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18 May 2008

Juan Lupión wrote in to inform me that he’s also translating my Living on the Edge (of Rails) series of blog posts to Español. Thanks Juan!

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Living on the edge (of Rails) #21

In: Edge Rails|Open Source|Ruby|Ruby on Rails

18 May 2008

It’s another slow week (just 2 changes of note imho) after the release of the 1st Release Candidate (RC1) of Rails 2.1. Follow that link for installation instructions – though if you’re reading this blog post you probably don’t care! (because you’re, you know, “living on the edge”). Cheesiness aside, be sure to report any [...]

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Deploying with Capistrano via a gateway – some notes

In: Ruby|Ruby on Rails

15 May 2008

Some notes on setting up a gateway server for deploying via Capistrano that I couldn’t find at the source. You can specify the user you want to use to login to your gateway server like so: set :gateway, ‘deploy@deploy.example.com’. This logs in to your gateway server as the “deploy” user. You can specify an alternate [...]

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Living on the edge (of Rails) #19 – change_table for migrations and more

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4 May 2008

This week’s report covers changes from 29 April 2008 to 4th May 2008 (the day the corresponding Rails Envy podcast was recorded). change_table for ActiveRecord migrations Thanks to Jeff Dean, who also blogged about the new change_table feature in ActiveRecord migrations, you can now change a table with a block like so: change_table :videos do [...]