Gemserver as a docker image

2014-07-18 Code

I’ve posted before about how to setup a private gemserver using geminabox, but I’ve just released a docker image that does the all the job:

Speed up your bundler = personal rubygems proxy with cloudfront

2013-10-25 Code

If you think your bundle install takes too long, or have a distributed team around the globe, this may help you.

It’s possible to have a cloudfront server pointing to rubygems, and using it as your gems source server. (If you are not aware of what cloudfront is give a look at it)

On this configuration, cloudfront will fetch requests from rubygems.org, and keep them cached on the CDN, so you should expect the first bundle install to take very close time of using rubygems.org, but the second one and forward should have some performance increase. You can also manually set the cache time there.

Build your own private gem server

2013-01-08 Code

With Bundler/Gemfile it’s easy to link gems directly to it’s git repository. But some times it’s not ideal. Revisions are not versions, and comparing them is tedious.

Luckly It’s easy to setup a private gem server!

Complex constraints for rails routes

2012-09-19 Code

It’s possible to use a custom class as a constraint for your routes. For example:

Keeping track of your deploys with capistrano and git

2012-02-19 Code

I’ve created a simple capistrano task to keep track of my deploys. When I deploy to a server, it will create a git tag and push it to origin. This way I can keep track of each deploy revision.

after 'deploy:update_code', 'git:create_deploy_tag'

namespace :git
  task :create_deploy_tag do
    puts "[git] creating new deploy tag"
    tag_name = "deploy--#{Time.now.strftime("%Y-%m-%d-%H-%M-%S")}"
    `git tag -a '#{tag_name}' -m 'Deploy: #{Time.now}' origin/production && git push origin --tags`
   end
end

p.s: I use the production branch as my deploy branch. You can change it for master, or anything else.

How to Build a Mobile Rails 3.1 App

2011-09-15 Code

This is a simple guide to show how to use the Mobylette gem to make your Rails application respond to mobile and standard devices, and the jquery_mobile_rails gem to make it look awesome while doing that.

The final application’s source is available on Github. It is also running on heroku, if you want to check.

JQuery-Mobile for Rails 3.1 Gem

2011-09-14 Code

I’ve created a very simple gem that includes the jquery mobile files to Rails’ assets pipeline. To install, just add to your Gemfile:

gem 'jquery_mobile_rails'

And require the javascript/css files in your manifests:

//= require jquery.mobile.min
*= require jquery.mobile.min

That’s it. No helpers, no methods, only the files in your application assets pipeline. For more information check the github repo.

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