Gautam Rege

RPCFN#3 Short-circuit

November 20, 2009April 16, 2010 by Gautam Rege, posted in Ruby on Rails

It was great to see so many solutions for the problem statement I had set. After an initial 'shock' from all electrical engineers, the problem was clearly understood as a variant of the 'shortest path algorithm'. I hope I was able to derive a laugh from the cryptic clue 'short-circuit'. Speaking of 'derive', I did … Continue reading RPCFN#3 Short-circuit

Capistrano + Nginx + Thin deployment on Linode

November 10, 2009April 16, 2010 by Gautam Rege, posted in Ruby on Rails

This was long lost post I had written about 8 months ago (converted from wiki to HTML - so pardon typos if any) Terminologies Capistrano is a ruby gem which helps in remote deployment. As against widely known convention, Capistrano can be used for any deployment, not just a rails app! Nginx is a web-proxy … Continue reading Capistrano + Nginx + Thin deployment on Linode

Moving from backgrounDrb to DelayedJob

November 4, 2009April 28, 2010 by Gautam Rege, posted in Ruby on Rails

In my earlier post regarding DelayedJob setup I mentioned how to setup DelayedJob and create news tasks in your existing code. This post provides details of how to move from backgrounDrb to delayed_job. First of all its important to know why ? - BackgroundDrb takes in a lot of memory. It spawns worker at start-up. … Continue reading Moving from backgrounDrb to DelayedJob