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When iOS 7 was publicly presented at WWDC 2013, my first impression on it was based on the screenshots with those weird icons and great parallax effect. Seemed like this is the same stuff as we had before, but flattened and colored in acid. But then, I’ve realised this is …
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 also a partner. So, when we heard about New Relic …
Hello my dear friends. Today we will talk about a Chef Server. In this article we will learn what is the Chef Server and how to setup it up. Before reading this article, it’s better to read my articles about Chef Solo. Here I’ll explain only those things that hasn’t …
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 API.Among the first things you have to take care of …
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 solving all these problems and improving all the stages of …
This is a guest blog post from Bill Hodak, Director of Product Marketing at New Relic, the SaaS-based application management provider and a Railsware partner. If you’re a mobile app developer, you know the challenges of getting your app to market. With over 1.5 million available apps in the Apple …
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 on Heroku and situation when adding more dynos does not …
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 don’t have any experience with Chef, then you’re going to …
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. First, conditions set by one of your monitoring alarms should …
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 a single Heroku account. This is fine for personal use, …