Hi, I'm Torsten. I am the founder of Foodlane, Company Signal, and Exceptiontrap (acquired by Scout APM). I strive to build simple and beautiful software products that people love to use. Learn more about them here
When you look for ways to test your Ruby on Rails app that uses (wildcard) subdomains, you are usually told to use lvh.me or similar domains as your host. These services resolve all subdomains you throw at them to localhost. Problem solved, right? Well, not really …
How do I generate the private key file again? Or what is the correct chaining order? Installing, or renewing SSL certificates on the webserver has some pitfalls. And most of us don’t do it regularly, so it’s easy to forget the process.
You want a nice preview when your content is shared on Twitter, LinkedIn, and other sites? That’s a good idea, because, well, it just looks better. Let’s build a simple solution.
You just finished that new blog post or optimized your website copy. And Google should know about it. Now you can wait for Google to fetch the changes – or just ping it.
Sometimes you want to see what’s happening in your production log files right now. You can use log management tools like Loggly or Papertrail for this, but there is also an easy way to stream your log files with Capistrano.
We all love to enter the Rails console to try out some stuff. It’s just a rails c away in development. But what if you want to view or fetch some specific data on your remote production server (and you’re not on Heroku)? If you already deploy your app with Capistrano, why not use it for this task?
As I wrote in my first blog post, I had a hard time deciding how to add a blog to my app. Should I use Jekyll, another Rails blog engine, or just build a simple blog functionality myself? I already use Jekyll for my private developer blog, and I like it. But in this case I decided to write my own – and I’ll show you why and how.
Deploying your application with Heroku is already pretty awesome. You just have to push to Heroku’s master branch, and the magic happens.
When I upgraded from Rails 3 to 4, I ran into some problems which I will share here.
When I work in projects that started before Ruby 1.9, I don’t like the mix of the old hash rocket style hashes, and the new syntax.