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A Public “Thank You” »

Created at: 06.05.2009 09:04, source: Rails Dog, tagged: Uncategorized github phusion railsconf resource_controller

@GreggPollack put together an excellent RubyHeroes presentation before the keynote. In addition to recognizing some of the great contributions these individuals made, Gregg suggested that we all take a moment to thank at least three people whose work has made our lives that much easier. So instead of getting caught up in minor complaints about the accomodations or speeches, I decided to throw out some more positive energy.

GitHub - I’m not going to waste a lot of space talking about how much of an impact GitHub has made on the Rails community. Its not like these guys are toiling away in anonymity but their contribution has been so important that I’m just going to go on record as saying “Thanks.”
Phusion - Again, everyone knows what these guys have done for simplifying Rails deployment. Just because they get plenty of “Thank Yous” doesn’t mean I can’t throw my own two cents in here. I also had the opportunity to thank one of the Phusion guys in person at dinner this evening.
ResourceController - James Golick’s plugin finally convinced me to embrace REST. If you’re not familiar with it, its a great way to simplify the implementation of your standard RESTful controller. My controllers became way more DRY as a result. Again, saw James at dinner and shook his hand in person but it doesn’t hurt to say it here.

Honorary Mentions:

DHH and RailsCore for Rails (DUH)
Chad Fowler and company for organizing RailsConf
Gregg Pollack for the Ruby Heroes presentation, conference videos and the entertaining RailsEnvy podcasts (along with Jason Seifer.)

Rolling out new updates for Rails Boxcar »

Created at: 29.01.2009 07:30, source: Robby on Rails, tagged: Business Ruby on Rails ruby PLANET ARGON rails rubyonrails railsboxcar boxcar deployment hosting phusion ruby enterprise REE

Alex, Director of Deployment Services, has been hard at work helping us get our new suite of hosting plans out for Rails Boxcar, a deployment environment that we’ve designed to help you get your Ruby on Rails applications running as painless and quickly as possible. With this new announcement, we’ve rebuilt the Boxcar image based on the feedback of our existing customers.

Additionally, we’ve been looking over some of early results from the Ruby on Rails Hosting in 2009 Survey that we’ve been running the past few weeks, which has further boosted our confidence that we’re on the right track with this big change.

What are some of the changes?

Moving to Ruby Enterprise Edition (REE)
Moving to Passenger (mod_rails) by default
All-new pricing structure! (starting at $35/month)

This means that with a Rails Boxcar, you can now get a pre-configured deployment environment using some of the most efficient platforms for hosting your Ruby on Rails applications. (REE has shown to increase performance by 33% in some cases)

We’re really excited about this new setup and would like to invite you all to check out our new plans and send us any questions that you might have.