Ruby on Rails developer in Phoenix, Arizona

I did a lightning talk at MountainWest RubyConf 2007 covering how we use capistrano at Integrum to manage ssh keys for some of our Xen servers. Please note that this works for a single user sharing multiple keys. Here is how it’s done.
Create your directories:

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mkdir sshkeys
cd sshkeys
mkdir config
mkdir keys

Now the recipe.

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# config/deploy.rb
role :app, [...]

So tonight we are flying out to MountainWest RubyConf 2007, or rather trying to fly. We just got booted off the plane because of some mechanical problem and had to run to the other side of the airport, only to be told we needed to wait another 30 minutes before we could start boarding. [...]

Tomorrow night I leave for Mountain West Ruby. I can’t wait to meet some of the southwest’s greatest Ruby and Rails gurus. I’ll try not to be too much of a fanboy.

So today I attended a local event called CerealBar Phoenix. There were some great guys from the local startup / web dev community out and we had some really great, yet laid back, conversation. It’s good to see that there are some smart yet community-minded people in the Phoenix area who are willing [...]

I have used acts_as_state_machine in a few client projects and have recently run across a need on a couple of them to allow RESTful updates to change states, easy enough except I want to be able to call the appropriate events and make the proper transitions if they are possible. So I came up [...]