Ruby
Keep Your Gems Updated
I recently went back through my backups recently and found quite a few old abandoned projects. Looking back on the code I see some things I'm impressed with, …
Auditing Heroku SSH Keys
A good friend of mine recently left the organization I work for and the task of resetting our passwords and auditing credentials fell on me. Since we use Heroku …
CarrierWave, S3 and Filenames
This is going to be a real quick post. I'm using the "carrier_wave" gem with "fog" for one of my projects and found that when a file is …
Security Through Obesity
Jeremy Spilman recently proposed changes to how user's hashes are stored in website's and companies databases. This post was originally going to look at some of …
Adding a Table Prefix to DataMapper Tables
So I recently encountered a situation where I needed to define a prefix on the tables used by the "data_mapper" gem. When I went searching I found …
Ruby's XMLRPC::Client and SSL
For the past few days I've been working on a Ruby project that needed to interact with a remote XMLRPC API. This isn't particularly unusual but it was the first …