Engine Yard AppCloud Experiences
I’ve recently been working for a client deploying them to the Engine Yard AppCloud, there were ups and downs. I summarise them here.
Who am I?
I’m Jamie van Dyke, a freelance Ruby developer. I've been doing web application development and infrastructure for over 6 years. I'm half British and half Dutch, I live in the North of England and I'm in my early thirties.
Recent posts
- Engine Yard AppCloud Experiences 20 July 2010
- You want to know about me? 15 April 2010
- Making your /etc/hostnames life easier 08 February 2010
- uninitialized constant Rails::Railtie 08 February 2010
- Web Development with Source Code Management Basics 30 August 2009
Let's talk about me
Where have I been, what have I been up to? I’ve been working as the Chief Techie for Venturian Media Ltd., who bought boxedup. I’ve been doing some Engine Yard cloud migrations and planning an interesting system that manages the affiliate system on the backend. This blog post is basically an answer to all the requests for a CV/resumé now that I’m available for work.
Local hostnames the easy way
The quickest and easiest way to manage to manage your local hostnames and aliases is to use the ghost RubyGem. Let me show you how.
Railties error?
If you’re like me and you skip reading a gem’s README when you install the latest, you’ll be seriously sorry when you don’t for inherited_resources because it is Rails 3 only on the main branch now.
Web Development with SCM Basics
I’m going to run through my basic solo web development pattern. How do I do BDD with Rails? This is where you’ll find out. This is part one in a series that nobody showed interest in so part two never came.