The ease of a spreadsheet. The power of a database. Constituent management for labor and community organizers.
Simple finance tracking for single practitioners, such as acupuncturists and massage therapists.
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Coming soon! An app designed for agile teams to use during retrospectives with remote team members.
NodeJS seems to be all the rage these days so I thought I'd try to test-drive an app, then deploy it on my CentOS server.
In this post I'll describe how I set the server up for a very simplistic deployment with Apache and Forever.
At Broadstripes we have a handful of gems that we use internally, but we don't want to publish them on a public site like RubyGems.org. In this post, I'll describe how I setup a simple, static gem server with basic auth and a simple capistrano recipe I added to our gems in order to publish them.
In this post I'll describe how you can get setup to develop an app backed by an Oracle database using Ruby on a Mac. Specifically I'll cover:
- How to install and configure a pre-built VM with Oracle running
- How to install the Oracle instant client on OSX Lion
- How to compile a 32-bit version of Ruby 1.9.2 w/ RVM
- How to connect your Ruby app to the Oracle database using ruby-oci8
I recently wanted to some blog comments through Akismet's spam filter. I noticed that there were a number of plugins and gems on Github, but it seemed to me that it was overkill to add a gem dependency to my app just to make a simple http call. In this post I'll describe how to interact with the Akismet api with a simple, home-rolled Ruby client.
Ruby on Rails
I've contributed several patches to Rails, including the first version of the plugin guide.
Automated git tag management for continuous integration and multi-stage deployments
An ActiveRecord-esque class that that lets you use a hash or a Yaml file as a datasource
