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Our old solution for cronjobs, the "craken" plugin, is no longer maintained and does not work on Rails 3.2+.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.\
If you get this error while deploy and you are sure the Gemfile.lock is in the version control check your...
When you have a complex recipe setup with multistage deployment you may run into this error: `role_list_from': unknown...
Whenever you deploy using Capistrano, a new folder is created within the releases directory on the remote server containing the...
Attached is a working config to deploy an application with Capistrano that needs to monitor Resque workers with God.
This post is not about devops, it's not about lean startups, it's not about web scale, it's...
When you have a hook in your Capistrano file that dumps your remote database, you might not want it to...
We regularly need to connect to the server in order to e.g. access the production console. Guessing the Capistrano deploy...
We recently decided to put static content for HouseTrip.com to Amazon Cloudfront for a faster user experience. This happens fully...
When deploying an application with "cap deploy" by default [1] you only deploy your code but do not run migrations...
After updating your RubyGems, you will probably not be able to run Capistrano any more, but receive an error similar...
Note that this sounds good but is not good at all when hooking tasks on cap deploy (see this article...