Dealing with memory bloat in Ruby

At Findery, we had an issue where image manipulation was failing when we ran out of memory (“Cannot allocate memory – convert”) on our web instances. In some cases, we couldn’t even run our Chef deploy in Opsworks because the servers were so out of memory. Every 2 or 3 days, we would see gradual […]

Aloha Ruby Conference

I just got back from the first Aloha Ruby Conference. I approached Ruby as another language to learn without appreciating the vibrant community. Rails core member Aaron Patterson (@tenderlove) gave the keynote on Rails 4. I’m really hoping we can move Cheqbook over to it soon. I also had the pleasure of attending with two local Maui […]