The nokogiri gem provides different packages for several platforms. Each platform-specific variant ships pre-built binaries of libxml2, e.g...
If you'd like to preview the crontab that whenever will deploy, run the following: bundle exec whenever
Note: Making a reverse proxy with nginx is much more straightforward. A reverse proxy is a "man in the middle...
Capistrano 3 is a major rework of the framework and requires several adjustments to your deploy configuration files. The biggest...
You can hook into Slack when using Capistrano for deployment. The slackistrano gem does most of the heavy lifting for...
With this command you can initiate an application restart without touching restart.txt. Unlike touching restart.txt, this tool initiates the restart...
Capistrano 2 brings the shell command which allows you to run commands on your deployment targets. There is also invoke...
1. Saving files to a directory that is not shared between deploys or servers If you save your uploads to...
This card shows how to upgrade a Rails 2 application from Rails 2.3.8 through every single patch level up to...
Our development process makes us deploy very often. As the number of releases grows, junk clogs up the hard drive...
Geordi now has a script that runs capistrano with all known deploy targets (i.e. staging, production...). Use with geordi capistrano...
The way MySQL's FULLTEXT tokenizer splits text into word tokens might not always be what you need. E.g. it...
Our old solution for cronjobs, the "craken" plugin, is no longer maintained and does not work on Rails 3.2+.
When deploying, Capistrano puts a REVISION file into your application's release directory. It contains the hash of the commit...
If you upgrade to the mysql2 gem, you will run into the problem that the server's database.yml (which is...
When using the asset pipeline your assets (images, javascripts, stylesheets, fonts) live in folders inside app: app/assets/fonts app/assets/images...
deploy-to-production now calls Capistrano with bundle exec since we started to bundle Capistrano in all projects.
Capistrano recently had some API changes that can results in deploys not working when running with old deploy.rb files.
Geordi, our collection of command line tools, has been extended by another command deploy-to-production. This script encapsulates the...
When trying to install the gherkin gem, you might encounter an error with the following lines: ERROR: Error installing gherkin...
If your project manager wants to do gatekeeping on a project, as a developer you need to follow the following...
If you're responsible for gatekeeping in a projects, here is a guide, what to do. In order to reduce...
When deploying code with Capistrano (depending on your configuration) at some point Capistrano tries to check out code from your...
Removing features and merging those changes back can be painful. Here is how it worked for me.\