https://rietta.com/tags/tutorial/ Recent content in Tutorial on Rietta Cybersecurity Hugo -- gohugo.io en-us 1999-2026 Rietta Inc. All Rights Reserved. https://rietta.com/blog/setting-up-ubuntu-for-rails-development_24/ Wed, 24 Oct 2012 00:00:00 +0000 https://rietta.com/blog/setting-up-ubuntu-for-rails-development_24/ And here is the second video in the series on setting up Ubuntu Linux for Ruby on Rails development: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_0dTp0Fzoo&feature=plcp https://rietta.com/blog/setting-up-ubuntu-for-rails-development/ Sun, 21 Oct 2012 00:00:00 +0000 https://rietta.com/blog/setting-up-ubuntu-for-rails-development/ Ruby on Rails is a really great platform for developing and releasing web applications.  At my company, our developers are pretty evenly split between using Mac OS X and Ubuntu Linux desktops as their primary development systems. Setting up Ubuntu to develop in Ruby on Rails is pretty simple, but there are a few gotchas. To help you learn how to set this up, I have recorded a couple of real-time videos of me configuring from scratch Ubuntu Linux in a virtual machine. https://rietta.com/blog/wget-to-keep-new-rails-site-in-memory/ Tue, 10 Jul 2012 00:00:00 +0000 https://rietta.com/blog/wget-to-keep-new-rails-site-in-memory/ A Ruby on Rails web application can be really fast in production. However, for a site that receives less traffic the application can be very, very slow on the first request after it has gone dormant. One way to make sure that your site is always fast and never goes dormant is to setup an automatic process to periodically fetches the home page. On an Linux, FreeBSD, or Mac OS X system it is easy to setup an automatic fetch using cron and wget.