Short Rants of My Life

Video games

So Im an avid player of video games and I get all excited for these new games that come when there’s a due date it should be the date that it’s in the store not the date it’s being shipped…

A Test Post from Blog It

This is just a test to see what happens from Blog It. I should be deleting it if it happens to post correctly.

Mod_Rails Install

I had the chance to play with mod_rails this weekend and I have to say that it is pretty nice. While I’m not 100% sure I’d use it for a large site (think twitter), I will definitely start using it for some of my smaller sites to start out

If you aren’t familar with mod_rails (or Phusion Passenger) it is a module for Apache. Most of us use Apache all the time, so I’m not going to explain what that is. :P What mod_rails allows you to do, once installed and running, is create a virtual host and map it to the /public folder of your rails app. Then when the domain/URL is accessed, it will go start up a few instances of running a rails app (this is “magic”) and will show your site. If you don’t have a lot of visitors, or currently are the only one accessing the site, the first time might take a little bit (if you don’t configure anything) much like what fcgi does. It is however, faster that fcgi with comparable speeds to mongrel.

Mod_Rails currently does not work on Windows Servers (but who uses them anyways :) ) so you’ll have to make sure that you are using a linux box. There is a good amount of documentation about it, and makes deploying your apps easy.

Railscasts 100th Episode Contest!

Ryan Bates of Railscasts is happy to announce his 100th Episode Contest. Check out the details here. It’s one good way of giving back to the Rails community. I am going to be coming up with 5 tips that I’ve learned. More to come soon.