A customer of mine referred me to an article on Cloud Deployment on Amazon Web Services’ EC2 platform that discussed common security holes users are leaving in their instances. The article, Amazon’s Cloud is Full of Holes, warned that poor practices by AWS users were leaving their applications ripe for attack. I completely understand the [...]

If you enjoy our post, feel free to subscribes to our rss feeds

[This article originally appeared as the cover story Linux Journal Issue #147, published in July of 2006 -- back when I was still just learning Ruby on Rails. -- Kevin Bedell] Kevin: For our readers who are unfamiliar with Ruby and Rails, can you give us a short description of what they are and what [...]

If you enjoy our post, feel free to subscribes to our rss feeds

Here’s a common scenario: You have an attribute that can be a set of specific values, like the status of a transaction that can be ‘processing’, ‘succeeded’ or ‘failed’.  You now want to make it easy to check these values on your model object and you think you might want to create a named scope [...]

If you enjoy our post, feel free to subscribes to our rss feeds

Save to delicious. Sometimes when using Active Record you may want to create a database connection to a database other than the default database specified in your database.yml file. When this happens, the easiest way to do it is to use the Class-level convenience method on ActiveRecord::Base. Like this: Imagine your database.yml entry looks like [...]

If you enjoy our post, feel free to subscribes to our rss feeds