Linux

How to Schedule a Ruby on Rails Rake Task Via Cron

Saturday, August 23rd, 2008

If you ever want to run a Rails Rake task on a schedule via cron, here is the entry you need to make in crontab:
*/5 * * * * cd /var/www/apps/rails_app/ && /usr/local/bin/rake RAILS_ENV=production rake_task:goes_here
The above snippet will run the given Rails Rake task using the production environment every 5 minutes. Note that you need [...]

Benevolent Dictators

Wednesday, August 29th, 2007

Yesterday I read a short white paper about some experiences with developing open source software for the Department of Defense (DoD.) It was a good read and relevant considering that we (Gestalt) have been pushing more and more of our software for the DoD coming out of the Joplin, MO office to the open source [...]

VirtualBox 1.4 is great (plus a fix for Vista guest networking)

Saturday, July 21st, 2007

I was sceptical that VirtualBox, an open source desktop virtualization software package, could be a viable alternative to VMWare and Parallels. I’m happy to report that my early experiences with it have been fantastic. The biggest issue I had was with my Microsoft Vista Home Premium guest OS (i.e. an OS running inside [...]