Git Minutes Podcast Interviews Schneems

Git Minutes Podcast Interviews Schneems

Had a delightful time talking to GitMinutes about workflow, Rails issues, and more. Have a listen and tell me what you think.

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Heroku Engineer Engaged to Ruby

It was a long day when @schneems typed $ git push heroku master, opened his website, and exclaimed "I love Ruby!". Then as if inside of Pee-wee’s Playhouse he heard a voice say: “If you love Ruby so much why don’t you marry her?”. So on December 25th, he got down on one knee with his Grandmother’s engagement ring and proposed to Ruby Ku. She said yes!

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Open Source in your Inbox: Code Triage

"I don’t have time to contribute to open source". But who does? We’re too busy shipping products and open source is so daunting and time consuming. Sure tools and technologies are our livelihood, but there’s just so much there. Even if you’ve got the time - where do you start?

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Anatomy of an Exploit: An In-depth Look at the Rails YAML Vulnerability

> This was originally posted to https://rubysource.com/anatomy-of-an-exploit-an-in-depth-look-at-the-rails-yaml-vulnerability/ however it is giving people "Potential Security Risk Ahead" warnings when visiting. This is a reproduciton of the original contents

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Use GIFs in your Pull Request for Good, not Evil

This weekend I made my OVER 9000 pull request to Rails, that features a demo of the functionality in GIF format. I’ve had a number of people ask the same question “what is your GIF workflow?”. For the detail oriented of you in the crowd, here it is.

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Good, Simple Design

I’ve heard this re-framed again and again by many different programmers from @wycats at Ruby conf to @dhh in his parlay letter:

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JRuby Support Live on Heroku

I’ve been quite lately, thats because we’ve been working on something amazing over at Heroku. So check out:

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Hi There I Wonder What Do You Think About Mongodb And

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Custom Wizard URLs in Rails with Wicked

I wrote this wizard controller library that people seem to really dig called Wicked. It works well to build after signup wizards and to incrementally build objects for the database but there is one thing it didn’t do very well until now: allow you to change the text in your wizard url’s quickly and easily.

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Hacking mruby onto Heroku

If you’re in the Ruby world, you’ve likely heard about mruby, Matz’s latest experimental Ruby implementation. What I bet you didn’t know is that you can run mruby on Heroku right now. As a matter of fact you can run just anything on Heroku, as long as it can compile it into a binary on a Linux box.

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