deploy:web:disable and Dreamhost

Following on the heels of Twitter on your maintenance page, the other piece of custom setup I needed for this solution to work was making the site swallow all incoming requests while disabled in order to show the maintenance page.  In the past on sites using Nginx+thin/mongrel the setup has been in the nginx configuration [...]


Twitter on your maintenance page

I recently started a new project.  Because the domain was purchased, one of the first acts of business was a, “Coming Soon,” page.  I decided the maintenance/deploy:web:disable page was the perfect solution.  I could put it up in production and leave it off in staging without special code shenanigans.  It would be re-usable for the [...]