Posted by Nathan Kaiser about about 1 year ago...
This year’s premier gathering of the Ruby and Rails community is set to take place in just a few days. RailsConf 2009, here we come! This year Blue Box Group is attending in full force. As a sponsor and exhibitor at the event, we’re showing our dedication to the advancement of Rails and its community. Be sure to fuel up for those exciting sessions at our breakfast on Tuesday and stop by our booth in the exhibit hall to chat and get some great swag! We’ve also got packed schedules for those hot Las Vegas nights, with plans for various meet and greets around town. Check out the people and places we’ve got planned already! If you want to add your name to the list, send us an e-mail or stop by our booth and let us know. We’d love to grab a drink and chat!
People and Places To See
- Ryan Daigle, iPhone on Rails & Y!Factoral
- Bill Lapcevic, New Relic
- Ben Curtis, Railskits
- David Demaree, Practical Creative & Code
- Paul Bibald, Pogo Linux
- The New Relic Customer Reception
- Blue Box Group Sponsored Breakfast at the Hilton
Posted by Nathan Kaiser about about 1 year ago...
When the Phusion team announced Passenger (mod_rails) last year for Apache, the Rails deployment crowd sighed a big sigh of relief. mod_rails finally provided a deployment method that was easy and more reliable than the various proxy configurations that we all had historically battled. Making the move back to Apache after dealing with the joy that was Nginx wasn’t the ideal choice, but many were willing to put up with Apache’s limitations if it meant not having to futz with mongrel_rails any more. For the last year, we’ve had customers using Passenger in production with great results, and we had switched all our internal tools to use Passenger as well.
Today, the Phusion team just announced Passenger for Nginx. You can read their blog post about this new release here. We’ve begun to implement this installation within our staging and test environments and are excited to begin migrating customers to this new platform as soon as possible. We’re also excited about the potential performance benefits and smaller RAM footprint that this installation method will provide.
Customers will now be able to get more bang for their buck, requiring less memory for their application servers, and stretching their dollars farther in this tough economic climate. This release today signals a win-win for any one deploying Rails applications in a production environment
Great job to the Passenger team! Every one owes them a drink at Rails Conf.
Blue Box Group
