Rack::Rewrite for Site Maintenance and Downtime

November 16th, 2009 by

Rack::Rewrite is a Rack middleware for defining and applying rewrite rules. Though it’s not a full replacement for Apache’s mod_rewrite, a great deal of rules I’ve previously written in Apache config files can be replaced by Rack::Rewrite. Run gem install rack-rewrite to install the gem.

I typically leverage rewrite rules to take my sites offline for maintenance. Most capistrano users will be familiar with the following Apache rewrite ruleset.
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Integrity CI on Passenger 2.2.2 with Ruby Enterprise Edition on Ubuntu 8.04

April 26th, 2009 by

I just spent a few hours trying to get this configuration sorted out, so I thought I’d share my notes. My goal was to get Integrity running on Passenger with Ruby Enterprise Edition. However, I couldn’t get the user Integrity/Apache was running as to use the proper PATH.

Whenever Integrity would try to build my project, I’d get an error about rake not being able to be found: sh: rake: not found

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