Carl Mercier's blog

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 [...]

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 [...]