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Slides from Deloying and Scaling a Rails Application with Docker

posted on March 16 2015

Rails Docker Docker Swarm Docker Compose Consul

Slides from a presentation on creating a Docker cluster presented the Norwich Ruby User Group.

Introducing Security Identifiers Gem

posted on February 11 2015

Ruby Rubygems Open Source Security Identifiers

Way back in 2013 we worked on a project that made use of various security identification codes (ISIN, CUSIP). From this project I've extracted some functionality into the Security Identifiers gem.

Using Docker and Fig for a Rails Development Environment

posted on January 09 2015

Rails Docker Development Fig

Using Docker for your development environment ensures anyone can quickly spin up the exact environment required to run your application. However managing multiple Docker containers for all the services required can quickly become tedious (especially remembering all the volumes and links that are needed for each container).

Fig provides a easy way to define and manage your containers. This post shows an example of managing a Rails development environment.

Validating XML with RSpec-XSD

posted on November 17 2014

XML Ruby RSpec Testing Open Source

Simplify validating XML with RSpec-XSD, an RSpec matcher to validate an XML document against a given schema.