RSSCoupa and Rails 2
Joy and churchbells this morning here in sunny San Mateo! David smacked down Rails 1.2.3 with a heavy hand and replaced it with the newer and shinier Rails 2.1.1. Here's what's rocking and not-so-rocking with the upgrade.
Week of Insomnia
Contrary to what you might think, I think insomnia's fantastic. It puts me in this limbo state where my mind feels like lead and I suck at almost everything. One thing I've found myself to be quite good at is catching up on Internet. There was plenty of crap, but I found a lot of good technical stuff.
Mini-apps Galore!
I'm warming up to the idea of using small webapps that do less. Instead of full blown behemoth applications that take a lot of time to learn and configure, they're more in the spirit of Unix tools or perl one-liners. Here's three that I came across that show quite a bit of promise.
Picking at Capistrano
Here is the setup I wanted with Capistrano with my housing app. I wanted to develop locally and continue using Subversion over SSH for source control. Meanwhile, Cap would run svn commands remotely with basic svnserve. My first configuration looked like this:
Tweaking Apache with Phusion Passenger
Carrying over from weekend cleanup, I started exploring the different deployment options available. Here are some bleak notes as I go along: