All magic comes with a price shapeshed.com
An opinion article on frameworks in the Ruby and Node.js communities.
shapeshed — 9 posts
Using rbenv to manage rubies shapeshed.com
How I use rbenv to manage rubies and integrate with other UNIX tools
Managing Unicorn Workers with Monit shapeshed.com
A walkthrough on how to manage Unicorn worker processes using Monit
How to start an entire development environment with a single command
Building a Rails server with Puppet shapeshed.com
A short write up of my experience learning and configuring Puppet to build and manage servers to serve Rails applications.
Building a Rails development server shapeshed.com
A walkthrough of using Nginx to serve multiple Rails apps with Thin, Unicorn or Passenger. Nginx config examples included.
This week VMWare announced Cloud Foundry, their open source PaaS offering for Ruby and node.js. Here's my take.
Vim eighteen months on shapeshed.com
An overview of my experience of switching to Vim with links to resources that helped me on the way.
Getting email through spam filters from a Rails app shapeshed.com
A write up on configuring Rails, Postfix and DNS to get email from a Rails app through the spam filters of major email providers.