Monitoring Delayed Job with Bluepill and Capistrano

So, you already did the right choice of using Delayed Job for your background processing, great! But, how are you going to be certain that your background processing will still be happening while you are sleeping? And if your Delayed Job process goes down, are you going to wake up in the dawn e restart … »

Monitorando o Delayed Job com Bluepill e Capistrano

Então você já fez a feliz escolha de tratar seu processamento em background com Delayed Job, ótimo! Mas como ter certeza que esse processamento vai continuar acontecendo enquanto você estiver dormindo? E se o o processo do Delayed Job cair, você vai acordar de madrugada e levantá-lo na mão? Eu não faria isso, gosto do … »

Rails 3 I18n changes

As we already know, in Rails 3 all dependencies will be bundled. This means you will be able to use latest I18n version which includes several improvements by itself. Besides that, a couple things changed on Rails 3 I18n, some features were added and others were deprecated. This post is a quick walkthrough it: 1) … »

Discovering Rails 3 generators

This weekend during Rails Bugmash I stumbled across some nice posts about Rails 3 generators which motivated me to share them and add some comments! First, David Trasbo wrote a nice guide about how to make your first Rails 3 generator, it covers up all the basic steps including setting it up in a gem. … »

O que aprendemos em 2009 – The Plataforma Way

2009 se foi. Foram 10 meses muito agitados para nós. Aprendizado intenso, momentos de cansaço físico, desafios constantes e dúvidas sobre o futuro são fatores que estão presentes no nosso dia-a-dia. Antes de iniciar as operações da Plataforma Tecnologia (fev/09), nos questionávamos duas perguntas que davam frio na barriga: Como fazer uma empresa de serviços … »

How everyone is inserting technical debt in their applications

A couple days ago DHH twitted that they were getting Basecamp running on Ruby on Rails 3.0. This means Basecamp migrated from the first Rails release up to the edge one. So how come people say so frequently how hard is to update their applications from Rails 2.1 to Rails 2.2? And the answer is … »