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Simple Rails/Ruby Application Configuration

February 11, 2009 - There are a number of plugins and gems that will provide you with various ways to define configuration for your application, search google for "rails configuration plugin". Alternatively, you can use OpenStruct (in Ruby standard library) to create a rich constant with various…
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RubyInline in Shared Rails Environments

May 23, 2008 - As an end-to-end web production company, we have a vested interest in making Rails applications easier to deploy for both development and production purposes. We’ve developed Tyrant, a Rails app for running Rails apps, and we’re eagerly watching as new solutions are…
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Drizzle and Ruby on Rails

July 29, 2008 - I recently went to the 2008 O’Reilly Open Source Conference to give a tutorial on plugins for Rails. I recorded it, and if you’re interested in understanding and building plugins, I think there’s some good stuff there. What’s more exciting to me than that…
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Training Event: Ruby on Rails with Chad Fowler

December 29, 2006 - Viget Labs has invited Chad Fowler into town for 3 days of Ruby on Rails training. Chad is the author of Rails Recipes, a speaker at the upcoming Rails Edge conference, and, as one of the top Rails trainers, has provided private training sessions to developers around the…
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Ruby on Rails: Making the Jump to LiteSpeed

November 27, 2006 - As RoR becomes more mainstream, hosting a Rails application in a production environment becomes increasingly important. There are numerous tutorials explaining how to cobble together mongrel, apache, lighttpd, fastcgi, and friends, but the amount of configuration can be…
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ComputerWorld Lists Ruby on Rails as a Top 5 Technology for 2007

March 6, 2007 - ComputerWorld listed The Top Five Technologies You Need to Know About in '07 last Friday and Ruby on Rails topped the list (congrats, 37Signals). As they put it: Equal parts design philosophy and development environment, Rails offers developers a few key code-level advantages…
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Rails Apps

We use Ruby on Rails to build good stuff fast. Since 2007, Viget has been using the Ruby language and Rails framework to create organized, secure, well-tested web applications for our clients. We leverage open source technology to avoid wheel reinvention, and contribute our own.
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SavingPlaces.org

Discover places that matter. The National Trust for Historic Preservation is a non-profit organization whose mission is to help people protect, revitalize and enjoy the places that matter to them — from sites like George Washington’s Mount Vernon home to that favorite…
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Social Assets Creator

A social media feed is always hungry, and for marketing and communication managers, providing social channels with a steady diet of eye-catching content is a must. Startup PostCreator saw opportunity in this 24/7 media demand — why not create a tool that helps users easily…
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Testing Solr and Sunspot (locally and on CircleCI)

November 27, 2018 - All the configuration necessary to test your Solr- and Sunspot-powered search.