Sam Pohlenz

Rails deployment checklist

At Good Dog Design, we manage a number of servers for our clients, and are frequently adding new ones. Whilst this process should really be scripted, until we do, this checklist should help cut a lot of the time that goes into setting up a new server.

These checklists are somewhat debian specific as we mainly run debian and ubuntu servers (on Slicehost if you’re curious), but many of the points can easily be adapted for your distro of choice.

That new blog smell

After a long time away from the keyboard (so to speak), its about time I started blogging again!

Since I last blogged, I’ve completed my honours degree in Computer Science at the University of Adelaide and am now working for Good Dog Design in Mill Valley (about 15-20 minutes drive north of San Francisco).

This site is under development at the moment but it should be up and running very soon. My intentions are to blog about web dev related topics (Ruby, Javascript, etc.) and whatever else takes my fancy.

Enjoy.