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Double Shot #468

And some days, the bugs eat you.

Rails Envy Podcast – Episode #081: 06/05/2009

Episode 81. We’re joined this week by the awesome Corey Haines. This podcast is chock full of news and awkwardness. We do apologize for the sound quality this episode — my one mic had a bit of difficulty picking up 3 people and keeping the levels consistent. Hope you like it!

Upgrade Instant rails to 2.3

Instant rails is a very good package for the new ruby on rails (ror) users. This package provide ruby, rails , mysql and apache with pre configure and ready to run, so user  has to only install the Instant rails and start to build the application.

Instant rails is not upgraded from the long time. It is using rails 2.0 and ruby 1.8.6. So we need to upgrade it manually. There are the few steps which need to follow to upgrade it.

Step 1:

10+ Ruby Rails companies in Pune, India

10+ Ruby Rails companies in Pune, India

Are you looking out for companies in India, working in Ruby, Rails, Merb and / or Sinatra to out-source your projects? Here’s a list of companies in Pune, India working with Ruby and frameworks like Rails, Merb and Sinatra.

Http Digest Auth: Vulnerability in Rails 2.3.1/2

If you are using Ruby on Rails 2.3.1 or 2.3.2,  using http *digest* authentication and setting the username / password via hash, then you will be affected by this vulnerability. This vulnerability allows users to bypass http authentication without a valid password.

Please read the full posting on the Rails Security Group for more details and the appropriate workaround to implement in your code, until the official fix is available in the 2.3.3 release.

multiple hosts/domains and proxied requests in rails

Imagine you have an invoicing application where each client has its own subdomain like http://huberry.ordersapp.com. You'd like to allow clients to use their own domains/uris to access your application like:

http://huberryorders.com
http://orders.huberry.com
http://huberry.com/orders

The proxy gem/plugin solves this problem.

Ruby Best Practices: The Best New Ruby Blog (This Year)

rbp.pngIt's pretty rare I recommend new blogs to follow on Ruby Inside. Not because I don't like them - I link to their posts all the time! - but because it's hard to tell if a new blog is going to keep going and be worth your while.

Case Sensitive Active Record Finds in Ruby on Rails

This was hard to find, so I thought I'd put up a little post.I was making a site, similar to tinyurl.com, where the identifying id in the url string was a sequence of characters (like /jYi1K8c) some lowercase, some uppercase.With MySQL, you can't just do a Item.find_by_pid('jYi1K8c') and get back the right thing, it will get back the first that matches a case-insensitive search. That is, /ab1, /

How we tap the Twitter Zeitgeist for SXSW, Internet Week & More

In March, we built the ground-breaking SXSW Zeitgeist for Pepsico. It's no longer running—SXSW is over, natch—but there are some videos, in case you didn't see it.

Pepsi wanted to "do something cool around Twitter/SXSW" and we delivered the concept, design and execution. (And boots-on-the-ground troubleshooting.)

hey, joe

spec.has_rdoc = false == jackass

(no, this is not directed towards joe o'brien... duh)

Registration Now Open for Essential Javascript | Rails Fire

Registration Now Open for Essential Javascript

Registration is now open for Essential Javascript with jQuery, a one-day, action-packed, fun-filled workshop for everyone that wants to learn how to integrate Javascript into their .NET, Rails, PHP, or straight-HTML web applications.

We’ve secured a great location right in the heart of Chicago’s downtown (right across the street from the Sears Tower, in fact).

If you’ve been wanting to learn Javascript, our friendly, inclusive workshop is the place for you.

Seats are limited, so register today.