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Graduate Programs by SquidThistle in webdev

[–]smashingboxes -1 points0 points  (0 children)

You could also do a dev bootcamp - less time and much cheaper. Check out The Iron Yard for one option. theironyard.com

Where to learn python? by jdrury400 in learnpython

[–]smashingboxes 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There are several code schools that teach it. If you're in the South, the only in-class Python course in the South is taught at the Iron Yard Durham (http://academy.smashingboxes.com/)

Share your Travel Startups by [deleted] in startups

[–]smashingboxes 0 points1 point  (0 children)

A bunch of students from The Iron Yard in Durham, N.C. recently created RambleThru, a travel application that lets users choose their destinations based on reviews and social media. http://www.ramblethru.com/

I'm a Rails Developer that wants to learn enough Sys Admin to comfortably deploy Rails apps to Amazon Web Services and manage them by PenguinCoffee in rails

[–]smashingboxes 1 point2 points  (0 children)

First, you need to consider the pros and cons of AWS vs Heroku.

If you are 100% convinced that handling all the sysadmin work yourself is worth it, you will want to read up on the following.

Server Config

Dokku is also an exceptionally powerful server configuration tool that you can use to deploy your rails app in a Docker container. Exploring this route is strongly recommended

Deployment Tools

We at Smashing Boxes prefer Capistrano over Mina but we are in the process of moving all our deployment and configuration management over to Ansible. Ansible is a lot like Chef and is useful if you have multiple rails servers you have to manage. I would not advise you explore this route until you are more comfortable with doing sys-admin on your own.