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Puppet vs. Capistrano - a short comparison

by Matthias Marschall on September 10, 2008

in Popular, Web Development & Operations

We’re currently using Capistrano not only to deploy our Ruby on Rails application, but also to setup and manage our physical and virtual (Xen based) servers. We have Capistrano recipes for adding users, installing packages like apache or mysql, configuring a Xen VM and more. Coming accross puppet, I started to wonder about the essential [...]

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The “It runs on my box” syndrome

by Matthias Marschall on June 19, 2008

in Web Development & Operations

You’ve heard it before, right? The standard answer given by so many developers when faced with a broken feature on the test server: “…but it runs on my box…”. Oh yeah, one of my favorites. You’re supposed to get this released and they can only come up with this lame excuse.
Why does every developer on [...]

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