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Presentation: Heroku & Jeweler + Gemcutter

By Ariejan de Vroom | Published: December 11, 2009
A small presentation by Ariejan on two topics: Heroku – What is Heroku and how does it compare to Amazon EC2 and Kabisa’s Hosting Jeweler + Gemcutter – How to use Jeweler to manage your gem and push it to gemcutter
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How to setup Ruby on Rails, Apache and Passenger on Debian Linux

By Harm | Published: December 8, 2009
For this article I’m going to install a single (virtual) server to run a standard Ruby on Rails application. I will be using Apache2 and passenger for the webserver stack and MySQL as a database server. Let’s start by installing Ruby and all tools: # apt-get install build-essential # apt-get install ruby irb ri rdoc libopenssl-ruby ruby1.8-dev # [...]
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Ruby and SSL Certificate Validation

By Ariejan de Vroom | Published: December 4, 2009
If your ruby app is doing SSL, you have probably seen one of the following errors: doc = Hpricot(open("https://www.cert.org/blogs/vuls/rss.xml")) # => /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/net/http.rb:590:in `connect': certificate verify failed (OpenSSL::SSL::SSLError) or warning: peer certificate won't be verified in this SSL session The solution is to make sure ruby has access to the right set of root certificates.
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Giving Love To the Community

By Ludo van den Boom | Published: November 27, 2009
Earlier this month Kabisa attended the Ruby en Rails 2009 conference in Amsterdam. Ruby en Rails is the largest dedicated Ruby and Rails conference in the Netherlands. For the first time in its history Ruby en Rails was a multiple day event. The first day, October 31, was packed with interesting presentations on various Ruby and [...]
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