by jonathan

You Must Teach To Be Taught

Published February 14, 2012 in Community Code Awesome Hosting Speaking

Waaaayyy back in December, I had the pleasure of attending a code retreat. In that post, I discussed what I learned.

This month, I had the pleasure of facilitating a code retreat a few weeks ago. Thanks to Highgroove, TapJoy, FourAthens, and my co-coordinator Travis Douce, the Athens Code Retreat was a resounding success.

Also, a special shout out to our Code Retreat homies in South Africa led by Corey Haines, who handed off the baton to us late in their day but early in ours.

Read on to find out how lessons learned from facilitating compares to attending, how the general "You" actually means "I" in the blog title, and how many times it takes (me) to learn the four rules of simple design.

by cbq

Slingshot Hosting Broken

Published January 23, 2007 in Hosting Slingshot

It’s not often that we here at Highgroove Studios make mistakes (joke), but the Slingshot Hosting Application was broken for a few hours recently.

I added several new plans (based on our customer feedback), wrote tests to ensure that they worked, and then checked the code back into our repository so I could deploy:

cap deploy

All was great until one of our customers notified me of an error when trying to order one of these new plans! What I should have run was:

cap deploy_with_migrations

Easy to fix, and even easier to push out changes! Problem solved.

Not using Capistrano yet? Sign up with Slingshot and get a customized capistrano deployment recipe file and our very own slingshot.rb library that makes setting up your application a breeze.

by cbq

One-Click Rails Deployment

Published August 18, 2006 in Heartbeat Hosting Ruby on Rails Slingshot

It’s tough finding a developer who doesn’t like Ruby on Rails. However, it’s also easy finding developers who think “Rails Deployment” is the next release of a horror movie series.

We’ve developed exclusively in Rails over the past 1.5 years, and a major piece missing from our development process was a simple system for deploying, managing, and monitoring our client applications.

Enter Heartbeat and one-click Capistrano deployment. With Heartbeat, you can run any of your applications’ Capistrano recipes and Rake tasks on a remote system from a single web page.

Watch Heartbeat deploy a Rails application [MOV | 6.9 MB]

Born on RailsDay 2006, Heartbeat is helping us overcome the most difficult part of the Rails life cycle. In a couple of weeks, we hope it will do the same for you.

by derek

Simple Rails Business Hosting With Slingshot

Published June 01, 2006 in Hosting Ruby on Rails Slingshot

We love Ruby on Rails – since 2005, all of our applications have used the web framework. But we don’t enjoy deploying Rails applications.

Announcing Slingshot – simple hosting for Ruby on Rails business applications. Why is Slingshot better than traditional hosting for Rails applications?

• Slingshot is built by full-time Rails developers with dozens of applications in production. We’re intimately familiar with the framework and the ins and outs of optimizing the hosting environment.

• Stability. We offer 2 plans – basic, with a maximum of just 4 accounts per/server, and dedicated, where it’s just you! We believe you shouldn’t have to spend your time worrying how other customers are effecting the performance of your Rails applications.

• A ready-to-go deployment stack for Rails apps. We test every account with a robust Rails application using Lighttpd, MySQL, SSL, SVN, Capistrano, and ActionMailer.

• Simple, easy-to-follow help documents. System administration is the hidden cost of maintaining and deploying Rails applications. Our guides are based on our work deploying our own Rails applications.

Take a look at our plans, and feel free to contact us with any questions!