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nginx – Reading the fine print

by Kenneth Kalmer on May 15, 2008

Surely your Rails app flies, no request takes longer than 60 seconds to complete, ever. You’ve proven that Rails can scale and all that jazz. Surely you’ve really spent the time to read the nginx wiki and customize Ezra’s nginx.conf (…)

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Cohosting on Rubyforge & GitHub

by Kenneth Kalmer on May 2, 2008

Thanks to Dr Nic Williams for highlighting this at such an awesome time. I’ve got the source for ActiveRecord::Tableless now on GitHub and RubyForge, thanks to git. So you can grab a copy any time you want and contribute patches (…)

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Cleaning up capistrano deployments

by Kenneth Kalmer on April 28, 2008

The basic “cap deploy:cleanup” does its job well, but can leave traces behind. I recently picked up that one of my servers in a Rails cluster had plenty more release directories than its peers, and they were very old. I (…)

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Cheating Git

by Kenneth Kalmer on April 24, 2008

Nope, its not another post about how incredible git is, instead I’m just gonna highlight a quick way to get used to git and/or git-svn during the transition (yes, resistance is futile). $ sudo gem install cheat $ cheat git (…)

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