Author Archives: Sam Pikesley

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Building a Chef server from scratch

As I explained to my non-techie brother-in-law when he asked how I’d spent my weekend: “We have a task that requires a car. The car we have now is serviceable, but it creaks a bit, and if any bits of … Continue reading

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Ruby 1.9.2, Rails 3.x and Passenger with Chef

We’re migrating some of our apps to Ruby 1.9.2 and Rails 3.1.3. On Lucid, there are debs for Ruby 1.9.1 and a rather generic-looking Rails, but we really need finer-grained control of versions. I attempted to build our own custom … Continue reading

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AMEE Platform Update

Yesterday, AMEE deployed an updated version of AMEEconnect to the live AMEE platform. The main changes in this release of the AMEE platform are: Content management updates required for new content currently being developed by our Science Team; A bug … Continue reading

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