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Tag: rails

  • A long train snakes around hillside stepped farms in a tropical and mountainous landscape.

    Wikipedia @ 25: Rail transport in Indonesia

    Wikipedia is celebrating its 25th birthday, and today I'm celebrating by discovering what the Argo Wilis is, along with a dive into a rabbithole about rail transport in Indonesia!

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    • Article
    • with an accompanying podcast
    • posted 15 May, 2026
  • Why it is just lazy to bad-mouth Ruby on Rails

    It's inevitable these days: we will see an article proclaiming the demise of Ruby on Rails every once in a while. It's the easiest click bait, like this one from TNW.Now, you may say "another Ruby fanboy." That's fair, but a terrible argument, as it's a poor and common argumentum ad hominem. And on the …

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    • 1 comment
    • posted 4 August, 2017
  • Rails is f*cking boring! I love it.

    Together with a friend I recently built Dropshare Cloud. We offer online storage for the file and screenshot sharing app Dropshare for macOS/iOS. After trying out Django for getting started (we both had some experience using Django) I decided to rewrite the codebase in Rails. My past experience developing in Rails made the process quickβ€Šβ€”β€Šand …

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    • posted 9 May, 2017
  • Image representing post: Too Ruby

    Too Ruby

    If the Ruby programming language were a chef, it would make the best tie dyed cakes in the world. Sadly, it isn't, but it still makes for some mighty "readable" code.

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    • posted 27 February, 2011
  • HttpOnly Session Cookies using ActiveRecordStore in Rails 2.2

    If you're using CookieStore to manage sessions in your Ruby on Rails application, Rails 2.2 provides the great feature that you're now able to use HTTPOnly cookies. These are a great benefit because, for compatible web browsers, they dramatically reduce the risk of a Cross Site Scripting (XSS) attack being able to be used to …

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    • 1 comment
    • posted 29 December, 2008
  • SSL Client Certificate Authentication In Ruby On Rails

    I've been playing with using client-side SSL certificates (installed into your web browser) as a means to authenticate against a Ruby on Rails-powered application. This subject is geeky and of limited interest even to the people who read this blog (with the possible exception of Ruth, who may find herself doing exactly this as part …

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    • 2 comments
    • posted 16 September, 2008
  • Rails Reference

    Bookmarked via del.icio.us: Rails Reference.

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    • of this original
    • posted 10 May, 2006
  • Writing A Calendar App In Rails Vs. PHP

    Some time ago, I wrote a web-based calendar application in PHP, one of my favourite programming languages. This tool would produce a HTML tabular calendar for a four week period, Monday to Sunday, in which the current date (or a user-specified date) fell in the second week (so you're looking at this week, last week, …

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    • 5 comments
    • posted 6 October, 2005
  • Ruby Active Record Associations [PNG]

    Bookmarked via del.icio.us: Ruby Active Record Associations [PNG].

    Understanding has_one, has_many, belongs_to, etc.

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    • of this original
    • posted 5 September, 2005

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