Category Archives: Linux

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 →

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Cleaning Up Log Files On Linux, With Logrotate

Posted on April 28, 2011 by Derick Bailey

In my previous post, I talked about the need to run a command on a schedule with cron. I also mentioned cron creating a bunch of email and how to redirect the output to log files with the whenever gem. … Continue reading →

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The Whenever Gem: Making Cron Easy

Posted on April 27, 2011 by Derick Bailey

I recently had to learn how to use Cron to set up a scheduled task on our rails server. In spite of the ubiquity of cron, I found the documentation and even the “how to” tutorials to be horrible at … Continue reading →

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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 →

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Getting my dual display setup to work on Ubuntu 9.0.4

Posted on September 23, 2009 by Joshua Lockwood

My Macbook Pro recently died and I decided to stage a new development desktop using Ubuntu 9.0.4.  I’ve had colleages complain in the past about poor support for ATI graphics cards and was a bit concerned aboout getting the hardware … Continue reading →

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Cloning Or Converting Linux VM From VMWare Workstation To ESX Server: ETH0 Gone. ETH1 Available?

Posted on June 20, 2009 by Derick Bailey

I ran into a fun situation yesterday. I downloaded a virtual appliance for the Agilo Trac Plugin (which, if you’re a Trac user and trying to do sprints or iterations with it, you need to get this. It’s free and … Continue reading →

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A Couple of Quick Ubuntu Tips

Posted on June 14, 2009 by Scott Reynolds

I’m setting up an Ubuntu Jaunty install for a friend and trying to get it nice and usable. I’ll be messing more with Linux in the near future I think. Anyway, I ran across a couple of things that really … Continue reading →

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Current Status

Posted on February 12, 2009 by Jason Meridth

UPDATE:  I’m very eager to see where IronRuby and RSpec go for the .NET world.  Testing my C# Applications with RSpec would be awesome.  Check out the MSDN magazine article about this stuff if you haven’t already. I’m working with … Continue reading →

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Slicehost articles

Posted on February 12, 2009 by Jason Meridth

If you are Linux newbie or are still unsure about how to setup your Linux box/slice/server, take a serious look at the Slicehost Articles.  Other articles include setup of Apache, Nginx, Postfix, MySQL, Ruby on Rails, Capistrano, SSH, Self-signed certificates, … Continue reading →

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Personal CI history and Hudson CI as service on Ubuntu/Debian

Posted on January 16, 2009 by Jason Meridth

UPDATE: CruiseControl.rb does have Git support from git://github.com/benburkert/cruisecontrolrb.git. Thank you Jeremy for the heads’ up (comment below) CI == Continous Integration I personally enjoy watching a team hear the Mortal Kombat voice yell “Fatality” when a build fails and see … Continue reading →

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