It is not a secret that New Relic has become an industry standard for web applications performance measurement among Ruby on Rails developers. Being a contributing member of Rails community, Railsware is not just an active New Relic user, but Continue

After almost a year of silence, I’m happy to announce the new version of PivotalBooster! So, what’s new? First of all, the most requested product feature – “All Stories” – is now available. In addition to that, we have merged Continue

Hello my dear friends. Today we will continue talking about a Chef Server. All the code examples you can find here: github.com/le0pard/chef-server-example/tree/1.0. In this article we will learn what is the Chef Server and how to setup it up. Before Continue

This article is about gotchas you should be aware of while building your API with Ruby on Rails. Controller tricks: API on Metal Sooner or later each Rails developer come to a point when he wants to build his first Continue

Tired of waiting for git to checkout your code? Fed up with sluggish assets precompilation? Don’t want to waste your time while waiting for bundler to install shitload of gems? Zero Deploy gem brought to you by Railsware aimed at Continue

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

One of the most exciting things about Heroku is that you can scale in a single click – just add more dynos, and you can immediately handle higher load. This post is about our experience of hosting high load application Continue

At some time, you came to a point when you need to pick a solution for a deployment of your project, and you decided to pick Chef. Okay, but I have to disappoint you from the start – if you Continue

Amazon Auto Scaling Groups (ASG) present a new requirement for applications that will utilize this feature. When a new instance spins up, it has to know what to do. The Problem Let’s follow the steps leading to scaling up application. Continue

This is a guide to setting up the Heroku toolset so that you can deploy an existing Heroku app, or create a new app on Heroku. As you may not yet know, the vanilla Heroku toolset can only work with Continue