Deploying Sinatra Applications to VPS with Passenger/Nginx [Ubuntu 14.04]

Sinatra is a lightweight web development framework (a.k.a micro framework) written in Ruby. It’s a MVC framework (just like Rails) but more suitable for simple and small web projects or APIs (otherwise, you’d probably end up writing too much code, which could be done more easily in Rails, in case of complex web applications). If …

Check for open ports using this free tool : Port Checker

Few weeks ago I created a tool : port checker – that checks for open ports. It’s a simple web app built using Sinatra (a lightweight framework in ruby) and Foundation (an advanced front end framework), over a weekend. http://portchecker.co More about this little web app It simply checks for open ports on your computer (useful …