Is the Server Up Yet?
I hate waiting, but I have to do a lot of it. Waiting for servers to restart. Waiting for services to come up. Waiting around for a Yes or a No. To that end ...
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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...
That One Stupid dd Trick and the Ballad of SIGINFO
dd is the *NIX byte copying utility. It’s typically used for copying disks, creating disk images, or initializing disks from images. It can also be using to ...
Uploading Form Data Directly to AWS S3
A couple of posts back, I walked through uploading an image to AWS S3 without the need for a server of your own. This has the advantage of being a fully stan...
Direct to S3 Uploads with AJAX Presigning
Previously, I covered uploading to S3 from a Rails app using a presigned-url. This works just fine, but means the data flows from the visitors computer to yo...
Uploading from Rails to AWS S3 with PreSigned URLs
Last time, I walked through directly uploading an image to an S3 bucket from the browser with no server involved. That last bit is important. If you are usin...
Uploading Images Directly From the Browser to AWS S3
Want to upload an image directly to S3 from the browser? Here’s what you need.
Advanced Ruby IMAP
Previously, I worked through how to get messages from an IMAP server and work with the message headers. Let’s look at extracting data from those messages. A...
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...