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ZOMG I’m Famouse!!!1oneone

For real. Sorta. I gave a lightning talk about God+Merb at this year’s Ruby Hoedown in Huntsville, Alabama. It’s not much, but here is my 5 min. rundown of what I’ve done to god, and how I use it. It’s available here from the confreaks website.

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more Merb & God

Working on a web ui for God some more. I’ve moved the logs to their own pages. I also got some basic system information up on the index page, like uptime, os version, and disk usage. There is still no authorization, but i’ll work on that sometime soon. If anyone wants to help, i’d be more than grateful.

God + Merb = Awesome!

I hacked togeather a simple webUI for god this weekend, and it’s now in alpha stages. It will start, stop, Monitor, Unmonitor, and Restart services, and also give logs for the past 5 min. It’s powerd by merb, and is actually my first foray into merb, having used rails for the past 2 years. Read more »

Creating a Remote Git Repository

Having a local Git repository is great, it lets you keep versioned copies of your work, and doesn’t take up much space. But if you need to share your repository with someone else, such as with a development environment, you quickly find you need a simple way of keeping the repository up to date, and allowing access to other people. Email and thumb drives are soon not enough to keep up with the pace of development. What you need is a server to keep all the information in.

I’m going to show you how we have things setup, and hopefully guide you in your quest to have a remote repository that works for you.

Assumptions:

First off I’m going to assume you have a server setup somewhere, and that you have ssh and root(or sudo) access. This is written for FreeBSD, but the steps should be similar enough on pretty much any Linux or BSD distro.
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