I have to use PHP at work so I have been eyeing the CakePHP framework. Although it is nowhere near Rails in my opinion is does have some documentation and a big enough community. As my PHP development tool of choice I use Coda, from Panic. I know one of the latest features of Coda [...]

There are many tutorials out there on how to back up your Mac to Amazon S3, but over time this process has been simplified.
Requisites
Before we get started we will need a few things. Also, make sure you have your Amazon S3 access identifiers at hand. You can get those from your AWS account.

Amazon S3 account
Mac [...]

I just spent my entire morning trying to figure out how to install Tomcat on one of my servers. I needed it to demo a business intelligence application, and boy oh boy was it a pain. There is a lot of talk out there about this particular install, but nothing specifically for Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy.
What [...]

Unless you have been sleeping under a rock, which I hear is good for your health, you have come to hear about Git. Originally created by Linus Torvalds, Git is an open source version control system that has quickly gained a lot of traction with Rails developers. This could be credited to the great Github, [...]

You have surely heard of the latest thing to happen to version control. Git, written be Linux creator Linus Torvalds, is a popular version control system designed to handle very large projects with speed and efficiency. Installing Git on Mac OS X Leopard is actually pretty simple and blazingly fast. It installed so quickly I [...]

At $20 a month, Media Temple’s Grid-Service is an incredible bargain. I recently broke up with Django and decided to move my work back to Ruby on Rails. What follows is another tentative guide to installing Mephisto on Media Temple’s Grid Service.
First things first
Enable Rails container

Log in to your (mt) account center and select your [...]

Using Subversion on the Media Temple Grid-Service is much easier than it seems. Actually, it is easier than my previous host.
Setup the repository
ssh serveradmin%domain.com@domain.com **OS X
Terminalserveradmin@domain.com **Windows
cd data
mkdir svn && cd svn
svnadmin create –fs-type fsfs reponame
Initial import
On your local machine.
mkdir reponame && cd reponame
mkdir trunk
mkdir tags
mkdir branches
svn import . svn+ssh://serveradmin%domain.com@s#####.gridserver.com/home/#####/data/svn/reponame/ -m “Initial import”
Checking out
Now that [...]

What follows is a tentative guide to installing Beast, a forum application written in Ruby on Rails, on Media Temple Grid-Service.
First things first
Enable Rails container

Log in to your (mt) account center and select your primary domain.
Click into the “(gs) GridContainers” section.
Click the “manage” link for the Rails GridContainer.
Click “Enable Container”.

Note: You will need about 35 [...]

Databrowse is a Django application that basically lets you browse your data. You can define which models you want to browse and they are then exposed to Databrowse. Besides being very pretty, Databrowse has come in very handy. And since it is so easy to setup, you can see for yourself in just a few [...]