13 October 2008
By Carl Mercier
In Defensio, Ruby, Software development, Technology
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 [...]
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capistrano, deployment, install_gems, install_gems.rb, merb, rails, ruby, rubygems, rubyonrails
14 December 2007
By Carl Mercier
In Ruby, Software development
I love Leopard and I love my Mac. I think Apple made the right decision by bundling Ruby and Rails with Leopard. However, I believe they screwed up big time in the execution.
Leopard’s Rails installation worked great until I updated Rubygems with sudo gem update –system. After I did that, most of my [...]
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gem, leopard, mac, macports, osx, port, rails, ruby, rubygems, rubyonrails