In case you have an application running under tomcat and want to write your logs to a seperate file using log4j you can use some variables that tomcat is setting up.
Since some time you probably noticed ugly deprecation warning made by mocha if using rspec and rails. Usually they look like this:
To prevent the log files of a rails application to grow without limit you should setup log rotation. There are several ways to do this. Here is a simple solution using logrotate.
If you want to mirror a svn repository via git there is a nice little gem called svn2git available that provides easy setup. Updating your repository is done via svn2git --rebase.
Sometimes you have to rebuild ports due to a library update. But if there are vulnerabilities known for that ports then make will bail out with an error message and refuse to build the port. Instead it gives you the advice to update or deinstall the port which is good advice but sometimes just not possible.
When running rspec you usually have to wait for all tests to be finnished before you can see the failed tests.
If you are using lighttpd to host several php applications via virtual hosts and are using the newrelic php monitoring service then you’ll have noticed that setting the php application name per virtual host does not seem possible at first.