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...
I recommend to go straight to 2.1.5+ without intermediate steps. Otherwhise you burden yourself with unnecessary work of encoding problems...
Some tasks in a web application are better not done live when a user request a page, but in the...
Talk with a colleague and find out why we're using building some of our sites using static site...
If you'd like to preview the crontab that whenever will deploy, run the following: bundle exec whenever
What is rake good for? Take a look at some of the Rake tasks that Rails gives you (rake...
makandra's development process Learn about our process. The squares represent the state of the issue in Linear:
In Capistrano 2, directories in shared_children used to be symlinked to the shared directory during the finalize_update task...
Understand why we test: Low defect rate without a QA department. Customer acceptance testing can concentrate on new features...