · rails · scaling · web

Making Erubis 2.6.4 and Rails 2.3 work together

June 18th, 2009 · No Comments

I decided about a week ago that I wanted to try Erubis with a Rails project to see if I got any performance boost.  So after reading the documentation, it appeared to be straightforward to install.  So I did.
But I discovered that the latest Erubis (2.6.4) and Rails 2.3 are not compatible.  After doing some [...]

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A good post for inspecting running ruby processes

March 23rd, 2009 · No Comments

http://pivotallabs.com/users/steve/blog/articles/746-inspect-running-ruby-processes-using-xray-and-kill-3

This is great when you need to figure out what a ruby process is doing and adds more visibility what is happening in real time.

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Some good tips for scaling a rails app

February 23rd, 2009 · No Comments

http://axonflux.com/building-and-scaling-a-startup

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