Archive for July, 2007

God is a new process monitoring Ruby framework with a rather apt name (no, it’s not that God). The config files looks something like that: God.meddle do |god| god.watch do |w| … end end Interesting code to write. And feels safe too to have God watching over your mongrels. Oh and you can use it [...]

I’ve never actually explored log rotation tools in Linux and merely knew of the existence of logrotate and left it at that until log sizes really became a problem. Turns out logrotate is amazingly easy to configure, and thanks to this Logrotate and Mongrel blog post by Corey Donohoe I have it setup for my [...]

Update: Edge Rails now does whatever Jsonifier does (and more). Check out my blog post on JSON serialization maturity in edge Rails. This means that this plugin is virtually obsolete if you’re using edge Rails. If you’ve tried to output JSON from your Rails applications before, you’d probably have noticed how inadequate it all seems. [...]

Season 2 of The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzimiya was announced in the August 2007 edition of NewType Japan – check out the scans. The announcement isn’t official, but there’ll be one on the 7th – that’s 7/7/2007!

Not too long ago a couple of the Ubuntu Dapper Drake (6.06 LTS) VPSs we use abruptly became inaccessible. These VPSs were NIS clients that suddenly could no longer connect to the NIS master. Great. And as far as I could tell I didn’t do anything to those servers. I even managed to replicate the [...]