Category Archives: Ruby on Rails

Load Balancing

oops

I’ll get the embarrassing part out of the way first. So… Ravelry had over an hour’s worth of hiccups and short periods of downtime yesterday. The cause of the problem was just a stupid full disk - I missed rotating a log, I was too lazy to set up Nagios monitoring for […]

Running Rails

Another dry sysadmin/deployment related post. If any of you Ravelry people want to hear about something in particular, please leave a comment

A few quick notes about how I’m actually running my app:

Web server : nginx. I ran Apache for a while before I switched to nginx. Nginx uses far less resources under load […]

Why Ruby on Rails?

In this post: why Ruby? why Rails? why not? It sort of fizzles out at the end.

First - a quick definition. What is Ruby on Rails? Ruby is a programming language. Ruby on Rails is a framework for developing modern, database driven web-based apps that is written in Ruby. To grossly generalize - […]