Month: March 2010

Creating a Maven webapp from scratch

Doing a little research for an article about “log4j”:http://logging.apache.org/log4j/ configuration in Java webapps, I decided to use “Maven”:http://maven.apache.org/ as a sidekick. “I already pointed out earlier”:http://blog.nofail.de/2010/01/buildr-the-build-system-that-doesnt-suck/ that my favourite build tool is “buildr”:http://buildr.apache.org/. The reason I chose Maven is that it has “archetypes”:http://maven.apache.org/guides/introduction/introduction-to-archetypes.html and that there is a deprecated guide for using such an archetype […]

Migrating to Rails 3 for Heroku Bamboo

Recently there were some interesting “updates to the Heroku infrastructure”:http://blog.heroku.com/archives/2010/3/5/public_beta_deployment_stacks/, giving the opportunity to migrate “my personal Rails 2 website”:http://www.phoet.de/ to “Rails 3 (beta)”:http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2010/2/5/rails-3-0-beta-release/. Having an app with only a single model “for caching data”:http://blog.nofail.de/2010/02/simple-db-caching-for-heroku/, there is no worry about database migration. A nice opportunity for starting out new: rvm use 1.9.1 gem install rails […]