Tag Archives: ruby

RailsMachine Releases Puppet Rails Tool

RailsMachine has announced their project Moonshine, which provides a pure Ruby interface to Puppet and is essentially custom-built to simplify Rails deployment and management: One of the things that separates Moonshine from other solutions like Chef and Sprinkle is that … Continue reading

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Puppet wins Fukuoka Ruby Award

Puppet was one of the winners of the Ruby Award handed out by the Fukuoka Prefecture in Japan.  The Climate Information Toolkit won the top prize, and Puppet was one of three to win the second tier of prize. Unfortunately, … Continue reading

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Data Lifetimes and Cache Expiration

This stuff drives me crazy.   (I can’t seem to say “drives me nuts” any more because of the damn joke.  That, and hanging out with too many Brits.)  I’m putting this post in ‘programmer therapy’ because it’s written more for … Continue reading

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A short history of Puppet, pt.1

I was asked recently for more information on Puppet’s history, and although it seems to me that I’ve talked about it plenty,  I guess I might not have written it all out, nor is it necessarily all in one place.  … Continue reading

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