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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 [...]

In the spirit of nosql, today I am going to show you how to install a Rails stack on Ubuntu using Mongodb, Nginx, Passenger, Ruby 1.9 and all nicely monitored using monit, my monitoring tool of choice (why don’t I use god I hear you ask? => monit = easy maintenance and less resource heavy). [...]

Below are instructions on how to install a multi-ruby system, Ruby on Rails and everything you need to run a basic Ruby on Rails setup. Running the RVM gem (which we show how to install) allows you to easily run multiple Ruby versions and switch seamlessly between them. First steps: – Checking your Architecture Make [...]

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We have been pretty busy recently working on carbon calculation tools (using Ruby on Rails). One we have just released is a skinnable flight carbon calculator. This can easily be added to any blog or website. To embed on to your site, go to: Flight Carbon Calculator and choose a theme and comparable. I have [...]

Rubymash has been ticking along nicely as a map of freelancers and companies working with rails throughout the world. Traffic has been fairly consistent since the site was first released. However all Rubymash offered was a directory of freelancers and companies on a map. Sticking with the on-a-map idea, we have just released a jobs [...]

Since last week I have been working on upgrading a major project from Rails 2.3.5 to Rails 3.0.0.beta and also on moving other projects to use the latest version of bundler. Getting all to work was not easy, but this gave me a chance to look into the rails initialization code in detail. Based on [...]

Mustach Rails3 If your UI needs to hold state and do a little more then just returning a html string and updating a dom element(not that cool); then json is the way to go. Javascript is powerful so it can just receive the json and it can handle the state of the UI. We wanted [...]

Here’s a quick howto guide on installing Ruby 1.9.1, Rubygems 1.3.5 and dependencies on Ubuntu. The apt-sources version of Ruby is not the latest version, as such it is better to compile everything from source. First make sure your package sources are up to date and you have build essential and zlib1g-dev installed: sudo apt-get [...]

These are the slides of my presentation at LRUG lightening talks 2010. The talk was about a brief introduction of our latest application birdpie.com. Birdpie View more presentations from anupnarkhede. Here are few random snaps from the evening.