Net::SSH::Exception: could not settle on encryption_client algorithm

Posted Over 7 years ago by Thomas Eisenbarth.

TL;DR: Update the 'net-ssh' gem by adding to your Gemfile: gem 'net-ssh', '=2.9.1' Now run bundle update...

Geordi 1.5.1 released

Posted Over 7 years ago by Dominik Schöler.
github.com

Improve geordi cucumber: Only attempt @solo run when the specified files contain the @solo tag, skip @solo run if any...

Capistrano: exclude custom bundle groups for production deploy

Posted Over 7 years ago by Daniel Straßner.

Capistrano is by default configured to exclude the gems of the groups development and test when deploying to the stages...

Building web applications: Beyond the happy path

Posted Almost 8 years ago by Dominik Schöler.

When building a web application, one is tempted to claim it "done" too early. Make sure you check this list...

Using Bumbler to Reduce Runtime Dependencies - The Lean Software Boutique

Posted Almost 8 years ago by Henning Koch.
ombulabs.com

Tool to show you which gems are slow to load: ➜ git:(master) ✗ bundle exec bumbler [################################################# ] (49/65) travis-lint...

Bundler: Install gems behind a proxy

Posted About 8 years ago by Henning Koch.

To install gems Bundler needs to be able to talk to https://api.rubygems.org. If you are behind a proxy you...

Geordi 1.3 released

Posted About 8 years ago by Dominik Schöler.

Geordi is now (partially) tested with Cucumber. Yay! geordi cucumber supports a new @solo tag. Scenarios tagged with @solo...

Showing a custom maintenance page while deploying

Posted About 8 years ago by Pascal Roth.
github.com

Note The maintenance mode is enabled on all application server as soon as the file /public/system/maintenance.html is present. Installation

Geordi 1.2 released

Posted Over 8 years ago by Dominik Schöler.
github.com

Remove some old binaries (commands still exist in geordi) and mark others as deprecated Rewrite deploy command to support...

Make nokogiri >=1.6.0 use system libxml2

Posted Over 8 years ago by Emanuel.

Quick check: bin/rails runner 'puts Nokogiri::VersionInfo.new.libxml2_using_system?' Step by step instruction Nokogiri uses vendored libxml2 since version...

Upgrade from Ruby 1.8.7 to 2.1.5 – an incomplete guide

Posted Over 8 years ago.

I recommend to go straight to 2.1.5+ without intermediate steps. Otherwhise you burden yourself with unnecessary work of encoding problems...

whenever: Preview the crontab

Posted Over 8 years ago by Henning Koch.

If you'd like to preview the crontab that whenever will deploy, run the following: bundle exec whenever

Capistrano 3 has slightly changed its symlink implementation

Posted Over 8 years ago by Dominik Schöler.

In Capistrano 2, directories in shared_children used to be symlinked to the shared directory during the finalize_update task...

Reverse-proxying web applications with Apache 2.4+

Posted Almost 9 years ago by Henning Koch.

Note: Making a reverse proxy with nginx is much more straightforward. A reverse proxy is a "man in the middle...

Upgrading from Capistrano 2 to 3

Posted Almost 9 years ago by Dominik Schöler.
semaphoreci.com

Capistrano 3 is a major rework of the framework and requires several adjustments to your deploy configuration files. The biggest...

Slack integration for deployments via Capistrano

Posted About 9 years ago by Arne Hartherz.
github.com

You can hook into Slack when using Capistrano for deployment. The slackistrano gem does most of the heavy lifting for...

Geordi 1.0 released

Posted Over 9 years ago by Dominik Schöler.
github.com

Geordi 1.0 features a command line application geordi, that holds most of Geordi's previous commands. New features

better rails app restart with the passenger restart-app tool

Posted Almost 10 years ago by Kim Klotz.

With this command you can initiate an application restart without touching restart.txt. Unlike touching restart.txt, this tool initiates the restart...

A simpler default controller implementation

Posted Over 10 years ago by Henning Koch.

Rails has always included a scaffold script that generates a default controller implementation for you. Unfortunately that generated controller is...

How to use the Capistrano 2 shell to execute commands on servers

Posted Over 10 years ago by Arne Hartherz.
weblog.jamisbuck.org

Capistrano 2 brings the shell command which allows you to run commands on your deployment targets. There is also invoke...

Common mistakes when storing file uploads with Rails

Posted Almost 11 years ago by Henning Koch.

1. Saving files to a directory that is not shared between deploys or servers If you save your uploads to...

Upgrading Rails 2 from 2.3.8 through 2.3.18 to Rails LTS

Posted Almost 11 years ago by Henning Koch.

This card shows how to upgrade a Rails 2 application from Rails 2.3.8 through every single patch level up to...

Clean up application servers when deploying

Posted Almost 11 years ago by Thomas Eisenbarth.

Our development process makes us deploy very often. As the number of releases grows, junk clogs up the hard drive...

Capistrano: Bundler stalls and asks for "Username"

Posted About 11 years ago by Thomas Eisenbarth.

Given you use Capistrano together with bundler to automatically install your gems when deploying. I recently had the problem that...