A Financial Independence Primer

This blog has a tagline Tech and Financial Independence, but so far I have only posted tech and programming-related articles. Over the next months this blog will focus on the Financial Independence part of the equation.

What is Financial Independence?

Financial independence (referred to as FI in the community) is the state in which you no longer need to work for money. That is, your current assets (money, investments, businesses, etc) are enough to sustain your cost of living until the end of your life. Continue Reading

Deploying Rails apps using Capistrano

Capistrano Logo Deploying your application to the web is not a one-time thing. There will be changes to the application code, new assets to include, database updates, and so on. Applying these changes to your web server includes a list of commands that we need to do every time we need to deploy.

Capistrano solves this problem by automating the deploy process so you can execute all of the steps in a single command. Automation prevents user errors while deploying like forgetting the precompile task when assets have changed, missing database migrations, and remembering the sequence of commands. Automation also enables your infrastructure to scale so that your code is automatically deployed to all application servers without logging in to each one to manually deploy your code. Continue Reading