Building Ruby 1.9.3 with RVM on macOS High Sierra
If you try to build Ruby 1.9.3 using rvm install ruby-1.9.3-p551, it will barf with compiler errors. The workaround, found here, is to use:
ruby
JWT Basics
JSON Web Token (JWT) have come in to my life. I like them and you will too… Pronounced “jot”, the short version is that they are cryptographically signed blo...
Using Signals to Display Process Status
A couple of posts back, I wrote about how you can get status info out of a long running dd process by sending it a signal. The functionally is something you ...
Getting Uploaded Data Out of AWS S3
OK, so you know how to get data into AWS S3, what about getting it out? Previously, we uploaded entries from an imagined photo contest into a bucket. We sent...
Ruby and IMAP
There’s a really solid, tried and true, Internet wide messaging queue. It’s been around for decades and has first class support in Ruby. What is it? Email. T...
Tunneling to Localhost
When you’re developing Rails apps or pretty much any other framework you can name, you typically work with a server running on localhost. This is all well an...
The Sekrets Gem
I occasionally write about encryption in Ruby, yet somehow I haven’t managed to cover my friend Ara’s Sekrets gem.
Thin with SSL on El Capitan
Hit a bug, couldn’t find the answer, documenting it here for the next person.
In Place File Editing With P̸e̸r̸l̸ Ruby
Ever had to change the URL in 50 files? What do you do?
diceware.rb Revisited
A while back I wrote about Diceware, a system for generating password using dice and a word list. I also include a Ruby script that use virtual dice.
Web-Scale HTTP Tail
Previously while talking features of the HTTP Range header I wrote:
More Fun with the Range Header
In my previous post about codeless APIs I made use the HTTP Range header to download only a portion of the file from a web server or cache (byte serving).
The Map Gem
There’s one Ruby gem that make it into practically every Ruby project I write, my friend Ara’s Map. Really, it’s a coincidence that I know Ara, this gem spee...
Launchy
In my last post about an alias that opened a URL from the command line, I said:
(Symmetric) Encryption with Ruby (and Rails)
I wrote and maintain (though not as attentively as I’d like) a Ruby Gem, Strongbox, which adds Public-key Encryption support to Rails’ ActiveRecord. Simply p...
Luminate Online Server API Gem
As part of the work Indra did for Stand Up To Cancer’s telethon, I need to make use of Convio/blackbaud’s Luminate Online Server APIs. Luminate Online is a w...
Building Ruby 1.8.7 on FreeBSD 10
If you try to build Ruby 1.8.7 with RVM you will see:
Handling 403 Forbidden Login Pages with (Ruby) Mechanize
Instead of having a dedicated login page, some sites return a 403 Forbidden HTTP status code and include the login form in an HTML body of a custom 403 page....
Generating RSA Key Pairs in Ruby
I’ve given a number of examples of using Public-key cryptography in blog posts and in the Strongbox documentation, but I’ve always generated the RSA key pair...
In defense of “unless” (in Ruby and elsewhere)
I recently came across John Nunemaker’s take on using “unless” in Ruby and thought I’d share my two cents.
Encrypting Lots of Sensitive Data with Ruby (on Rails)
Previously I wrote about how to use public key encryption to automatically encrypt data using Ruby (and thus Rails). Because this method can encrypt data wi...
Encrypting Sensitive Data with Ruby (on Rails)
In Encrypting Sensitive Data with Perl I wrote about how to use public key encryption to automatically and securely encrypt information with Perl. This allo...