Make Spring & SimpleCov play nice
Want to achieve spring-ified bliss for your rails-rspec-guard setup? Read on.
Background
Spring, the app preloader that's integrated with Rails 4.1+, and SimpleCov, everyone's favorite test coverage analyzer don't seem to play nice. The symptoms are differing results when you run rspec with and without Spring. The Spring results will skip many files because of eager loading; SimpleCov doesn't . . .
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How to make Vagrant performance not suck
Vagrant is an invaluable tool for creating a standardized virtual environments that make it incredibly easy to bring on new developers. Instead of requiring users to install Postgres, Redis, Elasticsearch, etc to be able to run and develop on your app, you just give them 3 simple steps (hopefully they don't even need the first two):
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Heroku to OpsWorks
The tale of a hosting migration that shaved 40% off response times
tl;dr
We had a positive experience moving Cult Cosmetics, a rails app, from Heroku to OpsWorks, with response times reduced by ~40%. If you're thinking about making this move, DO IT, but realize that it will probably require more time & effort than you expected.
Why ditch Heroku?
I'm sure everyone has . . .
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