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Packaging For Pleasure/

by David Czarnecki, April 19th, 2010 at 04:15pm - No Comments »
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Posted in: Bending Rails, Engineering, Uncategorized

Let me be more explicit and say I’m going to be talking about Rails application packaging. Sorry, I needed a good post title for the lulz and the page views.

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As It Turns Out, Faking It Is OK/

by David Czarnecki, April 9th, 2010 at 10:32am - No Comments »
Posted in: Bending Rails, Engineering

This post is totally SFW. That’s all your going to get in this teaser.

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The Importance of Having a (Fast) Test Suite/

by David Czarnecki, April 7th, 2010 at 09:49am - No Comments »
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Speed is the name of the game. Or is it?

I was adding another project to our Continuous Integration (CI) server that runs the test suite for a project after code is checked in and started noticing the time it takes to build certain projects. A few interesting statistics for you to noodle on.

Average build time: ~32 seconds

Max build time: 1 hour and 48 minutes

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All Parsers Are Not Created Equal/

by David Czarnecki, March 30th, 2010 at 04:38pm - No Comments »
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This is a post about XML and JSON.

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vBulletin and NGINX/

by Jason LaPorte, March 11th, 2010 at 03:27pm - No Comments »
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Posted in: Engineering, Infrastructure

It’s no secret that Agorian systems folk favor NGINX for our web serving needs. We’ve written about it a lot before. Therefore, it should be no surprise that we end up making a lot of things designed to work on Apache work on NGINX. (We’ve also written about that before, come to think of it…)

One example is vBulletin. A number of Agora’s sites are powered by the forum software, which comes with rewriting rules for Apache’s mod_rewrite and IIS… but not NGINX.

So, if you’re interested in setting up vBulletin behind NGINX (and are using the advanced URL rewriting, like we are), you can find a sample configuration for doing so here.

Let us know if you have any questions!

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