Deploying Rails (2.0) to Mongrel with Capistrano 2.1
Tags: capistrano,
mongrel,
ruby on rails
Posted 1009 days ago.
Capistrano 2.1 includes some major improvements over the 1.x branch, so everyone should start using it right away. Yet it doesn't work with Mongrel out of the box and it's most likely not backwards compatible with your old deploy recipes. Since there is no official documentation on how to get going with Rails and Mongrel, I put together these instructions.
Read more ... (801 words) 9 Comments.RubyRobot Theme for Textmate
Tags: mac os x,
ruby on rails,
textmate
Posted 1245 days ago.
A color theme for my favourite text editor Textmate. Easy on the eye and optimized for working with Ruby on Rails, HTML, PHP and Javascript files. Colors appear a bit too bright with Safari in the screenshots, but that seems to be the old color profile guessing issue.

Ruby on Rails 1.2 Released
Tags: ruby on rails
Posted 1289 days ago.
It's there finally: Ruby on Rails 1.2 as been announced today. Read all about it in the official announcement on the Rails weblog. I have upgraded Rails on my development box and everything runs smooth so far.
Read more ... (117 words) 1 Comments.General Help
Tags: ruby,
rubygems,
ruby on rails,
subversion,
wget
Posted 1319 days ago.
Wherever on this site you see a box like this with text in a monospaced font, it means you will have to open a terminal window and type the text after the dollar sign ($) in your terminal:
Some software you are likely to need:
Read more ... (202 words)Apache 2.2 With Load Balancing For Mongrel + Ruby on Rails
Tags: apache,
deployment,
load balancing,
mongrel,
php,
ruby on rails
Posted 1346 days ago.
You would like to set up a Mongrel cluster for your Rails application, running on top of Apache 2.2 with fancy load balancing enabled, but your Linux distro features only an older version of Apache?
This article will take you through compiling the software for yourself. Just make sure you have all the tools installed, such as a C-Compiler and GNU make. If you are unsure what to install, look for a meta-package called "Devel" or "Development", that will install all the necessary packages for you.
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