Using Ruby to Automate Your Life

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Claims that Ruby via Chef recipes automates laptop and server setup: spin up EC2 instances and auto-configure web server, database, users; produce production-like VMs with Vagrant/VirtualBox; install Chrome, RVM/rubies, set desktop background. Example uses ephemeral staging on EC2 spot instances to build over 500 nodes for a few hours at about $20, and shows idempotent, self-healing runs so deployments become git push + Jenkins instead of manual cap deploy, and the recipes converge and work.

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1. 0:00Introduction to Automation
2. 0:54The Cost of Repetition
3. 3:53Introducing Chef
4. 5:24Chef Features
5. 8:59Provisioning and Local Setup
6. 12:20Environment Consistency
7. 15:15Disaster Recovery
8. 16:55Capistrano vs Chef
9. 24:19Automation Demo and Wrap-up

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