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 out of the box, Moonshine comes with recipes for the same Ubuntu/Ruby Enterprise Edition/Apache/Passenger/MySQL stack that’s [...]

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, we could not travel to Japan to receive the award in person, but I was able [...]

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 me than for you, but maybe you’ll get something out of it.
Anyway, so I’m once [...]

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.  I’m relatively verbose, so this looks like it will be long enough to break into [...]