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Capistrano and Webistrano configuration parameter overview

over 4 years ago by Jonathan on BlogFish - Blog.
Capistrano (and thereby Webistrano) is very flexible and there are a lot of variables that can change its default behaviour. Unfortunately there is...

Amazon S3 Service Level Agreement

over 4 years ago by Jonathan on BlogFish - Blog.
Finally: Basically, we commit to 99.9% uptime, measured on a monthly basis. If an S3 call fails (by returning a ServiceUnavailable or InternalError...

Capturing Output in Capistrano

over 4 years ago by Jonathan on BlogFish - Blog.
A common question about Capistrano tasks is how to capture the output of a task. By default Capistrano will just execute your command and ignore any output...

Webistrano 1.1 released

over 4 years ago by Jonathan on BlogFish - Blog.
Webistrano 1.1 is finally out. Webistrano is a Web UI for managing Capistrano deployments. It lets you manage projects and their stages like test, production...

Name or service not known

over 4 years ago by Jonathan on BlogFish - Blog.
If you ever get such a wonderful verbose error message like this while running a Ruby script that uses sockets: /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/drb/drb.rb:837...

IE doesn't let us REST

over 4 years ago by Jonathan on BlogFish - Blog.
The reason why wrote up my rant about not getting too exited about REST is that I had some fun time paying for my blind usage of REST. While developing...

Don't get too RESTful

over 4 years ago by Jonathan on BlogFish - Blog.
REST is a nice theoretical concept and Rails is pushing hard in this direction. We all heard about RESTful Rails and map.resources but at least in my surrounding...