Using SSL in Rails 3

There is a problem with AJAX response handling for Rails 3 remote links and forms in Internet Explorer. This problem affects applications still using jQuery 1.4.2.

Find conditions for scopes can be given either as an array (:conditions => ['state = ?', 'draft']) or a hash (:conditions => { 'state' => 'draft' }). The later is nicer to read, but has horrible security implications in some versions of Ru...

On any page accessed with SSL, all Ajax requests must use SSL, or they will fail. To make this happen, all you need to do is include the names of the actions that service the requests in your ssl_required statement.

With SNI, you can have many virtual hosts with HTTPS sharing the same IP address and port, and each one can have its own unique certificate. SNI is supported by all major browsers except Internet Explorer on XP, Safari on XP, wget, Android and Java.

Leads to awesomeness and unicorns when used in production.

Thanks to habits engrained by Rails 2’s link_to_remote and remote_form_for, we expect that Rails 3 would also handle the AJAX response for our remote links and forms. But it doesn’t; it leaves that for you.

XPath matchers can be combined with CSS-selector matchers. This is really useful if not, for example, the content of an element should be matched but the element itself like in the following example. Here a form is used to display data as default ...

To make the RSpec matcher of the authorization solution Consul work with Rspec 2.x read the following blog post.

In case you have sensitive data within your RDS instance, you want to use encrypted connections between your application and RDS instances. If you're using MySQL on RDS, here's what to do:

1. Download the AWS CA file and copy it to the machine yo...

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