Reading Time: 2 minutesHeroku Heroku provides a great infrastructure, but using their Gem often feels a little bit clunky. Especially when viewing the Heroku logs or getting into the console typing out all of the commands is time consuming. To make working working with Heroku a little easier we started to use bash aliases and functions. Simply add […]

Reading Time: 7 minutesThis is the second part of a two part series on how we set up Codeship with Heroku. Read the first part that deals with Heroku and how to use it more efficiently with Unicorn. In the first part we introduced our Unicorn setup that helps you manage several concurrent requests on one Heroku Dyno. The best […]

Reading Time: 5 minutesUpdate: After the shitstorm surrounding Heroku’s routing they have updated their docs and now regard Unicorn as their default Rails server. They now provide 2x dynos with twice the RAM so you can run bigger applications with unicorn or run more unicorn workers on one server. Last but not least New Relic updated their gem to make sure that the queuing time […]