Dynamic Keys for Strongbox
Previously, Strongbox, my gem for using Public Key Encryption with ActiveRecord, allowed only one key pair for encrypting all of the records for a given Acti...
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Building Emacs.App From Source on OS X Lion
As always, I like building Emacs for my Mac from source. It lets me live on the cutting edge and have tigher control of the version I’m running. If building ...
Octopress Blog Re-Launch
After years of running on Wordpress, today I’m relaunching my blog using Octopress. Octopress is a blogging framework build on top of Jekyll which in turn is...
Legacy Development with Pow
Pow is a zero-config Rack server that makes developing Rack apps (include Rails apps) a snap on Mac OS X.
Deploying “Modular” style Sinatra Apps with Phusion Passenger
There’s plenty of documentation on how to deploy “Classic” style Sintra applications with Phusion Passenger, but it’s not immediately obviously how to deploy...
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...
Compiling Emacs.app on Snow Leopard
UPDATE: Emacs.app builds fine (and has for a while) as a 64 bit application.
Pro Git
Scott Chacon, one of the guys behind GitHub, has released Pro Git, which, as the name suggests, is a new Git book. He’s made it available under the Creativ...
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.