Capistrano for your daemons

by Kenneth Kalmer on May 26, 2009

Nothing like some possitive feedback to keep you looking after your own projects, and the feedback on daemon-kit has been great so far. My TODO list is growing every day with more features that I need, and others need as (…)

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Safety nets for your Ruby daemons

by Kenneth Kalmer on May 13, 2009

Daemon-kit has been getting a lot of TLC from me lately, and it’s not going to stop anytime soon. As I wander deeper and deeper into AMQP territory, I need to extend daemon-kit to cope with all kinds of new (…)

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Quick *nix shadow passwords with Ruby

by Kenneth Kalmer on May 1, 2009

Just thought I’d share this one to boost the available online information. Using String#crypt and man crypt you’ll come up with something similar to the gist below (extract from a project I’m busy working on). module Linux class User class (…)

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