Archives for September, 2010.

Installing Rails on a fresh Linode Ubuntu Install

We have been playing around with Linode recently and have been moving most of our sites that are hosted on VPS across to Linode. So I thought I would write a quick getting started tutorial on how to install a rails stack on Linode. Login as root, and add a new user (deploy) ssh root@my_linode_ip [...]

Creating a sitemap for Rails and Heroku

Most sitemap posts seem to explain the best way of doing things as running a background job that then writes / updates the sitemap.xml file. This is a bit of a problem in a predominantly read-only environment such as heroku. To solve this, we wrote a quick controller action to create the sitemap on the [...]