Update: A much simpler way

For Little Feedback I wanted to have a blog to release new features on and post other updates to. It's a Rails application and I also wanted it to reside on the same top-level domain(www.littlefeedback.com/blog vs. blog.littlefeedback.com). There's a couple routes that come to mind for doing this.

I was getting pretty tired of constantly running vagrant provision after making changes to a pretty large playbook that I've been working on. The playbook I was working on has roles for setting up a full stack which takes a bit of time and you want to know that you can provision a server from scratch whenever you need.

Ansible is a systems automation tool, similar to Chef and Puppet but with a very different approach. Ansible doesn't by default use a client-server model or a push-pull management style, it doesn't leave any artifacts behind and doesn't need to install anything to run on the server.

It's really simple to have multiple workers going through your Delayed::Job queue and it's just as easy to start monitoring them properly with Bluepill.

I like to be able to count down to big milestones in life. Whether it's a big vacation, your birthday or the launch date for your new product.