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I wrote a blog post in my other personal blog about how to create a machine that will manage it’s own lifecycle. I work a lot with background workers, and I constantly need a better way to manage my Resque worker machines, so I wrote a post about how I did it. I booted up over 50 servers with about 600 Resque workers using this method, and all with a click of a button in the UI.…

If you are running a consultancy business, or even thinking about it, this post is a must read for you. The comments are sometimes even more interesting then the post itself, some very interesting discussions were ignited by this post. Lessons Learned: The First Six Months of Running a Software Consultancy.…

We have been tweaking the GC for the Gogobot website, the affects it has are simply mind blowing. Since I am clearly not happy with the test suite time that we currently have, This seems like a nice solution and I am definitely gonna try it. RSpec speed-up (24.6%) by tweaking ruby garbage collection – Ariejan.net.…

Right now, I am working on an engine for the Gogobot application. As part of my work on the engine, I am working with the Mongoid gem and the Fabrication gem, both great gems b.t.w. The problem with Fabrication is that it wasn’t really adapted to working with Engines and it was relying a lot on Rails.root for where to locate the fabricator files. Since in an engine, the application is located in spec/dummy I needed a better way locate the fabricators.…