Getting Started with Nokogiri
We’re decided to mix up the Engine Yard blog a little and invite some community members to contribute guest posts. This one (our first!) is from Aaron Patterson – a long-time member of the Ruby...
View ArticleA Guide to Optimistic Locking
This guest post is from community contributor and Engine Yard partner Brian Landau, of Viget Labs. Brian is a Developer at Viget Labs, where he works on web applications small and large. He works...
View ArticleUseful Rewrites for Nginx
I enjoy working in Rails but also believe in using the right tool for the job. Many developers will add redirects to a Rails app, which is great on the development box but can end up hurting when the...
View ArticleHow to use Bats to test your command line tools
Bash Automated Test System or “Bats”, written by sstephenson, is a testing framework written for and in the Bash command language. The best thing about Bats is that it can be used for much more than...
View ArticleBuilding a Vagrant Box from Start to Finish
Note: This blog was originally published on tylerbird.org earlier this year. It was recently updated for publication on the Engine Yard blog. The goal of Vagrant is to make it so simple to create a...
View ArticleFine-Tuning Memcached
Are you getting memcached interruptions in your application logs? Does memcached say its been running but your app says something else? ###Diagnosing the Problem The first step is to check memcached...
View ArticleBest Practices for Application Deployment
In this age of technology, web applications are everywhere in our lives. There are many hurdles in the application deployment process, and many steps to get a web app to the production environment and...
View ArticleBalancing Developer Productivity & Code Quality
Balancing Developer Productivity andSoftware Quality Key Insights from the World Forum Event A panel of experts gathered virtually on November 24, 2020 for the World Forum Disrupt Data Series webinar...
View ArticleEngine Yard Innovation Event
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View ArticleEngine Yard Cloud: Pricing Update
We are proud to be working with our customers while they continue to enjoy our Engine Yard products. Here are some changes we are making to Engine Yard Cloud pricing, as well as some opportunities for...
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