Tag Archives: ruby-on-rails

Capistrano Deploy with Git and Passenger

Posted on June 17, 2008 by Geoff Lane

One of the great things about Rails and its community is that they are very lazy. Lazy in the good way of not wanting to do boring, repetitive, error prone things manually. They metaprogram and they automate. A great example … Continue reading →

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Mongrel Cluster and Apache Need Memory

Posted on August 22, 2007 by Geoff Lane

I use a VPS hosted by SliceHost as my personal server. SliceHost uses Xen to host multiple instances of Linux on a single machine. The performance of this setup has been very good. I have been running: Apache 2.2 with … Continue reading →

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Active Directory Authentication for Ruby on Rails

Posted on June 4, 2007 by Geoff Lane

Ruby on Rails can be used to build many kinds of web applications including public internet applications as well as private intranet ones. As an intranet application it is often very interesting to be able to do Single Sign-On using … Continue reading →

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Making Session Data Available to Models in Ruby on Rails

Posted on May 29, 2007 by Geoff Lane

Ruby on Rails is implemented as the Model View Controller (MVC) pattern. This pattern separates the context of the Web Application (in the Controller and the View) from the core Model of the application. The Model contains the Domain objects … Continue reading →

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RJS Templates for Rails

Posted on October 7, 2006 by Geoff Lane

I recently got a free copy of RJS Templates for Rails from the Milwaukee Ruby User’s Group. O’Reilly has a program that makes books available for free to Users Groups, which is a really nice thing (of course they bank … Continue reading →

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Rails on Rails

Posted on August 9, 2006 by Geoff Lane

If Ruby on Rails is all about optimizing the development of web applications, then what would happen if you optimized Rails? Well, it would get streamlined. Streamlined is a generator for Rails that can be used to easily create sites … Continue reading →

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