This is a short overview of things that are required to upgrade a project from the Asset Pipeline to Webpacker...
Remember How to skip Sprockets asset compile during Capistrano deployment and Automatically skipping asset compilation when assets have not changed...
Font Awesome 5 is a comprehensive solution for vector icons on your website. Originally, Font Awesome came as an icon...
Phusion Passenger changed the way how it gets restarted several times. Through the project's history, these all were valid...
In this example we assume that not only the storage gem changes but also the file structure on disc.
Just like Ruby Gems tag their version releases to the corresponding Git commit, it can be helpful to track production...
In medium-sized to large Rails applications, asset compilation can take several minutes. In order to speed up deployment, asset...
By default, Capistrano truncates server responses and places an ellipsis at the end of lines that are longer than your...
For applications coming with lots of stylesheets and scripts, asset compilation might take quite long. This can be annoying when...
Understanding your type of cronjob Some cronjobs must only run on a single server. E.g. when you run nightly batch...
Capistrano has the concept of a "rollback" that comes in really handy in case of errors. When you notice that...
When you have a multi-server setup, you'll be adding a new server from time to time. Before doing...
By default Middleman generates files with a .html extension. Because of this all your URLs end in /foo.html instead of...
Sometimes, through some firewall or proxy misconfiguration, you might have to deploy to a server that cannot access the git...
Looks like ActiveState is trying to market a new Ruby distribution for Enterprises: ActiveRuby Enterprise Edition is designed for businesses...
On application servers, gems are usually bundled into the project directory, at a location shared across deployments. This is usually...
Reminder of what you can do with Geordi. Note: If you alias Geordi to something short like g, running commands...
Sometimes huge refactorings or refactoring of core concepts of your application are necessary for being able to meet new requirements...
TL;DR: Update the 'net-ssh' gem by adding to your Gemfile: gem 'net-ssh', '=2.9.1' Now run bundle update...
Improve geordi cucumber: Only attempt @solo run when the specified files contain the @solo tag, skip @solo run if any...
Capistrano is by default configured to exclude the gems of the groups development and test when deploying to the stages...
Geordi is now (partially) tested with Cucumber. Yay! geordi cucumber supports a new @solo tag. Scenarios tagged with @solo...
Note The maintenance mode is enabled on all application server as soon as the file /public/system/maintenance.html is present. Installation
Remove some old binaries (commands still exist in geordi) and mark others as deprecated Rewrite deploy command to support...