Castle and Riders

Using Capistrano with DreamHost

In my last post, I took a critical look at some of the problems and limitations I discovered while setting up Capistrano 2.0 for deploying my Rails app. Now that my frustrations are fully vented, I can share the details of a setup that actually works with DreamHost.

Posted on October 5th, 2007 in the Rails category | Permalink | No Comments »


Seven Reasons I Hate Capistrano

This weekend I set up Capistrano 2.0.0 for the first time. I was very eager to try it, especially given all the glowing blog posts about it. Everyone seems to think it’s the best thing since sliced bread. Capistrano has clearly become the standard for Rails application deployment. But after two days of wrestling with deploy.rb recipes, I have a few issues to share.

Posted on September 30th, 2007 in the Rails category | Permalink | No Comments »


How To Create Optgroups in JavaScript

Using optgroups in your select menus is easy enough to do statically, but what if you want to generate optgroups with JavaScript? I looked far and wide on the InterWeb for a way to create optgroups dynamically, and while there are countless examples of JavaScript-driven select menus, I found surprisingly little about dynamically-generated optgroups.

Posted on September 22nd, 2007 in the JavaScript category | Permalink | No Comments »


Introducing GridWorlds Development

Welcome to the GridWorlds development blog. This blog has two goals…

Posted on September 15th, 2007 in the GridWorlds category | Permalink | No Comments »