Jason Madigan

Lightweight, fast Rails stack - Thin & nginx

Since purchasing a slice of heaven a few days ago, I’ve setup a very lightweight Rails stack consisting of Thin & nginx for my Rails needs. Since I went for a slice with just 256MB of RAM, memory consumption becomes a pretty serious issue. nginx has been around for quite a while now, and has [...]

Runt - SVG & Rails

While developing Runt over the past few months it became obvious mid-way through development that the integration of graphing was somewhat of an afterthought. That's okay though because we're agile, right? Graphing SNMP data in Rails applications (or any other application for that matter) is difficult for a number of reasons: