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

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

Hello my dear friends. Today we will continue to talk about Chef Solo. All the example codes mentioned here, you can find at: github.com/le0pard/chef-solo-example/tree/5.0. In the previous article, we’ve learned about Chef cookbooks. In this article we will learn what Continue

Preface In Rails, automatic code reloading in development mode is based on autoload, which is not threadsafe. It means you can’t use it while developing multithreaded Rails applications(especially for JRuby). But several monkeypatches can do the trick. Workaround When we Continue

Update (2012, 10 December) Authologic-team patched weird behavior with (I)LIKE and now Postgres users can make everything without clutches. Just use new version 3.2.0. Introduction User authentication – is the most utilized part of Authlogic gem. But default configuration of Continue

TL;DR Update airbrake-gem to last version and enable asynchronous delivery option to avoid latency in application response time. Introduction We used Airbrake (ex-Hoptoad) to track errors in our application. But, several months ago we noticed delays in application response time, Continue

Preface Using yield and blocks is what makes Ruby so different from other scripting languages. But in some cases yield can lead to unpredictable behavior and it’s crucial to understand what can go wrong. Let’s consider next code: File.open("/etc/hosts", "r") Continue

A few days ago my patch with the beginning_of_week config option has been merged to Rails master, so starting from Rails 4.0 we’ll gain full control over the week start day. Preface Working on Interstellar, I’ve found out that ActiveSupport Continue

With great pleasure we introduce to you a product developed by Railsware recently launched in the United States – Interstellar. Description Interstellar is a web application that features live, online academic competition – appropriate for any grade, subject, or skill Continue

Hello my dear friends. Today we will talk about the way, how we share handlebars templates in Rails 3. In the previous article I explained you how we share mustache templates between rails backend and javascript frontend in our company. Continue