You probably already manage servers you often connect to inside the ~/.ssh/config file. What is nice: you may define alias...
One of the more controversial changes in the Ubuntu 10.04 beta is the Mac OS-inspired change to have window...
Before installing chef, make sure curl is installed and sudo finds your gems setup chef-client: follow this guide
We regularly need to connect to the server in order to e.g. access the production console. Guessing the Capistrano deploy...
When you simply want to get to know Puppet, follow puppetlabs’ Learning Puppet Docs. They give you a handy introduction...
We recently decided to put static content for HouseTrip.com to Amazon Cloudfront for a faster user experience. This happens fully...
Install Ubuntu Server Download an image from this site Select File > New… to and follow the instructions, choose the .iso...
Occasionally you need to do something directly on the server -- like having all records recalculate something that cannot be done...
You can seriously speed up deployments with Capistrano when using a local git repository on the server you are deploying...
When deploying an application with "cap deploy" by default [1] you only deploy your code but do not run migrations...
If you want to have a new log file every day automatically, but avoid using logrotate, the CustomLog directive is...
If you are using RVM on a Mac and cannot enter 8+ bit characters on an IRB or Rails console...
ActiveRecord models know how to cast a given string to the type of a given attribute (or column).
Reading a URL via GET: curl http://example.com/ Defining any HTTP method (like POST or PUT): curl http://example.com/users/1...
Since version 1.5 RubyGems requires at least Ruby 1.8.7. The last one working with Ruby 1.8.6 was RubyGems 1.4.2.
It is common in Rails 3.0 applications that you want to provide default views for a group of controllers. Let...
When installing RMagick you may get an error messages like this: Version 2.13.1: checking for Ruby version >= 1.8.5... yes
If you want to manually check if e-mail delivery works on a machine by sending an e-mail you...
mitmproxy is an SSL-capable, intercepting HTTP proxy. It provides a console interface that allows traffic flows to be inspected...
blueprint is DevStructure’s workhorse tool that looks inside popular package managers, finds changes you made to configuration files, and...
Specify these gem versions in your Gemfile: gem 'cucumber', '~> 1.3.0' gem 'cucumber-rails', '= 0.3.2' # max version for Rails 2
The shell variable PS1 holds your bash prompt. You might want to change it to serve your needs best. Here...
Install OpenSSH Server: sudo apt-get install openssh-server To check if the server is running you should get no...
You will occasionally need to clean out your database while keeping the schema intact, e.g. when someone inserted data in...