Preface In previous articles we discussed application with slow resources and heroku queuing time problems. Today we find out how to setup HAProxy as “slow-fast” request balancer for heroku application using Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud. You need: non optimized application Continue

Problem To be honest you don’t have ideal application during start-up development. Some actions are not so fast as you want. For instance you may have some heavy admin reports requests, some lazy import/exports actions, slow third part services network Continue

Preface There are two methods to programmatically use Skype: Via the native desktop Skype application using Skype Desktop API Via SkypeKit Runtime using SkypeKit SDK wrapper. The first method is rather slow due to an interaction with the user interface. Continue

Preface In non trivial projects we often use SOA approach. Thereby one big monolithic application can be segregated into smaller applications or services. The benefit is obvious – it’s easy to control and maintain small applications. If you use Rails Continue

Capybara with Given/When/Then steps in acceptance testing. Many of us use cucumber to write acceptance tests. We must to say it’s very nice tool that allows you to write features in English plain text. The main goal is provide interface Continue

Trouble There are some cases when you may need to access application session in your tests: User signup or registration flow is too long. Application use another backend and store result into session. In each story you must repeat the Continue

Preface When you develop some cool gem that should work in different ruby frameworks you definitely should write acceptance tests. Nowadays it’s pretty easy to do with RSpec+Capybara. Your goal Assume you develop MyRackMiddleware gem that should work in Sinatra Continue

Today we’ll talk about deploying multiple applications via single Capistrano project, managing its deployment configurations in a single place. This approach is a must for projects with multiple applications deployment and recommended for any other project using Capistrano for deployment. Continue

Introduction One day our client asked us about product deployment notification. Initially we wanted to use mail-list or create special skype chat, but it turned out to be unreliable and inconvenient: hard to filter notification emails hard to track deploment Continue

What if you have several servers with different users, ssh-keys, and even port numbers? How to manage all this stuff flexibly ? This tutorial covers poorly documented Capistrano features for advanced servers and roles configuration. Many of them obtained via Continue