I just wrote up a blog on how to use the excellent websocket-rails gem to build a simple Ruby 2 + Rails 4 realtime chat app and deploy it to Pogoapp. Here's a live demo.

Pogoapp recently replaced it's gitolite server and automation code with a significantly simpler, faster set of redis-backed ruby scripts. If you're trying to scale up complex multi-user git server hosting, this blog and the gist might be of assistance

Pogoapp also just today added Ruby 2.0.0 preview support, and we've written a blog explaining how to use it in your app

A blog post explaining the little CoffeeScript TCP terminal proxy app we wrote, named rama and (essentially) compatible with the heroku command line app's rendezvous client

We've posted a short video showing how easy it is to launch a simple Sinatra web app on Pogoapp with git push deployment, a Heroku-compatible REST API, and the pogo command line client

We're building a new app hosting platform with Heroku REST API/buildpack/Procfile/S3 compatibility, running on dedicated servers. This blog post is as an introduction to what our architecture looks like and why. We're looking for a handful of trial users to start kicking the tires and giving us feedback.

I wrote a little blog tutorial on how to create an rbenv hook to auto-load a .powenv (or whatever) file before exec'ing a ruby command through the shell. rbenv is cool

I wrote up a blog benchmarking Rails boot time across a few of our apps in ruby 1.9.2 vs. patched 1.9.2 vs 1.9.3 preview1. Anyone else using one of the various require fixes out there?

I wrote a blog with some instructions and a stackscript for getting an Ubuntu 11.04 linode booted up with rbenv and swapping out the linode kernel for the stock Ubuntu one so the VM can support LXC containers

We've switched our website & blog over to the cool new Mongo-backed, multi-site Locomotive CMS. It's got some pretty cool features not available in other apps, so check it out

Also as part of CHS11, we wrote a barely-working macruby app that runs in the status bar and uses CoreLocation. The code is terrible but it'll compile, which is something

We wrote a little ruby IVR app at Culture Hack Scotland. call it on skype / source on github

We show how to use thor, pow, nginx and a reverse SSH tunnel to simplify the process of showing a public demo of any app on your local machine

A slightly different approach at installing edge rails, because some people at RI were having problems. This should be an easy one-shot way to get a new RVM sandboxed edge app

We've just released a little Rack middleware called Grifizoid for serving static files from MongoDB GridFS. Enjoy

I wrote a blog post on how to combine rack middleware and a popular javascript library to easily handle drag & drop multi-file uploads in a Rails app