We’re big Engine Yard fans. We also happen to be their clients (both Goplan and Totspot run on their platform), which makes a lot of sense, because they’re a fantastic Ruby on Rails host. So we were pretty happy about their release of Engine Yard Express, a VMware image that simulates their slice environment, so that we can test out our setups locally before moving them into their infrastructure.

It’s pretty helpful stuff if you happen to be offline often when working on things you want to test out in an environment that resembles your final production infrastructure. I’m telling you, these EY guys know their stuff.