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The second 0.3.0 release candidate has been pushed to Rubygems. Please read the 0.3.0.rc1 announcement for the changes between 0.2.x and that version. What changed since 0.3.0.rc1? Safely usage is now optional, see #73 for the details. Safely is still included by default in the generated Gemfile, but to remove it you simply remove that one […]

I barely managed to get a 0.3.0 release candidate out before today’s release of the Ruby Rogues episode on daemonizing Ruby projects, which focussed a lot on daemon-kit, but also general advice for going down this path. Listen to the show if you haven’t already, it really went great. Also, big shout out to Marc [...]

I can’t tell you how much fun it is typing out a blog post again. It has been nearly two years since the last post. I hope this will be the end of the dry spell for me. Earlier this year at Rubyfuza 2013 I had the privilege to share with the audience how, at [...]

I took some time today and released three new versions of Safely in a row, 0.1.0, 0.2.0 and 0.3.0. Safely also has a nice wiki now which breaks down exactly how to use the different parts. I’m just going to (…)Read the rest of this entry »

One of the things that makes daemon-kit such a great project (at least to me), is the built-in “safely” method wraps your code in a loving embrace of error reporting comfort. You could at any point do this: safely do (…)Read the rest of this entry »

I’m proud to announce that daemon-kit has finally made it to 0.1.8.1, almost a year after the last patch release. There has been a lot of changes since the last release, mostly cleanly up and staying with the times (so to speak). Github has an awesome compare view, detailing the historic moment, and I’ll go [...]

CouchDB is hands down my favorite of the NoSQL variants and offers some pretty spectacular features, none of which I will bore you with in this post. I will however jot down how I (fairly easily) achieved pagination with couchrest & will_paginate in a fairly large Rails application recently. John P Wood discussed some issues they [...]

I’m in the very fortunate position, two actually, of being able to 1) migrate my biggest production application from MySQL to CouchDB, and 2) build a stunning new system for a multinational welfare organization on top of CouchDB. I’ve been lurking in the CouchDB world for quite some time and have spent a lot of time [...]

More as a reminder to myself for when I need this again, but I’m sure everyone needs this at least once. Having screwed up my kernel configs for my VirtualBox Gentoo image, I needed a serial console to catch the boot messages scrolling past in order to see if all the required hardware was being loaded [...]

I spent some time getting PowerDNS on Rails to run on Ruby 1.9.1, which ended up being very easy due to the small amount of plugins & gems used by the project. The only change I had to make myself was to the acts_as_audited plugin, where the one-line fix got merged upstream. The worst part of [...]