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Rails Security Alert 10 Jan 2013 | 11:20 am

Rails has just had a rather nasty security alert, get your application upgraded now. If you know what you are doing, you can follow the instructions inside of the Security Alert notes, if you don’t, t...

Encrypting Another Partition Using FileVault 2 on OSX Lion 7 Aug 2011 | 07:10 am

After installing a second drive with my home folder on it in my MacBook Pro, I noticed that FileVault 2 had only encrypted my main volume. This was a problem, because most of the sensitive data is on...

Installing Home Folder on Second Drive on OSX Lion 7 Aug 2011 | 07:04 am

I have a 15" Macbook Pro, early 2010 model. It had a 500Gb Seagate 7200 RPM Momentus drive in it, and had been serving me well over the past year but I wanted to give it a speed boost, so I purchase...

undefined local variable or method `version_requirements' 1 Jul 2011 | 06:01 am

If you have a Rails 2.x app and hitting this, there is a simple fix while you wait to upgrade to Rails 3. Edit your environment.rb file and inbetween the require ‘boot’ line and the Rails::Initialize...

A New World of Resources 24 May 2011 | 05:04 pm

Last year I attacked a long lost black sheep of the Rails family, ActionMailer. This was because I had a project that needed to use email and I found the current implementation, shall we say, somewhat...

Rails Static Pages 19 Apr 2011 | 08:00 am

Static pages are one of those things that you have to get around to doing for every website. This is how we implemented them on StillAlive to make them maintainable and also cacheable. On pretty much...

Twitter Replacing Rails? So? 10 Apr 2011 | 04:25 pm

Twitter are reportedly moving away from Ruby on Rails. It’s on a lot of people’s tweets and on our Rails Oceania Mailing list. But the real question that should be asked is “So?” Ruby on Rails is a t...

Engine Yard Cloud Backups Generating Zero Length Backups 12 Feb 2011 | 05:55 am

If your backups on EngineYard cloud are zero length, maybe it is a permissions problem. We have a client that uses EngineYard cloud and has more than one application hitting the same database. As pa...

Our Rails Rumble Entry - StillAlive.com 20 Oct 2010 | 01:18 pm

StillAlive.com is our RailsRumble entry, and I am quite happy with it! StillAlive does app monitoring with a twist. Instead of just pinging your server, or checking for a string on a page, you can wr...

Renaming a controller and redirection in Rails 3 1 Oct 2010 | 01:27 pm

I had the situation where I wanted to rename a basic part of the TellThemWhen website, that is, changing the name of “instants” to “notifications”. As this was a major part of the whole website, I had...

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