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Passenger Phusion/mod_rails System Tools

Sheldon Finlay — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 05:24:42 +0000

Passenger has really become the gold standard in easy deployment of Ruby on Rails apps. It’s amazing simple to configure and quite efficient. In addition to the installation tool, there are a couple small analysis/maintenance tools that are included for giving you some insight into how Passenger is running on your system. You don’t hear much talk about them and I quickly overlooked them at first.

passenger-memory-stats

This tool allows you to see a display of the real-time memory usage for Passenger and Apache.

passenger-status

This tool shows you what your current passenger stats are and what apps are currently running.

You can read more about both of these in the Passenger documention.

Scaling Rails Screencasts

Sheldon Finlay — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 18:55:43 +0000

It doesn’t matter if your web site gets 10 hits a day or 10 million hits a day. It’s a good coder who plans for future growth and anticipates how a site will scale as traffic and load increases. Gregg Pollock of Rails Envy has an excellent (free!) 5 part series up at RailsLab. Definitely worth checking out. Gregg also has a (not free) Scaling Ruby screencast on the EnvyCasts web site. I haven’t watch it, but I have watched the Advanced ActiveRecord screencast and it was both informative and entertaining. Gregg and Jason make this stuff fun! So check them out.

RailsConf 2009 – Las Vegas Baby!

Sheldon Finlay — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 03:16:31 +0000

RailsConf 2009 registration is now open. You can save a boatload on registration if you register early. And you can blow the saved money on the tables at the casinos.

RailsEnvy Podcast #064

Sheldon Finlay — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 16:46:06 +0000

This weeks RailsEnvy podcast is up this morning. Gregg and Jason bring you all the weeks news in the Ruby and Ruby on Rails world, mixed with a healthy dose of humor. Always a good listen!