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

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

Unitl this week we used Lighttpd and FastCGI for MeinProf.de. The setup was nearly the same as described in the must read series scaling rails (1, 2, 3, 4) from poocs.net. We used this setup from day 1 but always had some small issues with Lighttpd. Lighttpd was crashing every couple of days. Nothing dramatic, we had a script that monitored Lighttpd and restarted it if necessary. During the last