This week I’ve been working on a client project where I needed to import a massive XML dataset into a database.  The XML was non-standard and broke its own rules in several places.  Consequently my rake task quickly become very complicated and I needed some tests to ensure I wasn’t breaking previous work.  This leads [...]

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I had a few issues getting a Capistrano file to work with Git and frozen MERB the last few days. The script below is how I finally cracked it and also has starters and stoppers for Memcached and my forked backgroundrb for MERB.

# Basic deploy details
set :application, "myapp"
set :deploy_to, "/var/www/apps/#{application}"
set :mongrel_conf, "#{deploy_to}/current/config/mongrel_cluster.yml"

# Repository details
set [...]

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I presented on MERB last weekend at Barcamp London 4 I’ve been using the technology the last two months at Bablo so it was good to share my experience with other users. With it being quite a bleeding edge technology there was just a small gang of us there but there was plenty [...]

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