Using Gnome gsettings on GDM user

Arch GDM wiki suggests that if you need to change some config for gdm, that must be done on gdm user. As a first option, it’s suggested that you run...

TLS 1.1 and 1.2 support for Ruby 1.9.3

As of the begining of this year, precisely at February 23th, Ruby 1.9.3 is no longer supported: Not even for security or bug fixes. The recommendation is to upgrade to Ruby...

Running Ruby in production environments

To run Ruby in production environments, I’ll benchmark 3 of the widely used web-servers: Phusion Passenger (4.0.40) Unicorn (4.8.2) Puma (2.8.1) These benchs are just for medium throughput applications, so...

From PHP to Ruby: What is a Rack-based app?

I want to start this blog series called “From PHP to Ruby”, which are intended to be small articles on how different is one from another and such. I hope...

Apache 2.4 and PHP-FPM using mod_proxy_fcgi

Recently I needed to install the PHP environment on my production server. I wanted to try the new Apache 2.4 features, so I’m gonna bring you my experience deploying this...