Run migrations when deploying to Heroku

We use Heroku for running some of our customers applications. Deploying by a simple git push is great, but running migrations as part of the process have always been a sore point - until now.

Danish Ruby and Rails apps of 2012

While the danish Ruby on Rails community isn’t as big as it should be, we’re far from an inactive bunch.

With help from the Ruby user groups in Copenhagen and Aarhus I’ve compiled this list of danish sites/apps built on Rails and launched (more or less) in 2012.

All lights are green

The following are quotes from an actual email conversation with a potential customer.

I’m no fan of bullshit NDAs, so I’m just sending this and I trust you that this’ll not end up on Twitter or anything

I know quality has its price. […] I don’t like the wheeling and dealing either. If you say it’s your rate, it’s your rate

We would certainly not be against contributing back to the [open source] community

I must close this deal.

Pepper - a Redmine theme

You develop great software. You use Redmine to manage your projects. Your Redmine instance should look at least as high tech and sleek as the software you develop.

That can now be fixed, using my newly released theme, Pepper.

Substance Lab HQ

At the end of last year I moved my company office from one serviced office facility, House of Design to another, House of Innovation.

The move gave me my very own office space for the first time ever. This is how it looks: