Posted by Ben Reubenstein Sun, 10 Aug 2008 16:39:00 GMT
After my initial surfing on my iPhone for Olympic medal totals, I found no immediate results for an optimized mobile experience. I wrote up a quick site after which I immediately found NBC's mobile site. Mine is super simple, and can be found at iPhone Olympic Medal Counts. CHEERS.
Posted by Ben Reubenstein Sat, 05 Apr 2008 13:18:00 GMT
After seeing the Python version, then the shell script version, I decided to write the Ruby version. You could use the class anywhere, but this example is a nice command line script you can call.
#!/usr/bin/env ruby
require 'net/http'
class WebServerInfo
def self.server_type(host)
http = Net::HTTP.new(host, 80)
resp, data = http.get('/', nil)
resp['server']
end
end
if ARGV[0].nil?
puts "usage: which_webserver DOMAIN || IP"
else
puts WebServerInfo.server_type(ARGV[0])
end
Cheers to Corey Goldberg and Brock
Posted by Ben Reubenstein Mon, 24 Dec 2007 15:11:00 GMT
This past week I needed to implement a small webservice that needed to be fast and work well under a heavy load. I had part of the service implemented in Rails, but it was not as fast as I thought it could be so I decided to check out Merb. Merb is a lightweight MVC framework much like Rails. Merb however doesn't try to put a lot of "magic" at its core, so overall less time is spent in the framework and more time is spent in your code.gem install capistranoconfig/merb.ymlYour excluded files may differ depending on the ORM you chose. I setup DataMapper for this particular application, though you could install the merb_activerecord gem and plug right into ActiveRecord.
config/database.yml
$ capify .
[add] writing `./Capfile'
[add] writing `./config/deploy.rb'
[done] capified!
set :application, "YOUR_APPLICATION_NAME"
# Set the path to your version control system (Subversion assumed)
set :repository, "http://something.com/svn/yourapplication/trunk"
# Set your SVN and SSH User
set :user, "your_ssh_user"
set :svn_user, "your_svn_user"
#Set the full path to your application on the server
set :deploy_to, "/PATH/TO/YOUR/#{application}"
#Define your servers
role :app, "your.appserver.com"
role :web, "your.webserver.com"
role :db, "your.databaseserver.com", :primary => true
desc "Link in the production extras and Migrate the Database ;)"
task :after_update_code do
run "ln -nfs #{shared_path}/config/database.yml #{release_path}/config/database.yml"
run "ln -nfs #{shared_path}/config/merb.yml #{release_path}/config/merb.yml"
run "ln -nfs #{shared_path}/log #{release_path}/log"
#if you use ActiveRecord, migrate the DB
#deploy.migrate
end
desc "Merb it up with"
deploy.task :restart do
run "cd #{current_path};./script/stop_merb"
run "cd #{current_path};env EVENT=1 merb -c 4"
# If you want to run standard mongrel use this:
# run "cd #{current_path};merb -c 4"
end
#Overwrite the default deploy.migrate as it calls:
#rake RAILS_ENV=production db:migrate
#desc "MIGRATE THE DB! ActiveRecord"
#deploy.task :migrate do
# run "cd #{release_path}; rake db:migrate MERB_ENV=production"
#end
$ cap deploy:setup
sudo gem update --system
sudo gem install merb
sudo gem install rspec
# For ActiveRecord
sudo gem install merb_activerecord
# For DataMapper
sudo gem install datamapper
sudo gem install do_mysql
# For Evented Mongrel
sudo gem install swiftiply
mkdir /YOURDEPLOYPATH/shared/config
touch /YOURDEPLOYPATH/shared/config/database.yml
touch /YOURDEPLOYPATH/shared/config/merb.yml
cap deploy
upstream YOURUPSTREAMNAME {
server 127.0.0.1:4000;
server 127.0.0.1:4001;
server 127.0.0.1:4002;
server 127.0.0.1:4003;
}
server {
listen 80;
client_max_body_size 50M;
server_name YOURSERVERNAME;
root /YOURPATH/current/public;
#Want to log? include this
#access_log /var/log/nginx/nginx.YOURAPPNAME.access.log main;
if (-f $document_root/system/maintenance.html) {
rewrite ^(.*)$ /system/maintenance.html last;
break;
}
location / {
proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
proxy_set_header Host $http_host;
proxy_redirect false;
proxy_max_temp_file_size 0;
if (-f $request_filename) {
break;
}
if (-f $request_filename/index.html) {
rewrite (.*) $1/index.html break;
}
if (-f $request_filename.html) {
rewrite (.*) $1.html break;
}
if (!-f $request_filename) {
proxy_pass http://YOURUPSTREAMNAME;
break;
}
}
error_page 500 502 503 504 /500.html;
location = /500.html {
root /YOURPATH/current/public;
}
}
Posted by Ben Reubenstein Tue, 18 Dec 2007 13:35:00 GMT
I host svn and trac projects via apache on several servers. I found the task of setting them up repetitive so I set up this little script:Posted by Ben Reubenstein Thu, 07 Jun 2007 11:33:00 GMT
When Google announced the new Google Co-op, which includes custom search engines, I did not immediately see the value. I wish I understood this services huge value sooner! I was trying to configure a reliable Apache with Mongrel Clustering setup, but was having a very tough time finding information. The Mongrel-users mailing list is hosted using Mailman, which does not have an obvious search function. When querying Google I was getting those results mixed in with the rest of the web. This is a perfect example of how a custom search engine can narrow your scope and get you the right answer fast. I setup a simple custom engine that just searched http://rubyforge.org/pipermail/mongrel-users/. I used the same query I had been using within Google, but this time found my answer almost immediately.
