Holiday Projects
For some reason I find myself starting new projects on holidays. Perhaps it's mental decompression, or just an excuse to have some fun. Either way, today's holiday project was a little smaller than usual -- I'm already done!
More …Quick Tip: MongoMapper::DocumentNotFound
If you'd like to get a 404 response when you encounter a MongoMapper::DocumentNotFound error, which is the default response for ActiveRecord::RecordNotFound, simply toss this in your initializer where you set up your Mongo connection (I use config/initializers/mongo.rb):
More …Want to go to RubyConf?
If you'd like to go to RubyConf next week, but you don't have a ticket, you're in luck! Sadly, I can't go, so I have a ticket available for sale for $250. Drop me a line at ben at this domain if you're interested.
More …An EngineYard Cloud Gotcha
I'm still loving the EngineYard Cloud for my client deployments. I encountered one snag today, though, when cloning an environment for staging: Custom chef recipes do not get cloned along with the rest of the environment.
More …A Chef recipe for ProFTPD
I needed to deploy an anonymous FTP server, and of course I wanted to do it using Chef, so I went looking for a Chef recipe to install ProFTPD. Sadly, the lazyweb failed me. So, I did some actual work so the lazyweb won't fail you. :)
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