DevOps & System Admin. Deploying from Git with Capistrano With a few changes to our Capistrano configuration, we are able to deploy directly from the source code repository.
DevOps & System Admin. Standalone Puppet with Capistrano Puppet is a great way to manage server configuration, but the client/server model can be too complex. The standalone Puppet agent can be run with Capistrano.
Web Apps GET and POST Parameter Parsing in Rails Rails does a lot of magic to parse the data browsers submit into a meaningful, complex Ruby object. Here's how it does it.
Ruby PiecePipe – Pipe dreams in Ruby PiecePipe lets you break your code into meaningful steps and arrange them in a pipeline to get clearer intent and decoupling from iteration.
Web Apps Safely Parsing Parameters from a Rails Log A technique to parse the request parameters from a Rails log back into a Ruby hash.
Ruby Conject – Modern Dependency Injection in Ruby Conject is a new configurationless Dependency Injection tool for Ruby.
Web Apps These Intermittent Test Failures Will Not Stand, Man I rid a large test suite of intermittent failures. Here are some of the causes of the random failures and what I did to prevent them from failing.
Ruby on Rails Improving Unit Test Iteration Speed with Rails, Spork, and Resque Reviews a series of steps taken to make Rails tests using Spork run quickly but properly detect changes to code.
Web Apps Dynamic Rails Routes with Warden Devise and Constraints Rails recently added a constraints option to routes which allows you to dynamically define routes based on the request coming in.
Extracurricular Activities Seeing Stars – The Automated Way, Part 2 An example of automating astronomy devices using the ASCOM platform and Ruby. Addressing cross-platform ASCOM
Web Apps Given I Am Signed in Using capybara-webkit Directly authenticate a user from a Cucumber step by setting a cookie using capybara-webkit.
