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How I decreased my Rails startup time by 60%

Today I decreased my Ruby On Rails boot time by ~60%, Yay! (All credit goes to funny-falcon for the patches and Burke who posted the Gist) I removed 26 gems from my Gemfile and I noticed a boost with a couple of seconds. From that I begun searching for large Gemfile problems and I stumbled [...]

Change PATH environment with Rails and Capistrano

Note to self. When deploying my RubyOnRails applications with Capistrano and I get errors like this one 12345servers: ["app.myserver.com"] [app.myserver.com] executing command ** [out :: app.myserver.com] sh: bundle: command not found command finished in 31ms servers: ["app.myserver.com"] [app.myserver.com] executing command ** [out :: app.myserver.com] sh: bundle: command not found command finished in 31ms [...]

Batch rename files with spaces in linux/bash

A reminder for myself how to batch rename files with spaces in bash. This is how i rename files with space to have underscores instead. DO NOT blame me if this commando erases all your files I found several examples how to do this when googling but they all failed. Some of them did nothing [...]

Nokogiri quote

I just have to share this funny quote from the nokogiri website (for those of you that does not know 鋸 it’s a reeeeeeeeaaally good and fast HTML, XML, SAX, and Reader parser). XML is like violence – if it doesn’t solve your problems, you are not using enough of it. – http://nokogiri.org/ Cheers!

Deploying a Sinatra app with Apache and Phusion Passenger a.k.a. mod_rack

My Sinatra + Apache + Passenger setup did not just run Deploying a simple Sinatra rack application under Apache and Phusion Passenger turned out not work out of the box for me. I already had a virtual host so I decided to deploy with passengers sub URI (sub URI documentation). To make this work you’ll [...]

Grouping a timestamp field by date in Ruby On Rails / PostgreSQL

Recently I’ve been working a lot with dates and tonight I had a hard time finding information about how to group a model by date when the model only have a timestamp column. Lets pretend we have a user model with a created_at attribute which is stored as a timestamp. If we want to plot [...]

5-10 second delay when launching Terminal.app in OSX

A couple of days ago my Terminal.app (console) got a really annoying feature. When launching the console or when I created a new tab it got stuck for about 5-10 seconds before I got my prompt. If you are like me and are spending most of your time in Terminal.app you understand how annoying this [...]

Running couchdb under an unprivileged user account.

When helping a friend last night with couchdb a got stuck when trying to start it as an unprivileged user. The error messages you get from couchdb is far from easy to understand. This is my way of solving it. 1234567$ couchdb kernel-poll not supported; "K" parameter ignored Apache CouchDB 0.9.0 (LogLevel=info) is starting. {"init [...]

I have this great device but I cannot use it, thanks to TeliaSonera!

The iPhone is a really great device. It lacks a few basic features that I misses from ericsson or nokia but overall it’s a really great device. Where it really kicks ass is when you are out of town and need to find a location or restaurant. This have been great when I am still [...]

Internet is a virtual share-your-stuff-machine.

I do not usually blog about this tuff. Hell I do not blog much at all But I think this was pretty cool. Internet is a virtual share-your-stuff-machine. On YouTube you share you creativity. On Facebook you share you life. On Second Life you share your dreams. On Wikipedia you share you knowledge. On Ebay [...]