Articles in category 'rails'

Secure Communication for Rails Applications (3)

User Authentication

This is the third segment in a series dealing with securing the environment of a rails environment. Previously: an introduction, and setting up a certificate authority.

Today, we'll be fleshing out the application that lives...

Secure Communication for Rails Applications (2)

Creating a Certificate Authority

This is the second in a series dealing with securing the environment of a rails environment. If you missed the introduction, you might want to give it a read.

In this segment, we'll create our own certificate authority...

Secure Communication For Web Applications

Using OpenSSL to lock down Apache, MySQL, Passenger, and Rails

This is the first in a series on securing the environment of a Rails application. It will likely see some revision.

Security is hard; there are a lot of moving parts, any number of interacting...

Rails 3: Cascading View Paths

problem: you need to use varying view logic depending on circumstance. you want this to cascade down a view hierarchy, defaulting with the views in app/views.

an example? consider a mobile site deployment. your regular site is all flashy, your...