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Increasing Ruby interpreter performance by adjusting garbage collector settings

Posted on by Ivan Kuznetsov

According to Evan Weaver from Twitter it is possible for a typical production Rails app on Ruby 1.8 to recover 20% to 40% of user CPU by simply adjusting Ruby garbage collector settings. In August I set out on a quest to verify that statement on HeiaHeia servers. Results have really exceeded my expectations. Time to execute application tests locally decreased by 46%. On production servers CPU utilisation decreased by almost 40%.

Running Rails applications using Nginx with Passenger on Ubuntu Server

Posted on by Ivan Kuznetsov

If you’re planning to run Rails applications on Nginx using Phusion Passenger, and do it on Ubuntu Linux, here’s what needs to be done.

Even though there’s Ubuntu nginx package available (which works perfectly when you’re running PHP apps using FCGI), if you want to take into use Phusion Passenger, you’ll need to recompile Nginx from sources.

Instructions below were verified on Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid Lynx) Server Edition.

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Setting up Ruby, Rails, Git and Redmine on Dreamhost

Posted on by Ivan Kuznetsov

The task is to have:
– Redmine installation on redmine.mydomain.com
– Several Git repositories on git.mydomain.com with different access rights to each one

This proved to be a non-trivial task. There is a number of tutorials on the net, but none of them described the full solution. So after getting it all to work, I decided to share all the tips and tricks. Feel free to comment, if you will find problems with the following set of instructions.
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