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Setting up simple OmniAuth authentication with Facebook

Monica Olinescu — Wed, 02 Feb 2011 03:18:58 +0000

If you have watched Ryan Bates’ tutorial Simple OmniAuth you probably already know OmniAuth is awesome. Ryan doesn’t go into details about setting up OmniAuth with Facebook so this post has a couple of pointers to help out in that regard. It’s meant as a continuation to the screencast, so if you haven’t seen it [...]

Configuring Nginx and Unicorn

Razvan — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 16:23:45 +0000

I first heard about Unicorn in an interview with 37Signal’s server admin Mark Imbriaco and it made me really curious. There are a few great resources explaining how Unicorn works and a neat benchmark comparing Mongrel, Passenger and Unicorn. I will share my experience playing with Nginx and Unicorn on a Debian Lenny box. Assuming [...]

Handling paperclip attachments with the same name

Monica Olinescu — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 15:57:12 +0000

This quick post is about some Paperclip-related code that I see quite frequently that could cause problems. It’s easy to miss this stuff in development and then get major headaches later. class User < ActiveRecord::Base has_attached_file :photo end class Product < ActiveRecord::Base has_attached_file :photo end The trouble is that by default the attachments will be [...]

Setting up a High Availability Ruby on Rails environment with keepalived, nginx, HA Proxy and Thin on Debian Lenny

Razvan — Sat, 15 May 2010 09:23:01 +0000

Contents Configure Keepalived and Nginx Configure HA Proxy Configure Thin Overview Nginx and HA Proxy have similar functions: they can both be used as reverse proxies and load balancers. In our case Nginx will be the reverse proxy and HA Proxy will be the load balancer. Nginx is great for dealing with SSL encryption, gzip [...]

Building your own Lightbox with Javascript (part 1)

Razvan — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 18:54:17 +0000

See the final result of part 1: Demo Why write your own lightbox? The simple answer is: to learn how it’s done. If you’re going to use if for an image gallery, embed flash and videos or even to load Ajax content you are probably better off using one of the many existing lightbox plugins [...]