One of my friends is somewhat new to Rails, and certainly new to rails deployment. He was a bit unclear about what role the different parts of the rails deployment stack (Nginx, passenger and rails) were in serving the request, so I wrote up the following and figured...
When developing a service-oriented architecture, we may run into a situation where we want to kill the process that is listening on a given port. Sometimes, you can accomplish this with the wonderful pkill utility, for instance if there is only one process with that...
Step 1: Generate your SSL key and certificate signing request: Note: you'll have to put the domain name in as the "common name". openssl req -new -newkey rsa:2048 -nodes -keyout example.com.key -out example.com.csr Step 2: Get your certificate Log into GoDaddy...
tl;dr: meta-programming in javascript is just called “programming” because the methods used are familiar and used for non-meta-programming tasks, unlike ruby which requires a large set of specialized knowledge that is only used within the task of meta-programming. ...
I started a project (repo/) with a number of subdirectories: repo/ web/ ingester/ bulkendpoint/ doc/ ... This worked fine in the beginning, but then I wanted to be able to branch, merge and deploy just the "web" subdirectory. It took a good 10 minutes of man pages...
Copy and paste the following into your terminal: sudo su apt-get install -y gcc g++ git-core libssl-dev curl -lO https://raw.github.com/isaacs/nave/master/nave.sh chmod +x nave.sh ./nave.sh usemain 0.4.11 curl http://npmjs.org/install.sh | sh After you authenticate...
Use ruby-debug 0.10.3; the newer 0.10.4 has a bug that breaks this gem install ruby-debug -v=0.10.3 Someone on the SF Ruby mailing list asked about how to save breakpoints with ruby-debug, so I made a quick video on how to do it. No editing, one take..
grep -ir "eval\|method_missing\|define_method\|instance_variable_set" app lib/ | wc -l A score in the double digits should give pause, the tripple digits are scary and quadruple digits? run for the hills.
Working on a project for a client, I wanted to know what the most $-efficient way to keep stuff in ram on EC2-east. These boxes will only have traffic within the AZ, so there were no bandwidth costs. I compared On-Demand prices with Reserved prices (assuming 1 year commitment...
