Offers a service to deploy, manage support, monitor and scale rails applications.
Link: railsmachine.com
Posted on 4/8/2014 by Kevin Lawver We read the Heartbleed vulnerability announcement last night and were as shocked as I'm sure you were. Thankfully, the vast majority of our customers' servers, and our sites and infrastructure, are completely unaffected by it since they're running Ub...
Rails Machine has a long history of helping companies scale their apps from a single virtual server to dozens of dedicated servers. We don't talk a lot about it because, well, we're nerds not marketers. We've been around since 2006 and spent a lot of time helping Rails apps of all siz...
There are several options to backup a PostgreSQL database. The standard pg_dump command ships with PostgreSQL and is very easy to use. Another option is to create a file system level backup by directly copying the files that PostgreSQL uses to store the data in the database. It is als...
Plugger: Plugging Plugins Plucked From Rails 4 Posted on 6/19/2013 by Kevin Lawver We've known plugins were being removed in Rails 4, and I've disagreed with the decision since I first saw the deprecation warning filling my console. To me, plugins live in a place between a single file...
Passenger 4.0.1 is out and that means we need to add support to Moonshine for it! If you update Moonshine, you'll have everything you need to deploy Passenger 4.0.1 - I highly recommend it. Why? Out of band work (garbage collection)! The Phusion guys blogged about it during one of the...
I have a love/hate relationship with the asset pipeline. Ok, it's mostly hate. I applaud what it tries to do, but it takes something relatively simple - javascript and CSS - and makes it painful, mostly by making deploys take forever (even with turbo-sprockets-rails3 ). For example, I...
We recently released moonshine_mariadb , moved our own site and a very large customer's site to MariaDB’s Galera Cluster , and lived to tell the tale. In fact, we came through just fine and happier on the other side, with better failover and rid of an old piece of software that ended ...
A Web Operations View of Election Day Posted by Kevin Lawver on November 15, 2012 | 0 comments Yes, I know the election was last week, but it’s taken us that long to recover from the sheer awesomeness of how well it went for our customers. No, not the outcome of the election, but thei...
