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Vagrant Virtual Machine with Puppet for Rails
When I first started trying to learn Ruby on Rails, I noticed that there seemed to be a lot of steps, apt-gets, and other hoops and obstacles I had to tackle prior to getting my first “rails server”...
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Critical Rails Security Issue
In January 2013, I was informed from a colleague about a severely critical security hole in nearly all Ruby on Rails versions. Although I’d read about the issue a couple weeks prior, I didn’t think I...
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Auto Generate Factories for your Models
My good friend and colleague DS filled me in on a little trick that I’d like to share. When testing, it’s a good idea to have factories written for each model. Now, if your model is already created,...
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Could Not Parse Yaml, Why!?
Yaml config files are a great way to store static data in your rails application. But there’s a little caveat I experienced today. Observe the following yaml file: dog: poodle husky "golden retriever"...
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