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Entries from May 2008

Some Ruby Tricks

May 28th, 2008 · No Comments

Here is a list of ruby tricks from RubyInside:
21 Ruby Tricks You Should Be Using In Your Own Code
It is a great list with some new tricks to make your ruby code better.

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A couple of good rails related articles

May 21st, 2008 · No Comments

http://www.igvita.com/2008/05/13/load-balancing-qos-with-haproxy/
http://www.rorsecurity.info/2008/05/21/real-world-csrf-update-your-radiant-now/
http://www.igvita.com/2007/06/05/creating-javascript-widgets-in-rails/

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Tags: code · rails · security · web

A good list of rails plugins from Jim Neath

May 7th, 2008 · No Comments

Jim Neath has posted a good list of plugins for building Social Apps in Rails.  The list of plugins are very useful in any Rails app and I have used many of them.
http://jimneath.org/2008/04/25/building-a-social-network-site-in-rails/

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A CSRF Article

May 5th, 2008 · No Comments

There is a good article about CSRF Attacks at ROR Security.  It discusses a couple different ways that the attack can be executed and how to prevent these.
Here is the link: http://www.rorsecurity.info/2008/05/05/csrf-an-underestimated-attack-method/

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A good tip from Rail Spikes

May 2nd, 2008 · No Comments

A tip about subdomains and store_location: http://www.railspikes.com/2008/5/1/quick-tip-store_location-with-subdomains

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Tags: rails