One of the tasks that I perform as a rails application developer is repeatedly setting up the following rails stack on an EC2 instance running a variant of Ubuntu: Ruby Enterprise Edition (or Ruby 1.9.2 via RVM) Apache (or Nginx)… Continue reading ‘Playing with puppet’ →

RubyMine is a great integrated development environment (IDE) for Ruby on Rails development.  Here’s ten reasons you should consider using it: Built-in debugger.  Using a debugger instead of print statements will increase your productivity dramatically. Built-in support for ERB, HAML,… Continue reading ’10 reasons you should use RubyMine for Ruby on Rails Development’ →

I started doing my Rails development on a Windows machine.  It was painful; the Rails community just doesn’t care much about Windows, so simple things like running a MySQL database were frustrating to get working.  Many other little things wouldn’t… Continue reading ‘Use Mac or Linux, not Windows, for Ruby on Rails development’ →