Getting started with Chef can seem overwhelming. If you already use Capistrano for deployment, how can that fit into a new workflow that includes Chef? Don’t yet automate...
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I’m looking forward to a really great RailsConf… I’m very excited to see some practical talks lined up for this year’s RailsConf. As SmartLogic’s Director of Development Operations,...
All our servers give us valuable information in their logs. I’ve really enjoyed learning Logstash to dig through many different log files. Check out the slides on an...
Sometimes a little more configuration is necessary. If the name of the polymorphic relationship for a belongs_to has the same name as one of the belonging classes and...
Servers are tons of fun, so I helped set up some cool ones. This past year, we set up a new pairing server and a new continuous integration...
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I'm the Director of Development Operations at SmartLogic. I do mostly web development with Ruby on Rails.