Category Archives: Deployment

ASP.Net Web Config Transform Console Utility released on nuget

Posted on January 20, 2013 by Eric Hexter

Overview ASP.Net Web.config transformations are a great way to manage configuration differences between environments. You can easily change a database connection string or change the compilation model for asp.net.  Here is a link to the syntax documentation on msdn. The … Continue reading →

Also posted in Ruby | 8 Comments

Own Your Work

Posted on December 14, 2012 by Chris Missal

This post is mostly here to share a link. Jeremy Miller posted ‘“Code Complete” is a polite fiction, “Done, done, done” is the hard truth‘. Before clicking through I thought I was going to disagree. After reading through, I agree … Continue reading →

Also posted in .NET, Analysis and Design, AntiPatterns, C#, Model-View-Controller, Rails, Ruby, Security | 41 Comments

Build Monitoring in the cloud

Posted on October 21, 2012 by Eric Hexter

I have been using a number of services in the cloud lately, AppHarbor, Azure Websites, MyGet, Code Betters Team City OSS Continuous Integration server. While these services are making deploying websites and nuget packages easier then ever.  I do not … Continue reading →

Also posted in Branch-Per-Feature, Git, Source Control, Subversion | 10 Comments

Automating Docco Generation And Deployment To Heroku And Github

Posted on December 26, 2011 by Derick Bailey

I got tired of manually typing “git push origin master” and “git push heroku master” to push changes in my BBCloneMail app up to Github and then deploy to Heroku. So I automated that with a rake task. Then I … Continue reading →

Also posted in Command Line, Git, Rake | Leave a comment

Keep Your Demo Data Separate From Your Seed Data

Posted on May 9, 2011 by Derick Bailey

File this under the “duh…” category… I don’t know why this wasn’t obvious. Joey and I have been working on our rather large app for a while now, with a bunch of demo accounts and data added with our seed … Continue reading →

Also posted in Data Access, Model-View-Controller, Rails, Ruby | 1 Comment

Deploying A Thor Application With Vlad, From Github, Run As A Cron Job

Posted on May 3, 2011 by Derick Bailey

The previous 4 blog posts, in combination with a few others, have basically been a series of posts all leading up to this one. If you read them all in the right order (and possibly a few of the links … Continue reading →

Also posted in Bundler, Command Line, Linux, Rake, Ruby, Thor, Vlad | Leave a comment

Solving Some SSH Issues For Deploying Rails Apps

Posted on April 7, 2011 by Derick Bailey

So you think “The Rails Life” is all unicorns, rainbows and glitter? Yeah. Guess again. Right now it feels more like a glitter cannon shredding a unicorn into a rainbow colored bloody pulp… Joey and I are deploying our rails … Continue reading →

Also posted in Command Line, Git, Linux, OSX, Rails, Rake, Ruby, Vlad | 3 Comments

Using AppHarbor for Continuous Integration

Posted on March 12, 2011 by Chris Missal

I thought it would be interesting to use AppHarbor as a quick way to get some code with tests under a continuous integration environment. Along with this, if I could also use the AppHarbor deployed web site to serve that … Continue reading →

Also posted in .NET, AppController, C#, Presentations, Principles and Patterns, Workflow | 3 Comments

Vlad, RVM and Bundler sittin’ in a tree

Posted on September 17, 2010 by Joey Beninghove

(Thanks to Chad for nudging me to write this post :) Up until now, my only experience with deploying Rails or any other Ruby-based web application has been to use the “standard” Capistrano.  For the main Rails 3 application I’ve … Continue reading →

Also posted in .NET, Model-View-Controller, Productivity, Quality, Selenium, Test Automation | 10 Comments

The Ruby/Rails Life – My Rails 3 Stack – Part 2

Posted on May 28, 2010 by Joey Beninghove

Rails Deployment & Testing There are some really nice tools available for deployment and testing rails. Below is a brief description of some of the ones I’ve been using with success. Capistrano I remember in the early days of my … Continue reading →

Also posted in Branch-Per-Feature, Continuous Integration, Git, Management, Principles and Patterns, Smoke Test, Source Control, Subversion, Workflow | 12 Comments