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Want new rubies on your webbies?

The other night, my usually painless  Webbynode deployment routine was shaken up when I deployed two projects that used the latest version of  Mongoid. It turns out that  Mongoid dependencies starting from 3.x require you to use Ruby 1.9.3  while Webbynode only has 1.9.2 when creating a standard RAPP instance. The solution isn’t as hard as [...]

FireflyAPI, An SMS API for developers by developers

FireflyAPI is a system that allows users to send SMS messages via POST request through its API, allowing developers to notify their users via SMS. Firefly API is able to send SMS to all networks here in the Philippines. It is proudly crafted by our awesome developers Jason Torres and Victor Solis, together with our [...]

Installing the latest MongoDB package on Webbynode

Webbynode makes it easy to install MongoDB on your webby via the webbynode command line utility. The only drawback is that the version installed by the native recipe is 1.6.5. This posed a problem when we started using Alex Reisner’s Geocoder gem with MongoDB’s geospatial methods, particularly $nearSphere. To make a long story short, the 1.6.5 and [...]