Sending email with Rails Mailers, The Random bits...
See the rails guides and railscasts for getting started with Rails Mailers; this article includes some additional information on Rails Mailers not included in those articles.RailsCasts:...
View Articlerails :remote => true jQuery events
I constantly find myself looking these up, saving this link for future referencehttps://github.com/rails/jquery-ujs/wiki/ajaxcontains all of the rails custom jQuery events for remote forms, such as...
View ArticleRuby on Rails continuous integration (CI) with Jenkins the easy way with Chef...
Do you need a CI build setup for your Ruby on Rails app?Here are some chef / knife solo scripts that will deploy a Jenkins server to run your CI build - you could be up and running in less than 1/2 an...
View Article> random tricks you can do with Rails
There are bunch of really good nuggets in this presentation:http://www.confreaks.com/videos/889-railsconf2012-ten-things-you-didn-t-know-rails-could-do...
View ArticleHipChat is now free!
Just got an email from HipChat - now free for small groups - awesome!
View ArticleVagrantfile for setting up multiple machines with chef configuration
Example Vagrantfile below for setting up multiple virtual machines and using chef to provision themYour reader does not support javascript - please view configuration here -...
View ArticleVagrant and puppet postgres 9.2 on ubuntu
Some vagrant configuration to install postgres 9.2 using puppetsee https://gist.github.com/house9/5762219.jssee...
View ArticleWAL-e chef cookbook
Postgres has various backup and restore optionshttp://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.2/static/backup.htmlDo you have a recovery plan in case your Postgres server crashes - your daily pg_dump is probably not...
View ArticlePuppet Solo (AKA: supply_drop)
Similar to knife-solo for use with chef, supply_drop allows you to provision servers using puppet without the need for a puppet master server. It uses capistrano for executing commands on the remote...
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