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Facebook Just Landed $1.5B; Open Source Alternative Struggles To Raise $10,000
Facebook just raised $1.5 billion at a $50 billion valuation, having secured just south of $2.4 billion since the company was founded.
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No Free Lunch for Ning Users; Still Plenty of Bargains Elsewhere
The social networking platform Ning announced today that it was making some substantial changes to the company. The news, coming just one month after...
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Running rcov with RSpec
I recently wanted to run rcov, the Ruby code coverage tool, on a project tested with RSpec. I think I’d done it once before, but I’d forgotten how....
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New RSS feed
This blog’s RSS feed has changed; please re-subscribe here: http://feeds2.feedburner.com/mhartl. (It might take an hour or two to go live. If it...
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When is it Time to Jump Into Yet Another Social Network?
Dave Taylor is the author of both Ask Dave Taylor.com and the Business Blog at Intuitive.com. You can find him online – and see what social networks...
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Using a temporary branch when doing Git merges
Merging branches in Git is wonderfully easy compared to many other version control tools, but sometimes merging causes problems you’d rather undo....
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Setting up your Git repositories for open source projects at GitHub
Like a lot of projects in the Ruby on Rails world, the Insoshi social networking platform uses Git and GitHub to manage its open source development...
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Using Rails to serve different content to humans and robots
This post answers the question, How do you use Rails to do one thing for robots, and another thing for humans?
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Finding and fixing mass assignment problems in Rails applications
Last week I received an email from Eric Chapweske (of Slantwise Design and the Rail Spikes blog) alerting me to mass assignment vulnerabilities in the...
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Mass assignment in Rails applications
This is a brief review of mass assignment in Rails. See the follow-up post on Finding and fixing mass assignment problems in Rails applications for...
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Six Ways to Create Online Social Databases
There are countless online spreadsheets and word processors these days, but not too many online databases. Sometimes the best way to work with data is...
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A security issue with Rails secret session keys
Like most projects that use Rails 2.1, the Insoshi source code ships with a “secret” string (which lives in environment.rb) needed for the new...
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Running Rails tests with autotest (ZenTest) and RSpec
I recently ran into a problem with autotest (ZenTest) after upgrading to Rails 2.1 and RSpec 1.4.1. Solving it was annoying, so I hope I can save...
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Searching a Ruby on Rails application with Sphinx and Ultrasphinx
We recently switched the Insoshi social networking platform from a Ferret search engine to Sphinx (and Ultrasphinx), due to the well-known problems...
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A Rails 2.1 case study: upgrading the Insoshi social networking platform
I’m happy to announce the release of a new edge branch of the Insoshi social networking platform, which is fully updated with Rails 2.1 support. (The...
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Using Git to pull in a patch from a single commit
Git is awesome at merging and branching, but what if you want to pull in just one patch from a single commit?
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Working around the validates_uniqueness_of bug in Ruby on Rails
The useful validates_uniqueness_of validation in Active Record has a well-known flaw that bit us recently. (Apparently it wasn’t well-known enough....
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Insoshi “weekly” update
This week’s version of Insoshi fixes a significant annoyance, the creation of accounts with duplicate email addresses due to a limitation in the...
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Insoshi social networking platform update
We’ve hit a couple of big milestones here at Insoshi, so we thought now would be a good time for an update on where we’ve been, where we’re going, and...
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