Ops
Server management, deployment, infrastructure, and keeping things running in production.
Importing Heroku PostgreSQL to localhost
Importing a Heroku PostgreSQL database to your local machine, quickly and easily.
Imagemagick On Heroku-16
I recently encountered some strange memory issues after upgrading to Heroku-16. I was a little surprised at what I found regarding Imagemagick on Heroku.
Enable Secure Admin for Wordpress
Secure your Wordpress administration area using a self-signed certificate and Nginx webserver.
Monitoring Thin using God, with Google Apps Notifications
A complete God config for monitoring Thin processes with email alerts via Google Apps SMTP
Installing aspell and raspell for Ultrasphinx
Resolving Ultrasphinx spell-checking warnings by installing aspell and its Ruby interface
Error after upgrading SliceHost
Fixing the INLINEDIR/HOME TemplateError that appears after a SliceHost upgrade
Quick Tip: Setting an SPF record
Adding a DNS TXT record to stop Google Apps from rejecting your Rails app's outgoing email
Quick Tip: Setting time zone on Ubuntu Hardy
A one-command way to configure the time zone on your Ubuntu server
Nginx 405 Not Allowed Error
How page caching with nginx causes 405 errors on POST requests, and how to fix it
Quick Tip: SSH Backspace
Fixing the broken backspace key when using SSH from Mac Terminal
Quick Tip: Capistrano SSH Ports
How to configure Capistrano to connect on a custom SSH port
Quick Tip: SSH Config
Create short hostname aliases in ~/.ssh/config to simplify SSH connections
Gravatar Problems
Debugging and fixing the Mephisto Gravatar caching plugin for production use
Tuning a Pack of Mongrels
How to benchmark and determine the right number of Mongrel instances for your Rails app
Exploring Mongrel... Finally
A getting-started guide to Mongrel and Mongrel Cluster for serving Ruby on Rails applications