Posted by theBlatherskite
Mon, 16 Apr 2007 05:16:00 GMT
I’ve been playing around with capistrano lately, and I think I’ve fallen in love. It was merely a convenience until that ill-fated deployment – that moment when, with panicked error messages scrolling across my screen and equally panicked (if less verbose) thoughts filling my head, a decisive cap rollback restored the calm.
Most recently, however, I discovered the cap disable_web and cap enable_web commands. These let you, with one command, push a helpful static ‘maintenance’ page out to the users while you do, well, maintenance. With a little customization, the page can be downright professional (at least, I like to think my implementation of it was).
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Posted in Ruby on Rails, Mini Tips | Tags capistrano, disable_web, rails, site5 | 3 comments
Posted by theBlatherskite
Wed, 25 Oct 2006 00:33:00 GMT
My pet project has recently grown to the point where I needed to shift over to a modern revision-control tool like Subversion (also known as svn – more info here).
I need to be able to access by repository from multiple computers, but access needs to be restricted and the authorization encrypted. Though the solution is simple (svn+ssh), its implementation required me to become much more familiar with various aspects of the console I hadn’t really explored.
This article assumes you have shell access on a remote server, where you intend to host your repository, and svn successfully installed. If you’ve got that, let’s right jump in!
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Posted in Ruby on Rails, Security, Servers | Tags repository, site5, ssh, subversion, svn | 7 comments | no trackbacks
Posted by theBlatherskite
Thu, 10 Aug 2006 07:39:00 GMT
Hello, world!
In celebration of finally getting
Typo installed on the
Site5 servers, my first post will be a guide to others attempting the same process. Since this is such a basic subject, I'll assume very little knowledge on your part -- if it's insultingly little, you might wanna skip this one and find another posting.
[Note: this walkthrough is specific to websites hosted by Site5. If you're trying to install Typo elsewhere,
Dev411 may be a good place to start]
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Posted in Ruby on Rails | Tags rails, server, site5, typo | no comments | no trackbacks
