2009 October | Sandeep Ghael

Ruby Server monitoring scripts w/ email alerts

27, Oct 2009

While working on several rails projects, I’ve found it useful to write a couple of scripts to monitor real-time server health. Basically, I’d like to automatically be notified by email if anything peculiar is occurring on the server. Two pretty obvious things to alert on are low disk space and high average load. While there [...]

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Ultimate Snow Leopard Web Development machine (part 3) – Databases

27, Oct 2009

Depending on the webapp project I’m working on, I flip back and forth between MySQL and PostgresSQL, generally using Postgres for anything that needs spatial or mapping related functionality. One pain point I encountered with Snow Leopard is getting everything compiled for true 64bit, and then getting the appropriate bindings for MySQL or Postgres to [...]