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...
This should not be necessary in any case and is only for special cases, for e.g. if the assets...
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...
Middleman is a static page generator that brings many of the goodies that Rails developers are used to.
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...
We generally use multiple application servers (at least two) and you have to search on all of them if you...
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...
When building a web application, one is tempted to claim it "done" too early. Make sure you check this list...
Tool to show you which gems are slow to load: ➜ git:(master) ✗ bundle exec bumbler [################################################# ] (49/65) travis-lint...
To install gems Bundler needs to be able to talk to https://api.rubygems.org. If you are behind a proxy you...
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...
The nokogiri gem provides different packages for several platforms. Each platform-specific variant ships pre-built binaries of libxml2, e.g...