Mongrel is great, but like a lot of people, strange environmental issues cause mongrel processes to SIGSEG and die (in my case it's caused by ferret. This isn't ideal on production servers, so I installed monit to restart mongrel when this happens. The only problem with monit is the duplication in the configuration file for watching mongrel clusters. Enter mongrel_monit, a ruby script to update a

On this page you will find a summary of significant changes to NetBSD. For those interested in every change to the source tree, there is no substitute for subscribing to the source-changes mailing list. Significant news related to the NetBSD Project is also included here. Changes to pkgsrc are also listed here. All of this information is also available in rss/xml format.

Coda Hale lives in Berkeley, CA, where he writes about Ruby on Rails, usability, web design and development, and the occasional bit about bicycles. Time For A Grown-Up Server: Rails, Mongrel, Apache, Capistrano and You More and more Rails developers are finding out that deploying a Rails application isn’t as simple as upload and rename; Rails apps work best when running all the time, and many Rail

Ruby on Rails Plugins Welcome to the Rails Plugin Directory, where you can find all Rails plugins you could possibly want. I'm always on the hunt for new plugins to add to the directory, so you can be lazy and just come here to find the latest and greatest contributions from the Rails community. There are RSS feeds to keep you up to date, and a recently added category if you're into the old-schoo

cryptmount - a utility for accessing Linux encrypted filesystems cryptmount is a utility for GNU/Linux operating systems which allows an ordinary user to mount an encrypted filing system without requiring superuser privileges. It can operate on LUKS volumes created by cryptsetup. The device-mapper technologies offered by the Linux kernel provide many options for creating encrypted filesystems, but

Logging in Ruby on Rails tends to be a little…verbose. For this site, my production.log had built up to 425MB in 6 months. Intending to use logrotate, I did a bit of googling and found this instead, which told me Rails could do it for me with the following code snippet: config.logger = Logger.new("#{RAILS_ROOT}/log/#{RAILS_ENV}.log", 50, 1.megabyte) However it doesn’t say where in config/environme

CautionThis article applies to Shorewall 3.0 and later. If you are running a version of Shorewall earlier than Shorewall 3.0.0 then please see the documentation for that release. Xen is a paravirtualization tool that allows you to run multiple virtual machines on one physical machine. It is available on a wide number of platforms and is included in recent SUSE™ distributions. Xen refers to the vir

How To Backup Your Mac Intelligently Last week Jon wrote about the horrifying experience everyone eventually has to deal with - data loss. His wife's hard drive failed - and without a current backup to rely upon - he went through two data recovery companies and two thousand dollars to retrieve 80 gigs of home movies, pictures, and a career's worth of graphic design files. Jon's lucky. He got his d

Selecting a database: mysql> USE database; Listing databases: mysql> SHOW DATABASES; Listing tables in a db: mysql> SHOW TABLES; Describing the format of a table: mysql> DESCRIBE table; Creating a database: mysql> CREATE DATABASE db_name; Creating a table: mysql> CREATE TABLE table_name (field1_name TYPE(SIZE), field2_name TYPE(SIZE)); Ex: mysql> CREATE TABLE pet (name VARCHAR(20), sex CHAR(1), bi