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Capistrano & EC2 Sitting in a Tree, K I S S I N G
I am using EC2 to host my soon-to-launch Quizical.net application. Its great. I use capistrano to manage these EC2 instances. With these tasks, I have automated many sets of EC2 commands into simple...
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How I Set Up My EC2 Instance for Rails & Litespeed
The below are the step by step instructions I used to set up my EC2 instance for my soon to launch rails app (Quizical.net). It uses Rails and Litespeed as the server. At the end of the install, it...
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Rails Plugin Directory Structure
While converting my s3cache to a rails plugin, I could not figure out why when I installed the plugin, the directory structure it created was: -vendor –plugins —svn —-s3cache I did not want it to...
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Rails and favicon.ico
I had never used a favicon for a site before. I just added one to my upcoming quizical.net site. I ran into one small problem that I thought I would add here. I created a 16 x 16 icon, named it...
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Changing your mysql data directory
The default specs for an EC2 instance include 165GB of local storage. That storage is split between 2 partitions. The default partition (/) is 9.85GB, with the rest in /mnt, which Amazon calls their...
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Announcing Elastic Rails
I’ve turned my capistrano/ec2 deployment recipes into a plugin. Installation is: ruby script/plugin install svn://rubyforge.org/var/svn/elasticrails I’ve also created a wiki at...
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Off to Europe
I’m traveling to Europe today for business. I’ll have spotty email access while in transit.
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New screencast up on AWS
The AWS folks posted my screencast 7 Steps to Easy Rails Deployment to their articles and tutorials section.
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Rails Cookbook
I want to give a quick plug to O’Reilly’s Rails Cookbook by Rob Orsini. A lot of the time when trying to figure out a coding problem, I rely on google searches. Some reference books are so good that if...
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A Case for EC2
When iLike’s Facebook application took off here is how they handled it: “In our first 20 hours of opening doors we had 50,000 users sign up, and it is only accelerating. (10,000 users joined in the...
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