Tag Archives: rubyonrails

Configuring Phusion Passenger on a 256MB Ubuntu Slice @Slicehost

By Tony | Published: September 10, 2009
I installed Phusion Passenger a few weeks ago to get a production environment up and running for my Rails app. It was super easy to install and felt like magic. I checked off the item on my TODO and moved on. After all it didn’t say “YOUR APP WILL BE SLOW AS [...]
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How to quickly set up a test for Twitter OAuth authentication from your local machine

By Tony | Published: August 17, 2009
Working with API’s such as Twitter from your local machine can be a pain. A problem that comes up is Twitter does not let you set your callback URL to hit your localhost. If you are working with OAuth on your local machine and want to test the user authorization flow, you are screwed. [...]
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Defending Against Attacks With Rails

By Tony | Published: August 4, 2009
A couple weeks ago I presented on Rails security at a local Ruby On Rails meetup. I finally got around to posting the slides online. The presentation covers topics including authentication, hashing, salting, key stretching, white listing, session hijacking, replay attacks, session fixation, cross-site request forgery, cross site scripting, sql injections, other injections, and some [...]
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Simple Time Select for Ruby On Rails Just Got Simpler

By Tony | Published: June 10, 2009
I added a start_hour and end_hour feature to my simple time select. Here are the details from the README: Simple time select also takes a start_hour and end_hour option to be specified in military format (between 0-23). <%= time_select "event", "time", { :default => Time.now.change(:hour => 21), :simple_time_select => true, :minute_interval => 20, :time_separator => "", [...]
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