Manually deploying static site updates is so 2003. And Capistrano is great, but it’s an extra step you don’t always need (and somewhat overcomplicated). If you’re using Jekyll to power your site and already have your data in Git, it’s…

We’ve been making heavy use of Chris Wanstrath’s Resque library in my latest project. Resque is a Redis-based background job system that Chris built for GitHub. It’s easy to use, especially if you’re already leveraging Redis in other parts of your infrastructure, and also has a nice Sinatra front-end…

One of the new features we’ve been working on behind the scenes at Mogotest is a Google Analytics (GA) integration. By integrating with the Web’s most popular analytics service, we can…

Last year we launched a little web service called rdoc.info for hosting public docs for Ruby libraries. It wasn’t a completely new idea, but there was nothing else out there at the time that was free and open source and worked on Github post-commit hooks, so I put something quick…

I just released a new version of Resque Mailer (1.0.0), my asynchronous email delivery extension for Resque gem src. If you’re already using it with Rails 2.x, there really aren’t any changes you need to be aware of. Go about your business. However…

NOTE: This was the original blog post announcing Mogotest (TechStars Boston 2010), a startup Kevin Menard and I co-founded to help bring automated web consistency testing and visual verification to the…