So I’ve been trying to get Merb running on JRuby a good part of last night. I don’t know jack about Java, so this has been a little bit more challenging than it should have been. Most (if not all) of the tutorials I found were old and obsolete, so I decided to throw out [...]
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Announcing install_gems.rb
Over the weekend, I was rethinking the way we should deploy our Merb application (our API) for Defensio. Everything I’ll say here applies to Rails as well. Managing gems has been painful lately. Like most people, we’re freezing them, which helps tremendously. However, there’s a few problems with this approach: We can’t freeze C extensions [...]
Deploying Rails on the Cheap
Yesterday, I presented at Montreal on Rails. What a great crowd it was! As promised, here are my slides. Feel free to get in touch if you have any question about my presentation.