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The Rails Hosting Survey 2009 Survey results are in!

~1 year ago by Robby Russell on Robby on Rails.
We recently announced a survey that touched on topics related to the deployment and hosting of Ruby on Rails applications. We promised to share the...

Git commit-msg for Lighthouse tickets

~1 year ago by Robby Russell on Robby on Rails.
A quick follow-up to a post from a few months ago on how our team has a naming convention for git branches when we’re working on Lighthouse tickets (read...

On shells

~1 year ago by Robby Russell on Robby on Rails.
Zsh versus Bash. Fight! ...because we need another religious war in the developer community. ;-) (skitch via Gary) ...

Show me your and I'll show you mine (terminal prompts with git branches)

~1 year ago by Robby Russell on Robby on Rails.
I asked on twitter but only got a small handful of responses. So, I’m taking it here. Show me yours and I’ll show you mine. Your terminal prompt...

Switch to Passenger (mod_rails) in development on OSX in less than 7 minutes or your money back!

~1 year ago by Robby Russell on Robby on Rails.
We recently switched our default builds of Rails Boxcar to leverage the benefits of using Passenger (mod_rails) for deployment of your Ruby on Rails applications...

Planet Argon - new site

~1 year ago by Robby Russell on Robby on Rails.
We’ll be posting some more updates on the Planet Argon blog in near future, but I wanted to invite you all to check out our new site at http://planetargon...

Rolling out new updates for Rails Boxcar

~1 year ago by Robby Russell on Robby on Rails.
Alex, Director of Deployment Services, has been hard at work helping us get our new suite of hosting plans out for Rails Boxcar, a deployment environment...

Rails Hosting Survey - 5 days left...

~1 year ago by Robby Russell on Robby on Rails.
Wow. Thanks to all of you who have helped get the word out about the Ruby on Rails Hosting 2009 Survey. We just passed 900 people and we have about five...

Links for 2009-01-19 [del.icio.us]

~1 year ago by on Robby on Rails.
Get closer to “Inbox Zero” with Gmail » VentureBeat A new feature in Gmail Labs (Google’s experimental area for its email program) gives you the...

Lessons through failure. Episode 1

~1 year ago by Robby Russell on Robby on Rails.
I fucked up this last week. On Monday, our primary contact for a large client sent over some last minute requirements and deadlines that were needed...