BlogFish: Ruby on Rails Security
Recently I've been made aware of people inside US Government organizations using my Ruby on Rails Security presentation as an excuse to limit Ruby on Rails adoption and projects inside those organizations.
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Ruby, Ruby on Rails, and _why: The disappearance of one of the world’s most beloved computer programmers
Nice article to educate your non-geek girlfriend/boyfriend about the joys of programming.
Lightning Talk: Coverage based Test Case Prioritization in Ruby on Rails
For my computer science bachelor's thesis I programmed and evaluated a CLI Test Case Prioritization (TCP) tool for makandra. It has been written as a Ruby Gem and was tested and evaluated against one Ruby on Rails project....
Building and Scaling a Startup on Rails: 12 Things We Learned the Hard Way - Axon Flux - A Ruby on Rails Blog
There are a bunch of basic functional elements to building out a popular Rails app that I've never really seen explained in one place, but we had to learn the hard way while building Posterous.
Rails: Flagging all cookies as secure-only to pass a security audit
Why secure-only cookies used to be necessary
Cookies have an optional secure flag. It tells the browser to not send the cookie f...
MongoMapper for Rails 2 on Ruby 1.9
MongoMapper is a MongoDB adapter for Ruby. We've forked it so it works for Rails 2.3.x applications running on Ruby 1.9. [1]
makandra/mongomapper is based on the "official" rails2 branch [2] which contains commits t...
Postgres: DISTINCT ON lets you select only one record per ordered attribute(s) for each group
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To retrieve only unique combinations of the selected attributes: You can omit rows, where all selected columns are equal with the
DISTINCTstatement. - To retrieve the group wise maximum of certain columns: You can keep only one record fo...
Upgrading Rails 2 from 2.3.8 through 2.3.18 to Rails LTS
This card shows how to upgrade a Rails 2 application from Rails 2.3.8 through every single patch level up to 2.3.18, and then, hopefully, Rails LTS.
2.3.8 to 2.3.9
This release has [many minor changes and fi...
Upgrade from Ruby 1.8.7 to Ruby 1.9.2 on Ubuntu
Note that you cannot currently use Ruby 1.9.2 with Rails 2 applications that use RSpec, so don't upgrade if that is your setup. The rspec-rails gem has a fatal bug that was only fixed for rspe...
Ruby, Rails, Web2.0 » Blog Archive » Great Ruby on Rails REST resources
I have been playing around with RESTful Rails recently. Below is my collection or Rails REST howtos, tutorials and other resources I have found so far.
Introducing RMM, the Rails Maturity Model - Ruby on Rails meets the business world | Google Groups
A couple of Railsconfs ago, Courtenay and I did indeed discuss