Better Whois
whois is a command line tool to look up registration information for domains, things like owner, location, and contact info. WHOIS (all caps) is a protocol f...
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Shell Secrets
Speaking of secrets, here’s how I keep them in the shell. Why do I have secrets in the shell? Typically, they are things like API keys and passwords for web ...
Secret Rails Configurations
Last time, I looked at keeping environment specific configuration using YAML files and Rails.application.config_for. One big issue with this approach is secu...
Custom Configuration for Rails Environments
Previously, I looked at the simply way of creating Rails stages that shared same configuration with Production by simply importing production.rb into the new...
Quick and Dirty Rails Environments
A quick tip — When I’m deploying Rails apps to Staging or Beta I try to keep the configuration as close to Production as possible. I’ve gotten bitten one too...
NGINX SNI
Well, I might as well round out my Server Name Indication (SNI) sort of series by taking a look an nginx. Does your nginx support SNI? You can check by runni...
HAProxy SNI
Last time, I looked at configuring Server Name Indication (SNI) with Apache. It just so happened I needed to set up SNI with the HAProxy Load Balancer last w...
Apache SNI
I covered Server Name Indication (SNI) a while back, but it still surprises me how little people know about it. So, it’s time to look at configuring Apache t...
These Are the Inodes You Are Looking For
Ever gotten a disk full error, only to run df and not see any full disks? After banging you head against the wall for a while, you remember to run du -i and ...
Importing Legacy Data into Your Rails App
Sometimes you have to write a new Rails app for old data. One approach is to keep the old format and carefully craft your ActiveRecord models to work with th...