I just posted this article to my company’s blog: Analytics with Capistrano
If you want realtime stats on your web site, why not try using Capistrano to collect data and create graphs and tables? It’s pretty easy to do this, and the beauty is you don’t need to make any modifications to your application.
Guerilla Software Marketing Strategies is an article I wrote for Biznik about our experiences marketing my web applications. It covers (proven!) free techniques for marketing your software.
If you find this useful I’m thinking about following it up with an article about what didn’t work for us.
Here’s a JavaScript snippet intended for Rails that I just posted over on my company’s technical blog. It displays the error message for each field when you click on the field, making it easier to see exactly what went wrong when saving a record.
Read it here: Dynamic Rails error help
I’ve just finished writing an article about how I built a single-sign on server in Rails:
Building our centralised authentication system
It was actually an incredibly rewarding experience. I’ve written up design notes, rationale and provided tips on avoiding problems.
