Archive for January, 2008

Deploying a Subversion branch with Capistrano

Wednesday, January 30th, 2008

Capistrano is a tool for automating tasks via SSH on remote servers. It has many uses, I (and many others) use it to deploy their (rails) applications. The best I can tell there is no built in way to deploy a branch from your source code control system. There are a couple ways of accomplishing this. I chose passing in the branch as a parameter to the Capistrano command:

cap --set-before branch=testbranch  deploy

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Handling Session Timeouts (and other errors) using Ajax

Friday, January 11th, 2008

Ajax can bring a much more responsive and intuitive feel to web applications. However, many times developers overlook error cases when using Ajax. What if the request fails? In one particular case a user’s session may have timed out before they made an Ajax call. This post describes one such way of handling this in a somewhat friendly way.
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