Developers are people too. Believe it or not, they have needs and wants just like everyone else. Here are some, which the Operations department should be able to satisfy for a more harmonious and productive workplace. Robust development environment Just as sysadmins have those black sheep servers in the back of the server room used [...]
Capistrano – Utility for executing commands in parallel on remote machines
Capistrano deployment scripts are incredibly flexible and greatly simplify the efforts needed to run scripts on several machines simultaneously. When combined with version control, the entire team can utilize (and maintain) the same tools together.
We use Mingle for managing our agile software development process and found some repetitive tasks which we wanted to automate. As part of our deployment to the test environment, we had to manually move all “ready to deploy” stories to status “deployed on test env”. With every release to production, we had to move them [...]
