deployment
DNS is one of the most fundamental parts of a website. No website can run without a proper configuration on DNS. For beginners, it might be a bit difficult for them to understand and resolve DNS-related issues. This post aims to provide a bit more help for those who are
rails
Running the app in development or staging environment is a lot easier than production environment. There are so many unexpected factors which make your application unstable in production, such as a high number of concurrent users, lots of queries to database, etc. And when something go wrong on production app,
rails
Nginx is now becoming the favorable choice of many Rails developers when deploying the Rails app. It is lightweight, fast and has almost everything we need. In this post, I am going to introduce a few useful configs which I often use in Rails app. 1. Redirect www to non-www
rails
In this tutorial, I am going to show you how to setup your server to run Rails application on Nginx with Puma server, and how to deploy the app with Mina tool. 1. Installing Ruby ==== First, we need to install some dependencies for Ruby sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install
deployment
If you are a web developer, there is one thing to which you should pay attention: Static assets on your hosts should be cached by the browsers if it does not change very often. More specifically, when you request the assets (CSS + JS) for the first time, the files will
rails
I have been setting up many servers for several clients using the combination of Nginx + Passenger or Nginx + Unicorn. And one of the most common issues I see when installing and configuring Nginx is 403 Forbidden error. And in this post, I am going to point out several reasons and
deployment
AWS provides ElasticBeanstalk (EB) as a quick and easy way to deploy your RoR application through a tool called EB Command Line Tool (http://aws.amazon.com/code/6752709412171743). When using with EB Tool, you would need to have AWS Access Key ID and AWS Secret Key. These keys would