Release gem; Deploy gem; Update a gem created with Jeweler
Until May 2011 our gems have been created with Jeweler, which is a helper library to package code into a gem. You know a gem was cut with Jeweler if you see the word jeweler in a gem project's Rakefile.
This note describes how to update a gem that was cut using Jeweler. Note that this can be traumatic the first time. It would be great to have an easier workflow for this. Jeweler is deprecated these days because you can
**now [cut gems more easily using Bundler](https://makandracards.com/makandra/1229-updat...
How to fix "Too many authentic authentication failures" with SSH and/or Capistrano
You are getting when connecting via SSH or deploying with Capistrano (which uses SSH):
Too many authentication failures for username
This is caused by having too many SSH keys added to your keyring or ssh-agent. Your ssh-agent will throw all keys against a server until one matches. Most servers will deny access after 5 attempts.
This issue might come and go as the order of the active SSH keys in your ssh-agent changes.
Quick fix
Have less keys. Up to 5 keys are fine when the SSHD you're connecting to is using the default ...
The Exciter - Why You Should Deploy Your Next Application on Ruby 1.9 and a Rant in General
The rubyforge gems model may not be perfect, but damnit people, when there’s a gem update I know that it has actually been tested somewhat and it’s not just whatever random point HEAD happens to be at, at that point in time, by some random Joe who just bought TextMate.
saizai's superdeploy at master - GitHub
A collection of useful utilities for Capistrano deployments
rubaidh's rubaidhstrano at master - GitHub
Capistrano recipes for database backups before migrations, passenger deployment strategy, release tagging in Git repos.
Deployment Script Spring Cleaning - GitHub
As we get ready to upgrade our servers I thought it’d be a good time to upgrade our deployment process. Currently pushing out a new version of GitHub takes upwards of 15 minutes. Ouch. My goal: one minute deploys (excluding server restart time).