Archive for the “ruby” category

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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Nanite agents now in daemon-kit

by Kenneth Kalmer on April 30, 2009

My recent love affair with AMQP & nanite has been quite a nice boost to daemon-kit. First it got a neat AMQP consumer generator, and today it got a nanite agent generator with sample actor. Here is how to get (…)

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