UNIX: Rediscovering the wheel

John Leach kindly offered to do a version of this talk (previously given at Conferencia Rails 2009 and Scottish Ruby Conference 2010). Originally scheduled for our may meeting, he's going to give it this month instead. This is the abstract from his talk at Conferencia Rails:

"Those who don't understand UNIX are condemned to reinvent it, poorly."

We in the Ruby Community seem to have a habit of re-inventing things. Sometimes this is for good reason, but in some cases we don't know we're even doing it! We're wasting valuable time that could be spent learning Erlang!

UNIX-like operating systems have been around for decades and lots of problems have come and gone in that time. I'm going to talk about some of the tools available that can be used to solve common Ruby and Rails deployment and development problems.

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