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Dr Nic Williams
drnicwilliams.com · Personal blog · on HN since 2007
Dr Nic Williams, a Ruby and Rails developer, writes about Rails tooling, gems, git, development environments, and deployment.
What HN saysHN commenters link him for practical tools such as App Scrolls for generating Rails apps and a post explaining BOSH for large-scale deployments.
23HN people shared it
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Most-shared posts
- 1Zero Sign On - 1 better or Infinitely better than Single Sign On?2 people · 26 points · first shared 2008 · 4 comments on HN
- 2Reliable & Repeatable Development Environments with Continuous Integration2 people · 5 points · first shared 2010 · discussion on HN
- 3Hacking someone’s gem with github and gemcutter2 people · 5 points · first shared 2009 · discussion on HN
- 4Dr Nic's Instant new Rails applications with the App Scrolls2 people · 2 points · first shared 2012 · discussion on HN
- 5Gitjour: share git repositories with bonjour (zeroconf)1 people · 24 points · first shared 2008 · discussion on HN
- 6Install any HTML theme/template into your Rails app1 people · 16 points · first shared 2009 · 1 comments on HN
- 7Closing in on The Dream: “one-click-to-deploy Rails apps”1 people · 8 points · first shared 2009 · discussion on HN
- 8Dr. Nic, Rails luminary, moves from Australia to SF to join Engine Yard1 people · 8 points · first shared 2010 · 1 comments on HN
- 9First look at Rails 3.0.pre1 people · 5 points · first shared 2009 · discussion on HN
- 10One App, One User Account and Multiple OpenIDs1 people · 5 points · first shared 2007 · discussion on HN
- 11Unit Testing iPhone apps with Ruby: rbiphonetest1 people · 4 points · first shared 2008 · discussion on HN
- 12How to stop killing people with your public speeches1 people · 3 points · first shared 2012 · 1 comments on HN
- 138 steps for fixing other people's code1 people · 2 points · first shared 2008 · discussion on HN
- 14ChocTop - packaging and deployment of Cocoa applications1 people · 1 points · first shared 2009 · discussion on HN
- 15Using Git within a project (forking around)1 people · 1 points · first shared 2008 · discussion on HN
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helloiamaperson · 2015-04-16
Take a look at bosh: http://drnicwilliams.com/2012/05/15/bosh-what-how-when/ . It has its own problems, but it does exactly what you want, and is used for large scale deployments.
rmoriz · 2012-06-16
also there is another very nice solution for creating rails apps (using templates, too):
http://appscrolls.org/
http://drnicwilliams.com/2012/04/10/instant-new-rails-applications-wit…
zedshaw · 2011-03-08
> Also: FWIW, I never notice folks' names on github. The important thing for me is that the code is right there front and center. If I want to download it, I click the clipboard button and then go clone it. Boom.
Yeah, I think "BOOM!" is right. If you can't see the flaw in stuff like this:
http://drnicwilliams.com/2009/11/04/hacking-someones-gem-with-github-a…
http://groups.google.com/group/gemcutter/browse_thread/thread/80fd3830…
Then you got no business being a sysadmin and working this way.
mixmax · 2008-02-22
I can think of several reasons it won't work. Off the top of my head:
1) There are just so many shitty links and LOLcats out there that the chances a shitty submission to YC is also on the frontpage of reddit is very small
2) The problem with reddit is that the signal/noise ratio is so high, not that there are no good submissions that make it to the frontpage. For instance this http://drnicwilliams.com/2008/02/22/zero-sign-on-with-client-certifica… is currently on the frontpage of both reddit and YC.
There are much better ways of doing it than this proposal. For instance use a bayesian filter to measure the submitted site up against previous submissions with high ratings.