intarwebz traversals

Come August, we will need to be able handle a surge in traffic to our Quest Atlantis system. Load balancer with multiple app servers mounting an NFS volume is what we have in mind. The diagram below explains it pretty clearly hopefully:

I tend to use named routes in my link_to, link_to_remote, remote_form_for etc prototype helpers, so that my action paths in the view always conform to the declarations in routes.rb and so it’s expressive.

Migrating a legacy bulletin board system based on Perl/CGI to Rails (2.2.2). I am doing this as BDD with cucumber & rspec goodness and I’ll be posting my travails on BDD pretty soon.

Since passenger has rack support and since dreamhost supports passenger, I went with a forked scanty blogging app as my du jour.

Checking out how well syntax highlighting works

Some ruby

  class Gdakram
    def self.quacks
      "#{self} quack quack"
    end
  end
  Gdakram.quacks

Some gherkin

Ohai frm sinatra! I’ll be bloggin 4 realz this time.