Like them or hate them, everybody agrees that Apple’s products excel in design and aesthetics. This includes Apple’s hardware, software, and even more so, Mac OS. The official operating system for Apple’s Macs has been consistently offering the most polished desktop experience for decades. On the other end of the spectrum, Linux might have multiple …
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Adding SSL to a Rails Application
Adding SSL to a new or existing Rails application isn’t really that difficult. If the website exists for a while and you want to move to https, then you must properly redirect (301) visitors to the new url. If it’s a new website, then it’s probably a good idea to use SSL from the start. (it’s …
Deploying static websites to VPS using git
git is a distributed open source version control system. If you’re not already familiar with git then read some free tutorials listed here and come back after you have some basic understanding to follow through the tutorial. Whether it’s a static website or a fun project, it’s usually a good idea to use a version …
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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 …
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Deploying Ruby on Rails Application to OpenShift PaaS
OpenShift is a Platform as a Service (PaaS) from RedHat. It’s great for deploying web applications as you can setup/scale/manage apps quickly without any hassle, just like Heroku, but the OpenShift platform is available as a free and open source software, so you’re not locked in (you can install OpenShift on your server and create …
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