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http://blog.innerewut.de
Jonathan Weiss blogging about Security, Unix, Ruby on Rail, and Agile Software Development
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Recent Posts
Ruby En Rails 2009 Recap
The last past days in Amsterdam for Ruby En Rails 2009 were really great. I arrived on Thursday and had the chance to discuss a possible security vulnerability in Rails I discovered a while back with Yehuda and Mislav during lunch. Afterwards we...
Amazon EC2 HighMemory Instances
Very very nice: 34.2 GB RAM and 68.4 GB RAM instances on EC2 # free -m total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 70007 2205 67801 0 28 595 -/+ buffers/cache: 1...
Webistrano/Capistrano problem with git
Recently I helped a friend debug a problem when deploying with Webistrano/Capistrano. He was using a git repository and used SSH keys for authentication. Every time he tried to deploy he got this error: executing locally: "git ls-remote ssh://...
Ruby on Rails Security
Recently I've been made aware of people inside US Government organizations using my Ruby on Rails Security presentation as an excuse to limit Ruby on Rails adoption and projects inside those organizations. They mandate that applications in Rails s...
Rescue exit
While debugging an unrelated problem in Nanite I've stumbled over this feature in Ruby: You can rescue the call to Kernel.exit. Calling exit will just raise a SystemExit exception that can catched as any other. #!/usr/bin/env ruby begin e...
Fragement Caching Tip
We are in the process of testing the new version of MeinProf.de and crossed a very interesting bug. We are using fragment caching to speed up the serving of the university homepages. So far this is working great and helps a lot with coping with e...
