Archive for September, 2006

Automating deployment

I’m a great believer in automating time consuming tasks. Since deploying my rails application (the Forlorn Hope movie site I told you about in my last post) has become increasingly painful I decided to automate it. Today I succeeded. It is not a simple task for someone who’s knowledge in Unix server administration is limited, [...]

Hail RadRails! Hail SubVersion! Hail Textdrive!

Some friends of mine got the crazy idea of making a movie of their own. Since I’m not much of a n actor I figured I’d help them by setting up a website for the movie. I picked Ruby on Rails and RadRails for the task, and TextDrive as the host.I have been meaning to [...]

Rapid Application Development with RadRails

Of all development frameworks I have tried Ruby on Rails is my favorite - by far. It is the only complete framework I know of that really help you bring Agility into your projects - big ones as well as small ones. The only weakness (yes, I consider this a weakness) has been the command [...]