Tag Archives: rails

Avoiding that Face Palm moment with Logrotate

By Chris | Published: May 10, 2010
A runaway log file brought down on a previously built Rails app I was involved in building recently, and the solution to the problem here is so simple and easy to implement that a) I feel like a total dunce for not having this setup here in the first place b) it's almost churlish not [...]
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Frustrating and Cryptic Ruby Idioms (#1 of a series)

By Chris | Published: May 3, 2009
I keep coming across these FACRI's (Frustrating and Cryptic Ruby Idioms) in my work, so I'm jotting them here in the hope that I'll remember them better in future. Ruby idioms Ruby is a wonderful, if somewhat slow and memory hungry language, with an incredibly flexible and expressive syntax. However this flexibility leads to the [...]
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