Eugene j3ck

Running redis using upstart on Ubuntu

I've been trying to understand how to setup systems from the ground up on Ubuntu. I just installed redis onto the box and here's how I did it and some things to look out for.

To install:

Finding a Ruby memory leak using a time analysis

When developing a program in Ruby, you may sometimes encounter a memory leak. For a while now, Ruby has a facility to gather information about what objects are laying around: ObjectSpace.

There are several approaches one can take to debug a leak. This discusses a time-based approach, where a full memory dump is generated every, say, 5 minutes, during a time that the memory leak is showing up. Afterwards, one can look at all the objects, and find out which ones are staying around, causing the

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	You can suppress this message by setting them explicitly:

	git config --global user.name "Your Name"
	git config --global user.email [email protected]

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	# read more at https://terrty.net/2014/ssl-tls-in-nginx/
	# latest version on https://gist.github.com/paskal/628882bee1948ef126dd/126e4d1daeb5244aacbbd847c5247c2e293f6adf
	# security test score: https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=terrty.net
	# your nginx version might not have all directives included, test this configuration before using in production against your nginx:
	# $ nginx -c /etc/nginx/nginx.conf -t

	server {
	# public key, contains your public key and class 1 certificate, to create:
	# (example for startssl)
	# $ (cat example.com.pem & wget -O - https://www.startssl.com/certs/class1/sha2/pem/sub.class1.server.sha2.ca.pem) \| tee -a /etc/nginx/ssl/domain.pem > /dev/null

	# This will move all images and other Dragonfly assets from your local server file system to Amazon S3.

	namespace :dragonfly do
	task :migrate_to_s3 => :environment do
	# Adjust this line to meet your needs:
	{ Product => [:image_uid, :other_uid], Page => :image_uid }.each do \|klass, col\|
	puts "Migrating #{klass.table_name}..."
	Array(col).each do \|col\|
	klass.where("#{col} != ''").find_each do \|instance\|
	begin

	# to generate your dhparam.pem file, run in the terminal
	openssl dhparam -out /etc/nginx/ssl/dhparam.pem 2048