Celebrate the weird and wonderful Ruby programming language with us! Everyone is aware of Python in NetSec, but there are a lot of hard working Ruby developers hacking away in this field who deserve more credit and recognition for their efforts. SOFTWARE Metasploit: The worlds most used penetration testing framework. website BeEF: The browser exploitation framework. "Unlike other security framewor

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My RDS migration guide is now out! This is the eBook that I wish existed when I was first tasked with moving the Heroku database to AWS as a developer with limited dev ops experience. More details Here’s what I did: Put your Gemfile on a diet There is a Gem for that… In the Ruby world, dropping in a Gem to solve a problem is usually the “easiest” solution. Apart from other costs, memory bloat is o

WEBrick is the “slowest” webserver in Ruby, how could it possibly be webscale? To answer this question and explore Is Ruby Too Slow For Web-Scale?, we will compare WEBrick to a real piece of “webscale” tech: NGINX. While there might be some faster webservers on the market, is there a case where WEBrick is fast enough? Before we can dig into that question, let’s look at a real world deployment of W

Today, Shopify runs on Rails 5, the latest major version. It’s important to us to stay updated so we can improve the performance and stability of the application without having to increase the maintenance cost of applying monkey patches. This guarantees we would always be in the version maintained by the community; and, that we would have access to new features soon. Upgrading the Shopify monolith

We’ve already learned about the history of Unicode and how it works under the hood. In this final part, we’ll learn the theory and practice of handling Unicode properly. Before we get into practice I’d like to talk a bit about Unicode support in Ruby language. If you’re not a Ruby developer, feel free to scroll past the first chapter. Unicode + Ruby = 😢This header suggests, that Ruby and Unicode

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Answer: The same reasons why it was a framework worth learning in 2004. The more things change, the more they stay the same. While we’ve seen a lot a progress in the JavaScript world, we’ve also seen a regression to the complexity-laden world that Rails offered refuge from in the early days. Bac...

About us Founded in 2008, Phusion creates top of the line server software to power businesses like Apple and Intercom. It’s been a little over a year-and-a-half since we released the first version of Passenger 5, the application server for Ruby, Python, Node.js and Meteor. It brought a large amount of major improvements. Since then we have introduced many more major improvements. To celebrate this

Florian Munz, Co-Founder at Depfu 18 January 2017 Do you remember the time before Bundler existed? That was fun wasn’t it? Bundler was released in 2010 and it’s hard to overstate how important it has become for the Ruby ecosystem. Everyone is using it for their Ruby apps and their Ruby open source libraries. But are you actually specifying your Gemfile correctly? Investing a little bit of time and

Are folks upgrading to Rails 5? Where is the Postgres vs. MySQL battle heading? Are devs embracing Puma and concurrency? If you're curious about the above, you've come to the right place. We collect gems used on the apps we monitor at Scout to assist with debugging issues and to prioritize libraries we want to instrument. This data set, which is across thousands of apps, should be enough to grab g

Included in issue #306 of Ruby Weekly. Regular expressions can be tricky to write and downright impossible to read. They can also be incredibly useful. Striking a balance between power and legibility is achievable. Here are five of the best ways I know to do it. Read More