Writings on various topics (mostly technical) from Oliver Hookins and Angela Collins. We currently reside in Sydney after almost a decade in Berlin, have three kids, and have far too little time to really justify having a blog.
So I was going to post a comment on the original blog post which I linked to from here but Facebook connect was broken and I don't feel like setting up yet another account </1stworldproblems>... but there was a slight development.
I attempted to use the same methodology we had already followed with the first app, to another app so that this one was also packaged using Bundler and RPM. Needing to confirm that all was well before I committed the changes I did some testing in a CentOS virtual machine in Vagrant. To be expected, with a deployment bundle of a decent few gems the package size…
Recently I was working with one of our valued Thoughtworkers on an application we were trying to not only develop in a sane way, but package and deploy to production with just as much sanity. The status quo seems to favour bundler on the development side, but RPMs on the production side (if you judge these decisions based on what developers and ops folk prefer, generally).
After a reasonable amount of WTFing, we actually managed to get it working reasonably well. If you have Ruby apps with gem dependencies and want to develop and push to production with equal ease I suggest you read the blog post on the subject by Philip Potter here: …
I have a Zotac ZBox which I use an my HTPC, and generally it works pretty well. One thing that is slightly troublesome is the HDMI audio, which seems to rely on having the ALSA backports modules package installed in order for it to work. Remembering this is key, though, since when the package is installed it does not automatically get updated when you upgrade the kernel package.
Most packaging…