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Last Updated on November 23, 2020 by Christopher G Mendla
GitHub will provide an alert if it finds vulnerabilities in your repository.
Last Updated on November 20, 2020 by Christopher G Mendla
During my interviews in my recent job search, I’ve seen an alarming number of companies running on Rails 3.x and 4.x. Unless serious work arounds have been applied, these versions have multiple vulnerabilities.
Last Updated on November 18, 2020 by Christopher G Mendla
Updating to Rails 5.2 has a couple of ‘gotchas’.
Last Updated on November 12, 2020 by Christopher G Mendla
InPixio Photo Eraser solved a common problem for me. I have a couple of location blogs. I often need to take photos where unwanted people or objects are in the photos (Like my inlaws.. ooops, just kidding). I was editing unwanted objects out with GIMP (An open source Photoshop work alike). I saw some ads for the InPixio product and decided to give it a shot. It turned out to be a great investment.
I have a Ruby on Rails site that I use as an online portfolio. GitHub released a warning that there were vulnerabilities in Rails and associated gems. I started incrementally upgrading Rails. However, when I tried to push the Rails 5.2 update to production, the site crashed. Here is how I recovered
Last Updated on November 3, 2020 by Christopher G Mendla
The simple command, rake stats will show you how the lines of code are distributed in your Ruby on Rails application. ‘rake about’ will show you the ruby and rails versions, the database engine and some other helpful information.
rake stats
Last Updated on October 22, 2020 by Christopher G Mendla
Sept 2019 – Pretty soon you won’t even be able to trust your toaster. Voice activated toilets and faucets could be used to spy on your conversations and water usage.
Adobe Photoshop will set you back at least 9.99/month. Other plans will cost from $10 to about $80/month. Fortunately there is an open source image manipulation program that is free.
Last Updated on October 21, 2020 by Christopher G Mendla
Rubocop is a code linter for Ruby on Rails. When installed, configured and used properly it ensures that code is formatted properly and will identify some security issues. This post will cover installation and fixing basic auto-correctable errors.
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