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Passenger: Let It Ride?
April 21, 2008 - Rails application deployment has gotten a pretty bad rep. Legitimate Rails developers and blog trolls alike have bemoaned the lack of something equivalent to mod_php, which would make Rails applications "just work" when uploaded to a web server, as we got used to doing in the…
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Maintaining Lookup Data in Your Rails Application
April 22, 2008 - Early last year, Dave Thomas gave a great talk on Metaprogramming in Ruby which he reprised last week at April's NovaRUG meeting. One of the quick examples he gave during the talk inspired me to work on an idea that began as a submission to Advanced Rails Recipes, turned into a…
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Building an Environment From Scratch With Capistrano 2
April 30, 2008 - I recently attended the Pragmatic Programmers Advanced Rails Studio. Overall, I thought it was great. Even though I've had personal experience in most of the topics covered, it filled in a lot of gaps in my personal knowledge. I came out of the three days feeling more…
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Linux Distributions For Rails Hosting: Viget's First Annual(?) Shakedown
July 18, 2008 - Here at Viget, we've done a variety of Rails deployments for our many clients. Nearly all of these have been to dedicated Linux systems, and between those we've seen a number of different Linux distributions. Which distribution has what it takes to successfully run your…
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OSCON and the Future of Open Source
July 28, 2008 - Last week, I attended the 10th annual O’Reilly Open Source Conference (OSCON) in Portland, Oregon, and, as usual, came back inspired and excited about where the open source community is headed. At Viget, we use almost entirely open-source technology for our development,…
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Railsconf Europe Wrapup
September 8, 2008 - Finally, back in the office! I spent the last week in Berlin for Railsconf Europe, and though the travel can be painful at times, the conference more than made up for it. A few highlights: Bratwurst on Rails - just like last year, the Berlin Ruby user group grilled thousands of…
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Scala: The Adventure Begins!
September 24, 2008 - I’ve been enthusiastic about the Scala programming language for a few months now, and this week’s been very exciting for the Scala community. A new Scala book from the Pragmatic Programmers was announced today, and Alex Payne from Twitter gave a presentation at C4…
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Voyport’s International Mobile Service Site Launches
September 30, 2008 - Since October 2007, we've been working with Voyport to plan, design, and build their new International Mobile Service platform. The hard work culminated in August, when we launched their platform, which was built on Ruby on Rails, that interfaces with Voyport's own in-house…
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Under Pressure: Lessons Learned from 48 Hours of Design
October 31, 2008 - The weekend before last, I participated in Rails Rumble: a 48-hour contest between small teams of Ruby on Rails developers worldwide. Viget had members in four of the teams, and everyone really delivered (you can read more about the others here). Our team (Patrick Reagan,…
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Spoonflower Prints Fabric for Everyone
October 31, 2008 - Spoonflower, a NC-based start-up that prints custom designs on fabric, announced this week that it was leaving private beta and introducing itself to the world. And because we -- under Clinton's lead -- helped to bring their idea to life online, we couldn't be prouder. We built…