tail -f development.log

Recently I deployed a new Ruby on Rails application using nginx+passenger instead of the usual apache+passenger configuration. As a result, I couldn’t use the traditional Apache rewrite rules to display the maintenance.html page if it existed. Here are the necessary corresponding rewrite rules for nginx to achieve the same effect. if (-f $document_root/system/maintenance.html) { rewrite [...]

Version 0.8 of the BBRuby gem was released today.

How to set RAILS_ENV for phusion passenger on your Dreamhost account.

A few Rails 2.x gotchas when using the in_place_editor plugin

I ran into an interesting “issue” this past week while using the atom_feed_helper plugin for Rails. The plugin is designed to be a quick, easy-to-use way to generate ATOM feeds for your controllers. An interesting issue with the plugin is that it doesn’t allow you to manually set each ATOM entries link URL. The plugin [...]