Author Archives: Darian Shimy
Capistrano – Deploying a Branch
When deploying from Capistrano, I like to have the following in my ‘deploy.rb’ file: set :scm, "git" set :repository, "git@www.example.com:project.git" set :git_shallow_clone, 1 set :deploy_via, :remote_cache This allows speeds deployments by keeping a versions checked out on the server in … Continue reading
Capistrano – Email on Deployment
It’s a good practice to send a notification to certain people when a new version is deployed. This process can easily be automated in Capistrano. Add the following file to the ‘lib’ directory with the filename ‘cap_mailer.rb’: 1 2 3 … Continue reading
Sprint Burndown Chart Template
Attached is a spreadsheet template for a Sprint Burndown Chart. Features: Color coding for the time estimate (green when estimate goes down and red when it goes up) Color coding for the status (In Progress, Done, and Impediment) Pace and … Continue reading
Capistrano – Install Gems Remotely
Capistrano does not have out-of-the-box support for installing gems on your servers. You may not need this if you are packing them, but some of us would like to run the equivalent of ‘rake gems:install’. To do this in capistrano, … Continue reading
Capistrano – Adding Help to Deployments
If you don’t do something everyday, you tend to forget how to do it. The same is with the deployments. To help this, you can easily add a help section to Capistrano in your ‘config/deploy.rb’ file. Here is a sample: … Continue reading
Capistrano – Multiple Environments
Capistrano is designed to deploy your Rails application (yes it can handle others, but more work is required) to production. However, most applications need to be deployed to more than one environment. For example, we deploy to a staging environment … Continue reading
Google Wave Invite Users Still Waiting
It looks like people who were invited to Google Wave by other users (the ones that received the original invite from Google) are still waiting to get their invite. If Google sent out 100,000 invites and each user could invite … Continue reading
Twitter Moderators?
Looking at the results from a trending topic in Twitter, I saw the following: Notice the description of the results, “Google Wave was released September 30, 2009. People are discussing it and begging for beta invites.” I tried a few … Continue reading
How to get invited to Google Wave
I got some more invites, if you want one, follow me on Twitter, retweet this post, and DM me your email address. First-come, first-served. Update: 10/10 – I am out of invites. Update: 11/3 – I have 10 more invites, … Continue reading
InvalidAuthenticityToken Error in Rails
Working with a RESTful API in Rails can be a bit challenging at times. One such problem is the ActionController::InvalidAuthenticityToken error. This error is thrown when authenticity token is not present or invalid. (This is how Rails protects itself from … Continue reading
