Install from source using Ansible
Building an Ansbile play that will build a project (in this case Ruby) from source
Using Dead Man's Snitch with Whenever
A quick tip to make it easier to use Dead Man's Snitch with the whenever gem
programming,
ruby,
rails,
Cleaning up a Ruby hash
Hash#clean, a monkey patch to provide easy, Array#map like access to hash values to update them inline.
Skipping blank lines in ruby CSV parsing
How to ignore blank lines when parsing a csv file with ruby's CSV parser.
Looping with Fibers
I needed to loop over a fairly large data set and group it by year and month. In this post I walk through using two Ruby Fibers which communicate between each other in order to do in-loop grouping
How to Add Subscribers to a MailChimp List With Ruby
An example of how to use the MailChimp API and their official mailchimp-api gem to add a subscriber to a mailing list.
ruby,
api,
programming,
Potential security hole authorising modules in CanCan
Just some thoughts on how CanCan didn't work as I expected. Whether design or bug, it's worth checking out how modules are handled.
How to protect downloads but still have nginx serve the files
Protect access to your files in Rails but still have Nginx serve the file efficiently