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• Implement Full Text Search with Sphinx on Engine Yard Cloud

  Full text searching is a technique for searching all the words in every stored document in a database or other collection. This is done through a process of indexing the words and then searching throu...

• Use CarrierWave (and Optionally Fog) to Upload and Store Files

  CarrierWave is a Ruby gem used to upload and store files (typically images and documents) for Ruby applications. For example, you might use CarrierWave to associate and store photos with user identiti...

• Load Test Your Environment Using em-proxy

  With em-proxy, a proxy built with eventmachine, you can send some real traffic to your Engine Yard Cloud environment for load testing. This allows you to test your application’s performance prior to m...

• Set the Time Zone for an Instance

  Engine Yard Cloud instances are set up in the UTC timezone by default. Based on your location, you may want to change this so timestamps in your logs match your timezone. Note: If you have instances u...

• Set Up SSMTP for Mail Relay to AuthSMTP

  We do not provide SMTP email services from Engine Yard Cloud because the entire EC2 IP space is black-listed by many spam services. Our recommendation is to get an account with one of the following pr...

• Use Keep Files to Customize and Maintain Configurations

  A keep file gives you the flexibility to modify configuration settings in specific files within the /data and /etc directories of your EBS (Amazon Elastic Block Storage) volume. When Engine Yard’s Che...

• Customize Unicorn

  Unicorn does not employ keep files for its configuration file. This page describes how to customize Unicorn without a keep file. The process is: Create an alternate Unicorn configuration file. Start U...

• Add MIME Types to Nginx

  MIME types are used to identify the type of information that a file contains. This document shows you how to add a MIME type to your Nginx configuration. Add MIME Types The best way to add a MIME type...

• Customize Nginx

  You might need to customize the default Nginx configuration. This page describes the layout of our Nginx configuration files and lists the files that are not altered by Chef on subsequent runs. These ...

• Environment Variables and Why You Shouldn't Use Them

  Note:  since this article was originally written, the world of software development turned into using environment variables for almost everything.  So the feature was added to Engine Yard.  Neverthele...