Archive for the ‘Rails’ Category

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 [...]

Getting RED 5 up and running on Ubuntu 9.04

23, Jul 2009

As part of my Rails Rumble team prep, I wanted to document the quickest way to get a Red5 Flash media server up and running on a virtual private server. The Rails Rumble project will actually be using a Linode cloud server, but since I already have a Slicehost account, I did this experimentation on [...]


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