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Asset Packer reminder

over 2 years ago by Jonathan on BlogFish - Blog.
If you ever got an error like this while testing your code in production ActionView::TemplateError (private method `chomp' called for nil:NilClass)then...

Upcoming events and talks

over 2 years ago by Jonathan on BlogFish - Blog.
The conference season is starting again for me and I wanted to note where I will be/speak during the next couple of weeks. First...

Remote cache pitfalls

over 2 years ago by Jonathan on BlogFish - Blog.
Just a small note for people using Capistrano/Webistrano and the remote_cache deployment strategy. set :deploy_via, :remote_cache The remote_cache...

Review: Design Patterns in Ruby

over 2 years ago by Jonathan on BlogFish - Blog. [Linked from: a work on process]
Design Patterns in Ruby by Russ Olsen is an introduction to Design Patterns. It covers 14 out of the 23 patterns of the...

24C3 - Ruby on Rails Security

over 2 years ago by Jonathan on BlogFish - Blog. [Linked from: Ruby Inside]
The slides and a video of my Ruby on Rails Security session are now online. The 24C3 was a lot of fun, unfortunately I couldn't spend all 4 days there...

Web 2.0 Expo Berlin

over 2 years ago by Jonathan on BlogFish - Blog.
I'm just back from today's Web 2.0 Expo sessions and I'm not sure I will attend tomorrow. Many have written about this before, but the creative, social...

Webistrano 1.2 released

over 2 years ago by Jonathan on BlogFish - Blog.
Webistrano 1.2 is out. You can get it at the Peritor Labs project page. Version 1.2 brings the following changes and enhancements: Fixes a bug in the...

EC2 gets new instance types

over 2 years ago by Jonathan on BlogFish - Blog.
Wow Amazon EC2 gets two new types of instances, large and extra large EC2 instances. Basically a large instance that has 4 times the capacity (CPU, RAM...

Capistrano and Webistrano configuration parameter overview

over 2 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 2 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...