Wicked 1.0.1 Released with Critical Security Fix

If you’re using Wicked, the easy way to build step-by-step wizards in your Rails code please update to Wicked version 1.0.1 immediately a serious security bug was patched. If you do not upgrade, an attacker may be able to view arbitrary files on your server.

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If at First you don't Succeed: Retrying Bundler

What do you do when you fail at a task?

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Explain Shell, from your Shell

If you aren’t massively in love with Explain Shell then you’ve not been on the internet today (or at least following the same people I do on twitter). It’s an easy way to see what a unix command does from a web interface. The web interface is great, but wouldn’t it be cool if you could open it from your command line? If someone gave you a command like tar xzvf archive.tar.gz it would be amazing to be able to run:

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Prepare, Do, Test: Make your Technical Writing Shine

Don’t pump and dump information on your readers: build better community and better view numbers by following the Prepare, Do, Test pattern.

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Specify Different Gemfile while using Bundler

Travis has a great feature of being able to install gems using a custom Gemfile path. This lets you do things like test against multiple versions of Rails very easily. A project that uses this is sprockets-rails.

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Maildown: Write your Rails emails in Markdown

Maildown: Write your Rails emails in Markdown

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Just Wanted To Say Thanks Again For All The Lessons

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Heroku API Demo

Whipped up a quick demo of the Heroku API using Sinatra and heroku-bouncer (heroku’s oauth rack middleware).

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My wedding with Ruby featured in Style Me Pretty

My wedding with Ruby featured in Style Me Pretty

Maybe not programming related, but stil features plenty of “Ruby”. My wedding was recently featured on style me pretty. Check it out:

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