I'm sorry Ops blog, I know I've been neglecting you lately. It's just I haven't had many projects recently that would fit in with this blog or be worthwhile making a post about. However that's changed a bit since the past weekend.

Although I've been preparing for and busy with a new job, I found some time to develop a small journal-keeping project that I've aptly named [re:mind Journal](http://journal.letterfourteen.com/) that's properly available online in all it's glory. It simply creates a new blank post every night and shoots you a reminder email to fill it in at about 17:00 local time.

It's a Ruby On Rails project that implements a number of nifty gems including [devise](https://github.com/plataformatec/devise) for user registration and authentication, [whenever](https://github.com/javan/whenever) for dealing with scheduled jobs (pushes to cron), [redcarpet](https://github.com/vmg/redcarpet) for Markdown formatting in posts and [rubyzip](https://github.com/rubyzip/rubyzip) that allows me to create a zip file of (temporary) .xml versions of all of a user's posts in case they want to download them.

To get the project running live in a production environment (instead of my dev environment on my laptop) I mostly followed the [How To Deploy a Rails App with Passenger and Nginx on Ubuntu 14.04](https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-deploy-a-rails-app-with-passenger-and-nginx-on-ubuntu-14-04) tutorial on [Digital Ocean](https://www.digitalocean.com/), although I used a server I had pre-existing with them (that carries a number of my projects).

When pushing the project from the dev to production environment I had to make sure to go back and uncomment the `# gem 'therubyracer',  platforms: :ruby` line before running `bundle install`. I also avoided using the `passenger_app_env development;` in my /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/[config] file as I was aiming for a production environment. Once it was all setup I had to go to the app directory, run `wheneverize`, make sure my config/schedule.rb file was correct and then `whenever -w` to push it to cron. From then on it's been smooth sailling.