require 'mwhuss' :

Nezumi - The iPhone app for Heroku

mwhuss@gmail.com (Marshall Huss) — Sat, 26 Dec 2009 18:17:00 -0800

I am proud to announce something I've been working on the past few weeks. Nezumi lets you administer your Ruby apps hosted on Heroku.

Static Sites on Heroku in Two Lines

mwhuss@gmail.com (Marshall Huss) — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 18:39:00 -0800

Sometimes you just have a static website with one or a couple pages. You might even have a shared hosting plan or even a VPS but who wants to go through the hassle of that when you could use Heroku?

Here is a simple way to host your static site and cache it on Heroku using a Rack app.

Here is how your folder should be organized:

In the config.ru file add the following:

This assumes that your template uses relative references to the images and stylesheets. Go ahead and deploy the app, if you are not sure how to deploy to Heroku check out their quickstart guide.

Now since Heroku uses a HTTP Accelerator we should take advantage of it. If you noticed in the config.ru file we set the Cache-Control header to 86400 seconds (24 hours). This tells the accelerator to go ahead and cache the page. The accelerator already caches any Rack::File for 12 hours as well meaning all your stylesheets and images will also be cached.

To confirm it's working, let's take a look at the HTTP headers returned from your site. The Age header indicated that it's being served from the HTTP cache.

And there you go, a static site being served in Heroku's cloud completely cached and for free.

HTTP Proxy Support in ActiveResource

mwhuss@gmail.com (Marshall Huss) — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 09:53:00 -0700

For those of you stuck in the corporate world who are forced behind a proxy server you have probably felt the pain from lack of proxy support in the Ruby world. There are many libraries that don't yet support proxies and until recently ActiveResource was one of them. In August the Rails community and RailsBridge hosted the first Rails BugMash where, according to the Rails Weblog, there were over 300 commits.

Luckily I was able to find some time during the event to create a patch which added proxy support to ActiveResource. Working in a corporate environment and not having baked in proxy support had caused me much pain in the past, hopefully, this patch will help others avoid those pains.

It is really easy to set the proxy for your ActiveResource model...

Scribbish

mwhuss@gmail.com (Marshall Huss) — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 18:38:00 -0700

Yea, I’m using scribbish just like everyone else on the intertubes. Big whoop, wanna fight about it?