I just released two Chef cookbooks: rackbox and databox to provision a full-stack, Rack-based production server, and here's a step-by-step guide on using the cookbooks with knife-solo to setup a server in 4 steps.

Here's my findings on how to auto-reload require files in Rails without restarting server. The solution is now released as require_reloader gem, with Rails 3+ support including 3.1 and 3.2. Feedbacks are welcomed.

If you seldom use Ruby percent (%) notation in daily work, here’s a quick summary of what I picked up recently. Hopefully it can make you feel more comfortable in using it.